9 March 1846 – 21 April 1918

Born in Portland, Ontario in 1846, Elon Ezra Chipman was a school teacher for some years before joining the publishing trade. In his mid-thirties he took up prospecting, working his way through Colorado, Idaho and Utah before settling in British Columbia. By 1896 he had failed to make his fortune in mining, and he accepted the office of City Clerk for Kaslo, an appointment he held until 1900 when he was appointed as Provincial Government Agent, Gold Commissioner and Stipendiary Magistrate. He held those offices until 1913 when he was then appointed Police Magistrate, an office he held until his death in 1918.
He is interred in Kaslo Cemetery, Block 27, Plot 3.
Raised: c.1870Demitted:
Simpson Lodge No. 157, Singleton’s Corners
Affiliated :
Demitted:
Wilson Lodge, No. 113, Waterford, Ontario
Affiliated:
Worshipful Master: 1875
Secretary: 1876-1880
Doric Lodge No. 23, Parkhill, Ontario
Affiliated: 1894/12/03
Kaslo Lodge No. 25, Kaslo
DDGM: 1896-1897

Robie L. Reid, Historical Notes and Biographical Sketches 1848 – 1935. For further information see Reid, Robie L., “MW Bro. Elon Ezra Chipman“, Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of British Columbia at the Sixty-ninth Annual Communication held at New Westminster on the 20th and 21st days of June 1940. Vancouver : Grand Lodge, 1940. pp. 168-170.