P.O. Box, 876, Station "B", Ottawa, ON, K1P 5P9, Canada

About PFPC

We are many and we are diverse - which often works against us in dealing with the official bodies. PFPC seeks to add to Paganism's public presence by providing an incorporated, not-for-profit, umbrella group for all Wiccans, who come in many denominations (traditions), or none, in groups, or as individuals (solitaries). As well as for other Pagans, such as the Asatruars (followers of the Old Norse ways), and the Druids. We felt that having a public voice is beneficial, as in being able to offer the support of numbers and an established reputation to Pagan individuals or small groups that encounter discrimination.

The PFPC was formed in 1994 and incorporated in 1998. Our purpose is to improve and protect the reputation of Pagans and Paganism in Canada , by:

-Providing practical, accurate and effective information about Paganism to the public, the media, public bodies and government agencies.
-Providing contact among Pagan groups and seekers.
-Fostering interaction and dialogue among the various branches of Canadian Paganism, both Anglophone and Francophone.

We publish information papers on various Pagan topics to hand out and to post on our web-site. We write of our activities in a number of Pagan publications. We sponsor classes and workshops in the Ottawa area. In the past we had a prison program to facilitate study and ritual for Pagan inmates in a number of federal institutions in Ontario.

We wrote the Pagan and Wiccan material, and solicited the Asatru and Druid material, that is in the federal CSC chaplaincy handbook and we continue to provide chaplaincy services to hospitalized Pagans in Ottawa.

We are listed in the Encyclopedia of Neo-Paganism and Modern Witchcraft , Citadel Press, by Rabinovitch & Lewis, illustrated by PFPC member, Lauren Foster-McLeod.

Our former B.C. board member wrote material that appears on a Government website (Restor. Justice).Another of our board members is a Professor of Religion at the University of Ottawa and has extensive academic connections.

We belong to the Ontario Multifaith Council, a government-funded body that works on ensuring religious service for all faiths for people in Ontario hospitals. We communicate with governmental and other bodies such as schools and the Boy Scouts of Canada, and answer inquiries from individuals. We sponsor classes and workshops, speak at pagan conferences, and we network among Pagan individuals and groups.

We who are board members and staff serve out of love, which makes us amateurs in the best sense. We are not recompensed in any material way; in fact it costs us - another aspect of being amateurs. Nevertheless we must aspire to professionalism, which is to say, making our goals and the good of Paganism primary and setting aside personalities and the personal. In PFPC matters we are high priest/esses, dealing with the needs of others and of this religious movement as a whole, and therefore our board work is a kind of ritual.