American Canadian Grand Lodge

The American Canadian Grand Lodge arose initially from Square and Compass clubs set up by allied servicemen in occupied postwar Germany. Some of these sought charters from home Grand Lodges to operate as masonic lodges. In 1954, the first American lodge sought and was granted a warrant by a native German Grand Lodge, and during the next year, the number had expanded to nine, becoming an "American district" of the United Grand Lodge (now the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Germany (GL AFuAMvD)). Differences in language and ritual, mutually recognised, led to the establishment of first a provincial Grand Lodge, then an independent Grand Lodge of North American Freemasons in Germany.^[1]

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