Grand Master Official Visit to Districts 17 and 25 - Saturday, February 28, 2026
Frank Fowlie
Frank began his career as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He recently retired as a Member of the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Frank Fowlie served as the Independent Mediator with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and as the Ombudsman at the International Organization for Migration. He was the inaugural Ombudsman at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is the agency which administers the global domain name system which serves as the backbone for the Internet. Frank is a mediator with the Green Climate Fund based in Korea.
Frank served as a Capacity Building Consultant with the World Bank in Pakistan, specifically working with the Ombudsman of the Province of Balochistan. Frank was on the Mediation Roster with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. While working of the UN in Dili, East Timor 2000-2001, Frank served as the Chef de Mission for the Individual Olympic Athletes from East Timor at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Frank was awarded the Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal for his work with the UN in East Timor
Frank holds a Doctor of Conflict Resolution from La Trobe University, Melbourne, and is a Fellow with the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. He has a master’s degree from Royal Roads, and undergrad degrees from the Universities of Regina and Manitoba. In 2010 Frank was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Regina Alumni Association. Frank has taught at Royal Roads University and the YMCA International University in Kassel, Germany.
Frank has had a long history of volunteering in sport, and other organizations. He is the Deputy Chair of the Commonwealth Games Federation Ethics Commission where he represents the Americas. He served as Commissioner with Athletics Canada. Frank was Vice Chair of the Canadian Sport Institute, Pacific; served six years as a Director of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada. He was an Olympic Supporter member of the Canadian Olympic Committee and served on the Nominating Committee for the Canadian Paralympic Committee. Frank has served for over 6 years as the BC Hockey Harassment Ombudsman. He was chair of the ADR Institute of Canada’s Online Dispute Resolution Committee.
A thousand years ago, Frank swam for the University of Manitoba Bisons Swim Team. He has a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and taught it for over 20 years before his knees gave out, and as he says, when the parts went when off warranty. He is an ACUC Scuba Instructor Trainer, his passion is underwater photography; and was on the RCMP F Division Dive Team.
Frank joined Three Pillars Lodge in Winnipeg in October 1979. Wherever he has lived across Canada or internationally, Masonic Lodge has been an important of Frank’s life. He has been a lodge member in Manitoba, twice in Quebec, where he was appointed one of the Grand Flag Bearers in 2004, Saskatchewan where he was Master of Radville Ceylon Lodge in 1988-89, and British Columbia, where he has been a member of Goldstream Lodge in Colwood for over 25 years, as well as Centennial King George Lodge in this District. He is an Honourary member of the Duke of Connaught Lodge. He was a member of the Victoria based RCMP Veterans’ Degree Team and frequently acted as its Master. He has been a member of the Grand Lodge Jurisprudence Committee and was a member of the Trial Commission. Frank was a Founder Member of St. George’s Lodge in Vaud, Switzerland. There he was also a Founding Member and is a Past Master of St. George’s Mark Lodge.
He has sat in Lodge in over 35 jurisdictions, in such diverse locations as Darwin-Australia, Haifa-Israel, Nairobi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Paris, Capetown, Edinburgh, and Seoul.
Frank is a Past First Principal of Simon Fraser Chapter. He is active in the Red Cross of Constantine, Scottish Constitution; and the Zabud Council of the Cryptic Rite.
In 2025 Frank was recently awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal for his volunteerism in sport and leadership in Dispute Resolution.