A couple of hundred members of the Order of Women Freemasons recently met in Newcastle to attend the October Quarterly Communications Meeting. Members enjoyed the meeting which was followed by an evening meal. Members use the opportunities these meetings offer to spend a weekend catching up with friends and making new friends.  

Seventy years have passed since the beginning of October 1954, when the Grand Master at the time, Most Worshipful Bro Mary Gordon Muirhead Hope and her Deputy Grand Master arrived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to start the work which would launch several Canadian Craft Lodges and later, some higher degrees. This very ambitious period of expansion of the Order into Canada and many visits from the Grand Master and her team would last ten full years.