Reflections from Ross-shire - A dip into the old files from 100, 50 and 25 years ago Masonic activity in county From the newspaper of March 4, 1921 Since the latter part of the war years and ever since the Armistice, free masonry has made enormous strides across the country, with the northern Highlands sharing in the great renaissance of a speculative masonry, and Ross-shire with its small and scattered population, proportionate to its size, participating to a striking degree both in masonic fervency and zeal, and in numerical accretion. The number of lodges has been added to within the Province of Ross and Cromarty. Sir Arthur G R Mackenzie of Coul, Provincial Grand Master, Alexander Naughty J P in Dingwall, P G M depute, had in recent months helped constitute two new lodges, St Martins, Ullapool, No.1217, and at Avoch, Lodge Rosehaugh, No.1216, the latter a recent addition.