Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Alberta
Grand First Principals of the Grand Chapter of Alberta
With Chapter Numbers and Dates of Election
+ 1914 Stephen Y. Taylor 9
+ 1915 James Norris Rankin 1
+ 1916 Frederick S. Watson 2
+ 1917 Robert Patterson 2
+ 1918 Andrew R.Dickson 6
+ 1919 Melvin McKenzie Downey 24
+ 1920Norman Thorquil MacLeod 4
+ 1921 Hiram Darling ** 2
+ 1922 George B. MacLeod 2
+ 1923 William Thomas Coote 12
+ 1924 John Edgar Johnson 11
+ 1925 S.H. Middleton 7
+ 1926 Edwin Gardner Ironside 11
+ 1927 William Miller McNab 13
+ 1928 Frederick Shelton Selwood 1
+ 1929 James Robert Flan 9
+ 1930 John William Geddie Morrison 14
+ 1931 James Andrew McGhee 3
+ 1932 Joseph Vincent Follett 9
+ 1933 Archibald West 2
+ 1934 Andrew Davison 11
+ 1935 Walter Edward Mercer 21
+ 1936 Henry Sandilands 25
+ 1937 Charles Henry Minchin 1
+ 1938 Archibald Bonnallie McCurdy 2
+ 1939 Harold William Beddie Bell 21
+ 1940 William Hudson Scott 14
+ 1941 William B. Way 5
+ 1942 John Edgar Rannard 4
+ 1943 Everett Geddes Ellerton 3
+ 1944 Frederick John Hand 1
+ 1945 Thomas John Cumberland 8
+1946 Roy Marvin Lambertson 13
+ 1947 William Arnold Irving 27
+ 1948 Alfred LeRoy Williams 21
+ 1949 James Louis Innes 24
+ 1950 Harold Edward Bentley 9
+ 1951 Alfred E. Peart 13
+ 1952 Frank Mayer 13
+ 1953 Arthur George Acton 9
+ 1954 George Grieve 18
+ 1955 Charles William Lilley 2
+ 1956 Frank Leroy Colwell 9
+ 1957 Bernard Charles Jakeman 13
+ 1958 Arthur Frederick Lissack 17
+ 1959 Charles Murray Laverty 12
+ 1960 Henry Bromley Wilkes 4
+ 1961 Lloyd Bertram McCoomb 13
+ 1962 Norman Scheer 21
+ 1963 William Nelson Martin 9
+ 1964 Lewis John Daniels 24
+ 1965 William Baker Ruff 20
+ 1966 Herbert John McCoy 2
+ 1967 George Denning Chattaway 5
+ 1968 Andrew Colwell Gunning 1
+ 1969 Bert James 36
+ 1970 Alonzo Haines *** 13
+ 1971 Cecil Charles George Duthie 24
+ 1972 Orlough Paul Thomas 2
+ 1973 Fritho Rudger Erick Mulder 5
+ 1974 Philip Jack Kendal 2
+ 1975 John Robert Doherty 9
+ 1976 Carl Thormod Farvolden 36
+ 1977 Ernest Tyler 13
+ 1978 Jack C. Hildebrandt 24
+ 1979 Mervin Robert Harper 39
+ 1980 Don Purnell 12
+ 1981 Jack Dawson Lee 18
+ 1982 Stanley Hugh Scott 11
+ 1983 Edgar Latimer Boyd 18
+ 1984 Allen Lloyd Wadstein 4
1985 Metro Gushaty 24
+ 1986 James Robert Crawford 36
+ 1987 James Manson Bremner 13
+ 1988 Robert Lefley Costigan 5
+ 1989 Norman Frederick Oslund 2
+ 1990 Anton Oscar Aspeslet 4
1991 Ernest Jesse Carr 39
+ 1992 David Neill 13
+ 1993 William A. Brown 24
+ 1994 Peter Fairbridge 13
+ 1995 Lawrence Alexander McKercher 1
+ 1996 Alvin Clarence Edstrom 39
+ 1997 David Alexander Bruce 24
1998 William Wallace Patton 2
+ 1999 Lyle Cameron Dowdell 24
+ 2000 Stanley Harbin 17
2001 Donald Booth Russell 9
2002 Gerald Edward Tetzloff 2
2003 Donald Bryce Dougan 21
2004 Donald A. Gillies 11
2005 J. David Hongisto 5
+ 2006 Terrence Armitage Drolet 17
2007 Eric W. Weigelt 4
+ 2008 James A. Lore 21
2009 Richard G. Glasgow 31
2010 David E. Boone 9
2011 Jerry Werner Kopp 21
2012 Walter J. Watts 40
+ 2013 David C. Switzer 42
2014 Norman E. Downs 1
+ 2015 Marvyn R. Rogers 13
2016 Duncan A. Strachan
+ 2017 John A. Bronius
2018 Keng Wei-Chiew
2019-20 Rod Ponech 2
2021 Gerald Waldern 4
2022 William (Jeff) Knight
2023 James Carswell
2024 Jaime Wong
+ Deceased
** Because of MEC Darling’s poor health, MEC MacLeod served as Acting Grand Z
*** MEC Haines died November 19, 1970 and MEC James filled his term.