Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2012.020.008.003 |
Object Name |
Program |
Title |
Knights of the Maccabees of the World Provincial Convention |
Description |
Paper program as per title. Pages are stapled together in the centre of the booklet. Exterior cover is beige paper with "Official/Program/Knights of the Maccabees of the World/Provincial/Convention/Held At/Berlin, Ont./February/27 and 28, 1901" printed along the left side. Knights of the Maccabees logo printed in the centre of the front cover with "Willkommen!" printed in the lower right corner. Interior pages contain advertisements for local business, information on the organizing committee and officers of the Berlin Tents, and a program of events. |
Date |
1901 |
History |
The Knights of the Maccabees of the World were founded in London, ON in 1878. The group was a fraternal organization that took its name from the Biblical Jewish group who rebelled against Antichus IV and reconsecrated the defiled temple in Jerusalem. The Maccabees were a benevolent legal reserve society that provided sick and death benefits to their members. Each chapter was known as a Tent, and each Tent contained officers. Their rituals included conferring degrees which involved a ceremony and dramatization of Biblical events associated with the Maccabee rebellion. Tents were found across Canada and in the United States by the early 1880s. |
Search Terms |
Knights of the Maccabees of the World |
People |
Seibert, Levi Starnaman, J. P. Hett, John Emil Honsberger, J. F. Lackner, Henry George Shoemaker, Clara |
Creator |
News Record Print |