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Between
1999 and 2002 he served as Secretary to the Lodge of Instruction Team with
M.W. Bro. C. Edwin Drew, the Custodian of the Work. Daniels was elected
Grand Junior Warden 2000-2001, and was appointed to the Board of General
Purposes in 2001, and subsequently elected in 2003 and 2005, where he served
as Chairman of the Membership Resources Committee and the Committee on
Masonic Education. He is the Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge of
Quebec. Daniels was elected to the office of Deputy Grand Master at the
Annual Communication in July 2007 and installed and invested as Grand Master
on July 16, 2009.
Daniels is
a member of several Appendant and Concordant bodies in both the York Rite
and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He is Past Principal of the
Kitchener Chapter No. 117, Royal Arch Masons, Past Most Wise Sovereign of
the Guelph Chapter Rose Croix and Past Senior Grand Deacon of the Grand
Council of Allied Masonic Degrees of Canada. He was coroneted Honorary
Inspector-General 33° Supreme Council of Canada in 2005 and was inducted
into the Royal Order of Scotland in 2003. He is also a member of Mocha
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Preston
Springs Chapter No. 208, Order of the Eastern Star. Daniels is a Fellow of
the College of Freemasonry.
Since
1968, he has resided in Kitchener with his wife Brenda. Times of relaxation
and refreshment are spent at their cottage in Muskoka.
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