Loyal Orange Young Briton Lodge

08/09/2026

We were sent these newspaper clippings of the opening of the Brandon OYB 283 Lodge and a total of 30 young men joined the lodge that October day in 1911.
The other articles were about the dedication of a Memorial Tablet for the young men and Lodge members who were killed in action during WW1 from the Brandon, Manitoba area. In that list was the member who the warrant was issued to, Wor. Brother Adam Petrick.

08/09/2026

We recently received these pictures of the Goldstone Family headstone located in the Brandon Municipal Cemetery in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
The family was looking for some information about the itching on the headstone and the meaning of them. I have described some of the meanings to them.
Loyal Orange Young Briton Lodge, OYB 283 warrant was issued in October 1911 to Brother Adam P. Petrick.
Application was made in May of that same year by 11 members from Brandon, Manitoba listed on the application form.
Records show that there was only 2 OYB lodges in the Province of Manitoba. The other one was at Altamont, which was organized just before OYB 283 was closing. OYB 283 was declared dormant in 1922.
In this family plot is the father Charles and mother Harriet and their son Sidney Lawrence Goldstone who passed at the young age of 27.
There are many headstones and monuments across Canada that have been placed in cemeteries by families or by Lodges. Recognizing on family headstones that a certain Branch of the Loyal Orange Association was very important to those buried there.

08/09/2026

07/27/2026

Thousands of members from the Canadian Orange Young Briton Lodges and Loyal Orange Lodges are still buried overseas and never returned home to their families, friends, homeland or lodges.

07/20/2026

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