It is with gratitude and humility that this work is dedicated to those craftsmen:
“Alexr. Bare aldar Gorg Rankin Daued Aleson James Walkar John Broke Masones in Lithe; John Hutcheson Robart Thomson James Bigar and Alexr. Bare youngar Masones in the Chanongt and North Lithe,” who more than two and a half centuries ago, and from their own working plans, fashioned and laid the foundation stone of that stately and superb edifice, the Lodge Canongate and Leith, Leith and Canongate, now No.5 on the Roll of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

The above thanks are taken from ‘A history of Lodge Canongate and Leith Leith and Canongate No.5’ by C.M. Douglas, first published in 1949.