Purple Hill Lodge - Established by the Protestant Irish immigrants who brought Orangeism with them when they came to Canada.
These few American lodges were founded by newly arriving Protestant Irish immigrants in coastal cities such as Philadelphia and New York.
A possible origin of the German variant are French Protestant immigrants emigrating to Kurhessen in the 18th century.
During the seventeenth century, Protestant immigrants from Scotland and England arrived, and by order of the English rul- ers the natives were driven out.
The Order was the chief social institution in Upper Canada, organizing many community and benevolent activities, and helping Protestant immigrants to settle.
The Republicans, who had seen the Catholic issue as a way of gaining the votes of Protestant immigrants, were dismayed.
The municipality was officially established in 1874, and was populated by Irish Protestant immigrants.
Reilly was born to Protestant Irish immigrants, the 13th of 16 children, and his family settled in Toronto and ran a grocery store.
Loyalists and Orangemen made up a minority of Irish Protestant immigrants during this period.
Nativist sentiment experienced a revival in the 1890s, led by Protestant Irish immigrants hostile to Catholic immigration.