In the begin­ning there were a few Masons in Elliot Lake area who talked of form­ing a Masonic Lodge. After numer­ous dis­cus­sions a meet­ing was arranged for April 2^nd, 1958. The meet­ing place for this first Regular group meet­ing was the base­ment of the Bank of Commerce. There were thirty Masons hail­ing from twenty-two dif­fer­ent Lodges. W.Bro. K.H. Stubbs was elected Chairman of the orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee by the mem­bers present.

 On May 4^th, 1958 a meet­ing was held at the res­i­dence of W.Bro. Stubbs with the D.D.G.M. of Nipissing West District. The pur­pose of the meet­ing was to make acquain­tance with the DDGM, and inform him of the inten­tion of form­ing a lodge in Elliot Lake. On May 29^th, 1958, a let­ter from the Grand Secretary arrived with the Petition enclosed to form a Lodge.
 

The first Petitions received were from Mr. Stanley John Hunter and Mr. Garfield Ernest Kyer. We are now begin­ning to oper­ate as a Lodge even though we were using the Penewobikong Lodge in Blind River as our Lodge.

On June 3^rd, 1960 a cheque was for­warded to Peterson & Peterson for the pur­chase of the Alcan Theatre in the amount of $7,718.81 which was to include the cost of the land and build­ing. On June 7^th, 1960 plans for the ren­o­va­tion of the build­ing to use as a Masonic Lodge were sent to Grand Lodge for the perusal of the Building Advisory Committee of Grand Lodge. On July 11^th, 1960 the final papers were signed by the Trustees and the build­ing and land were ours, and on July 14^th, 1960 the Improvement District of Elliot Lake for­warded the plans of the build­ing which con­firmed the pur­chase of the Land and Building as a Masonic Lodge.  This was the first com­mer­cial build­ing in Elliot Lake. On September 7^th, 1960 a let­ter from the Grand Master inform­ing Elliot Lake Lodge No. 698 that they had his per­mis­sion to hold their first Regular Meeting on the night of September 14,1960 pend­ing dedication

The cur­rent Lodge has had many changes; first of all it was the old­est com­mer­cial build­ing in the City of Elliot Lake. Historically speak­ing this is a trea­surer. What went on in this build­ing that was of such impor­tance, it was the Community Hall, a cafe­te­ria, a bar­ber shop, a pool room, the the­atre, a school room and var­i­ous churches held their ser­vices in this building.