[2] The COCF was incorporated on June 1, 1887,[3] by Canadian members of the latter organization, who believed that certain difficulties with the laws in the province of Ontario could best be obviated by establishing a special jurisdiction of the Order for Canada.
The COCF started with about 150 members, most of whom had become dissatisfied with their membership in the Order of Chosen Friends of Indianapolis.
[1] At the 1923 biennial meeting of the Grand Council of the COCF, Actuary Sydney H. Pipe submitted a plan of readjustment which would place the old members on an equitable basis.
The proposal was to change the basis of the members admitted prior to July 1915; those received since were contributing at rates estimated to be actuarially sound.
In order to provide a future old-age benefit for the members an endowment at age 65, certificate in both the ordinary and hazardous classes was approved.
All payments for disability in the future, either by reason of illness or old-age, were cancelled, and if the members desired that feature they would have to pay additional rates computed by the actuary.