. But Boulton’s real career was within the Orange Order, which he seems to have joined in the 1850s. He rose through private and district lodges to become deputy grand master of British North America in

he became deputy grand master of the Orange order in County Tipperary. On 27 July 1807 he married Anna Sparling. Hopper left Ireland in 1821 although he retained land in Tipperary and

the Orange Order at this time, in company with Conservative leaders of the Newcastle District (including George Strange

the Orange order and to politics. Clarke Wallace, the Toronto Globe would observe, “was born to the purple” rank of the Orange order. His

energetic supporter of the local agricultural society, but it was his association with the Orange order that was eventually to propel him into the national spotlight. He had joined the order in 1862 and his

. Ogle Robert Gowan was raised at Mount Nebo and educated at home. The son of an important Wexford Orangeman and a godchild of George Ogle, one of the early grand masters of the Irish Orange Order, he was

manifest a greater desire to become masters of the earth than to secure an inheritance in heaven.” In his last years Bell rose rapidly in the Orange order

receive Sydenham’s backing; nevertheless his boisterous loyalism, his Orange order ties, his links with the Methodists through his marriage, and the Roman Catholicism of his opponent gave him an easy

professionals. Militant Protestant loyalists, the McNeily brothers were active in Orange order affairs. Alexander was an officer and Isaac a member of the

and the Orange order was of central importance in his life. He was elected the first grand master on 21 March 1872, a position he held for 14 years. He continued to play a prominent part in

William Strange, the last two dominated by members of the Orange Order. At the time of the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States he was one of the few senior military officers in Canada West who

strongly identified with Irish Catholic interests. In the mid 1830s he corresponded publicly with William Lyon Mackenzie over the activities of the Orange Order and Tory indifference to what he saw as the

the Orange order in the assembly, Willis regularly presented petitions calling for the incorporation of the provincial lodge. Finally successful in 1875, Willis and the order decided to celebrate the

confirmed as Conservative leader, Cameron, to retain any independent political authority, needed another power base. He had found it in the Orange order. During the 1840s and 1850s the Orange order had gained

Protestantism, Toryism, and the Orange order, presumably because Cooper was influenced by men who were providing him with financial support. After he was appointed clerk, Cooper may have surrendered most of his

” Association. Initially an Anglican, he was a member of Orange Lodge No.212 and the Ancient Order United Workmen. While working in New York for three years in

Gowan, and they had three sons and six daughters. Ferguson had joined the Orange order in 1847 and he became a prominent member. In 1852 he was master of the Loyal Orange Lodge no.1580 and in

Senior, “The origin and political activities of the Orange Order in Newfoundland, 1863–1890” (ma thesis, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St John’s, 1959).

these decades Bowell gained recognition too as a leading member of the Orange order, which he had joined in 1842. In 1870–78 he was grand master of the lodge in British North America, and in 1876, in

was defeated. As justice of the peace, Daly had attempted to ensure order at the meeting by appointing special constables, but after the vote members of the two sides withdrew and began to drink. The