Welcome To West Gate Lodge
A Masonic Lodge located in Streetsville, Mississauga, Ontario
Brotherly Love
We are a fraternity. We meet regularly and enjoy each others company.
Relief
We do community work and support charites
Truth
Ethics are paramount to us. We live by the four cardinal virtues: Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence and Justice
Amazing Things for You
Although we are not a religion, we require that our members believe in a “Supreme Being”. We say “Supreme Being” because we do not mean a particular Christian, Catholic, or Jewish God, but YOUR belief in YOUR interpretation of a Supreme Being. That gives us the foundation on which to help build your character, ethics and outlook, to make YOU better than you are.
What do we do
We try to make the World a better place; for ourselves, our Wives, our Children, our Neighbours
Since 1958 the Blood Donor Committee of the Grand Lodge of Canada in Ontario has worked hard to ensure that all Masons know about the work of Canadian Blood Services and are encouraged to give blood.
“The good news is that one blood donation—in just one hour—can save up to three lives.”
Our commitment to blood donation goes back even further, to 1941, a time when blood couldn’t be stored but had to be donated directly to a recipient during a time of need. In the early ‘40s, most of the donors on a list maintained in Hamilton were Masons. Shortly after a horrific fire at the Moose Hall in 1944, Hamilton Masons worked with the Red Cross to improve the system for recording and contacting blood donors.
Today, the Blood Donor Committee compiles statistics from every lodge on annual donations. Many lodges have a blood donor chairman, and some lodges support or sponsor blood donor clinics.
Learn more about Canadian Blood Services.
– Masonic Child Identification
A sigh of relief for Ontario parents.
No parent wants to think that one of the 55 children who are reported missing to police in Ontario every day could be theirs. MasoniChip, a comprehensive, non-invasive child identification program, started in 2007 to help Ontario parents be prepared for the unthinkable—at a time when seconds can count
“MasoniCh.I.P. is one of the most comprehensive child recovery and identification programs in the nation.
-”The National Center for Exploited and Missing Children
– The MasoniCh.I.P. program consists of five major components: digital photographs, digital video, digital fingerprints, vital child information, and a dental bite impression or intra-oral swab for DNA. The photographs, video, fingerprints, and child description are burned onto a CD that’s compatible with Amber Alert. Combined, this five-part process provides an important, time-sensitive recovery tool for authorities.
The kits are prepared for free at events hosted across the province. It takes only 10 to 15 minutes to collect, process and provide the information to the parent or guardian. The only item retained by MasoniCh.I.P. Ontario is the signed permission slip.
Thanks to the support of Ontario Masons, almost 70,000 kits have been distributed since 2007.
Visit the MasoniCh.I.P. website.
– Bread and Honey Festival
Every year, our Lodge runs the beer and wine tent at the annual Streetsville Bread and Honey festival. The profits we make are shared between our Lodge, our Temple Board, and various charities
– Remembrance Day
As a Lodge, we gather in our Regalia and join the march to the cenotaph in Streetsville to attend the memorial to those who gave their health and their lives so that we may live in the freedoms that we enjoy here in Canada.
This is one of the few times that we appear in public in regalia.
– Christmas in the Square
Every year, our Lodge runs the beer and wine tent at the annual Streetsville Christmas in the Square party . The profits we make are shared between our Lodge, our Temple Board, and various charities
– Bread and Honey Festival
Every year, our Lodge runs the beer and wine tent at the annual Streetsville Bread and Honey festival. The profits we make are shared between our Lodge, our Temple Board, and various charities
– Toys for Kids
As a District, we gather or buy toys for disadvantaged kids.
– Kids Bowling night
Yes, we organise bowling for Kids