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Hello Everyone!

Attached, you will find the Bedroom Flyer for Booking Rooms for the 2026 Annual Session. Please note that the Rodeway Inn is not accepting room bookings until January 1, 2026

Also attached is the Banquet Form for the 2026 Sessional Banquet. There were lots of wonderful reports in relation to the Banquet last year and we can only seat a limited number of people due to the size of the Banquet Room. Please make sure you book your tickets early to avoid disappointment. The caterer for 2026 is the same one we had in 2025, so we are expecting another fantastic experience!

You may have received these forms before but I sincerely don’t want you to miss out!

Lodges, Please pass this information to your Lodge Representative to the Annual Session. Lodge Secretaries, you will find the form to report the information for your Lodge Rep on pages P139 and P140 of the 2025 Journal of Proceedings. Please use page P139 to let us know who will be attending or, if your Lodge will not be sending a Rep, please use page P140 to let us know there will be no Rep from your Lodge. We must know either way.

Current Grand Lodge Officers, your form is on pages P141 & P142. Please ensure you register as we only make kits for those who have registered.

Past Grand Masters, your form is on page P143 and P144. Please use page P143 to let us know if you are attending and Page P144 to let us know if you are NOT attending. Please ensure you register as we only make kits for those who have registered.

Past Elective Grand Lodge Officer, your form is on pages P145 and P146. Please use page P145 to let us know if you are attending, and page P146 to let us know if you are NOT attending. Please ensure you register as we only make kits for those who have registered.

Have the very best and brightest of your holiday season! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Seasons Blessings!

john

Here we go folks!

Attached, you will find the Call for Legislation for the 2026 Annual Session and the forms for Notices of Motion and Resolutions.

Please carefully follow the deadlines and format should you wish to submit legislation.

john

From: Elyse Martin <emartin@ioof.com> Sent: November 25, 2025 11:21 AM To: dougjure.inc@gmail.com; accounts@ioof.net; ichadwick@rogers.com; juneandherb70@gmail.com; janicemarshall978@gmail.com; jasedwards1@gmail.com; md2travis@gmail.com; mavolkov56@gmail.com; etdopp@gmail.com; ianthehunter@gmail.com; gbarron@xplornet.ca; judybobmcmahon@gmail.com; pbensonbookkeeping@gmail.com Cc: Garry Hopkins <ghopkins@ioof.com>; Cathie Foley <CFoley@ioof.com>; Jillian Sliter <jsliter@ioof.com> Subject: Holiday Auction & 50/50 Raffle

Good morning,

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Hello Everyone!

I have attached, to this email, the Banquet Form and Bedroom Flyer for the 2026 Annual Session.

Please note that rooms cannot be booked until January 1, 2026!

Please book rooms at the Sessional Hotel only. We need to keep our number of Room Nights up so we can do our best to keep the meeting room prices reasonable. We need to avoid any undue costs so please book at the Sessional Hotel only!

The banquet will be catered by the same people as last year. Last year we had rave reviews of the meal at the Banquet. We are limited as to the number of people we can seat in the banquet room so please get your forms and cheques in as early as possible to avoid any disappointments. A cash bar will be available in the banquet room!

For those registering for the Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Ontario, the Registration forms are in the back of the 2025 Journal of Proceedings.

Lodge Reps: pages 139 & 140

Past Elective Grand Lodge Officers: Past Grand Masters: pages 143 & 144, Past Elective Grand Lodge Officers: pages 145 & 146

Current Grand Lodge Officers: pages 141 & 142

Please keep this information on hand!

Yours in Friendship, Love, and Truth,

Brother John R. Nichols,
Grand Secretary.

Subject: Code of Ontario Odd Fellows Laws, 2025.

Brothers and Sisters, I am attaching the Code of Ontario Odd Fellows Laws to this email. Further explanation will be addressed below.

Our Sovereign Grand Master, Brother Thomas J. Calabrese has also issued a dispensation to us. The explanation for this dispensation immediately follows in what will be “Section #9, of the Grand Secretary’s Report, in our Advance Journal, for the 2026 Annual Session:

Section #9, Dispensation from our Sovereign Grand Master.
The Code updates that we had sent to Sovereign Grand Lodge for approval, last year, were only partially approved. The dues increase, duly passed at the last Annual Session was in dispute due to a typographical error in the Notice of Motion that was received for our Advance Journal.
The matter was brought to my attention by Brother Wayne Geurts, Past Grand Master and I sent the appropriate appeal to the Executive of the Sovereign Grand Lodge. On Monday, November 17, 2025, we received an email dispensation from Brother Thomas J. Calabrese, instructing me to make the appropriate change to the Code of Ontario Odd Fellows Laws, and to make note in the 2026 Advance Journal that the Code Changes had been approved.
This Section of the Grand Secretary’s report will serve to notify everyone that our 2025 Updates to the Code of Ontario Odd Fellows Laws were approved, in their entirety. The appropriate changes to the Code have been made.

As for the Code of Ontario Odd Fellows Laws, You will notice that I have now officially switched the format of the Code to 8 ½ X 11. The old 8 ½ X 5 ½ Codes are now obsolete. I am hereby advising the Lodges, DDGMs, Grand Lodge Officers, PGMs, PELOs, Executives of the Grand Lodge and Rebekah Assembly, etc, that the old codes are now obsolete. You will now receive a new and updated code electronically each year. Any Lodge that wishes to print the code can just buy a binder to place the Code in it and I will send out “update pages” each year from here on out that could be printed and placed in the binder. This will relieve the necessity of sending out Code Updates in paper format and billing the Lodges. This way of doing the code should net a reduction in costs to the Lodges and the Grand Lodge.

Please note, should any legislation be submitted, that the pages numbers in this new format will be the ones to list in the notice of motion or resolution.

Blessings everyone!

john

Hello everyone!

Our Grand Master, Brother Jason Walt, has asked me to forward this information on the Encampment all Degree Day to you!

john

From: Jason Walt <woolerhillbilly@gmail.com> Sent: November 9, 2025 8:14 AM To: Grand Lodge Accounts <accounts@ioof.net> Subject: Fwd: Encampment All Day Degree day

Hello John. Could you email this to all lodges

Grand Master Jason Walt

———- Forwarded message ——— From: Wayne Geurts <wayne.geurts@gmail.com <mailto:wayne.geurts@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2025, 8:10 a.m. Subject: Encampment All Day Degree day To: Ontario Grand Encampment <grandencampmentontario@gmail.com <mailto:grandencampmentontario@gmail.com> >

Hello all,

Ontario Encampment # 11 is planning an all day degree day in Orono Ontario
April 11 2026.

We are having an Odd Fellow from the Kemptville area who wants to take these 3 beautiful encampment degrees..
He is willing to find enough new members in that area to start an encampment.

We will give more specific information closer to the date.

Please reserve this date.

Anyone interested in attending will let me know in advance.
Lunch will be at the hall.
The registration fee will include Lunch
The fee will be set later.

Any Kemptville area Odd Fellows interested in becoming an encampment member, please let me know and I will put you in touch with the Odd Fellow who will be joining.

In Faith, Hope and Charity,

Wayne Geurts,
Grand Scribe

Hello Brothers and Sisters!

Attached is a proclamation from our Grand Master, Brother Jason Walt.

Please feel free to email this Proclamation to your Lodge Membership, and read it at your next Lodge Meeting.

john

From: charles.benson charles.benson <charles.benson@sympatico.ca> Sent: October 20, 2025 2:28 PM To: John Nichols <accounts@ioof.net>; Carson Shulist <raofont@cogeco.net>; Wayne Geurts <wayne.geurts@gmail.com>; Marilyn Wilson <dmgwilson@cogeco.ca>; Bill Crowder <ebcrowder2@gmail.com> Subject: Allan Simpson Educational Fund

Hello All:
I am writing to request your assistance in circulating the attached letter with regard to the Allan
Simpson Educational Fund to all individual lodges in your Branch of our Order.
Your help in making this information available to our membership is greatly appreciated.
Please reach out if you have any questions.
Sis. Carolyn Benson, Bursar
Allan Simpson Educational Fund
Grand Lodge of Ontario – I.O.O.F.

Hello all!

I have been asked to circulate the following email in relation to a 3rd Degree to beheld in Hamilton, on November 5, 2025.

Please follow the details of the email and let Sister Marilyn Wilson know if you plan to go!

john

From: dmgwilson@cogeco.ca <dmgwilson@cogeco.ca> Sent: October 15, 2025 11:25 AM To: accounts@ioof.net Subject: 3rd Degree

Hi John,
Could you please send out an e-mail concerning the conferring of the 3rd Degree.
By request Hamilton District #24 will be conferring the 3rd Degree on Wednesday November 5,2025 at Unity Oddfellows Hall, 64 Wellington Street North, Hamilton ON L8R 1N1. The Degree will start at 7:00 pm. There will be a light lunch afterwards. Cost $10.00 per person. All Oddfellows are welcome. Kindly notify Sister Marilyn Wilson at 905-945-2443 or by e-mail dmgwilson@cogeco.ca <mailto:dmgwilson@cogeco.ca> if you are planning on attending this great night of fellowship.
Thank you John