Canada
Le Droit Humain has 8 lodges in Canada.
GWU is a North-American Freemasonic Obedience, with Lodges in the USA and Canada, practicing traditional liberal Freemasonry for men and women
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Grand Orient du Québec, a mixed gender Grand Orient with two lodges in Montréal, working in two different rituals.
Grand Orient de France was founded in 1773. About a century later they got issues with “regular” Grand Lodges when the GOdF dropped the requirement for the belief in something Divine. The GOdF lost its regularity, but not its popularity. What is less known, is that in 2010 the GOdF decided to allow lodges to initiate women. Since then quite a few lodges have voted for this possibility, but not a whole lot initiated any women. According to the GOdF 1.319 women were initiated in 2013. That is not a whole lot against 49.000 members, but on a positive side, there are no less than 1.200 lodges that possibly initiate women; worldwide of course. In Canada there appears to be one lodge, in Montreal.
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The Honorable Order of Universal Co-Masonry (before April 2017 “The Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry”) is a 1994 split-off of Le Droit Humain USA (see there for more history). Nowadays the order has 29 lodges in four countries: USA, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Lodges in Canada and Paraguay are in development.
Grande Loge ANI du Canada founded “in the early 1980s” this mixed gender order has three lodges in the East of Canada and working with the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
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The Order Of Women Freemasons was founded in 1908 as The Honourable Fraternity of Antient Masonry split off of Le Droit Humain. The order was initially mixed, but in the 1920’ies decided to become a women-only organisation which was only made official in 1935. In 1958 the name was changed to “The Honourable Fraternity of Antient Masonry, the order of women Freemasons” to avoid confusion with the only women-only order with a similar name (see below).
The order has over 40 lodges in the UK and is also present in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Spain and Zimbabwe.
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Your website has been compromised with pornography. When I clicked on (Member of Clipsas) on the George Washington Union, and the Grand Orient de France, both links took me to pornography. Please fix this.
Sign, Clipsas again moved their website. Maybe I should just remove the Clipsas links… Thanks for the notification.
Initiated 34 years ago in Continental Europe and having gone through Freemasonry from Apprentice Freemason to Grand Master (and back), I have been living in Canada (B.C.) for several years now, where I have been searching in vain for mixed Freemasonry.
The obligatory belief in a higher being prevents me from joining an active obedience there, since I only believe in the laws of nature. Is there perhaps a possibility to be active as a Freemason in B.C. under those circumstances?
ps: I am still a member of my European lodge/obedience.
ps2: Most of the obediences cited here are known to me from my participation in various CLIPSAS meetings.
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Hi have you found a lodge in BC yet?
Where in BC are you?
Where do the OFW have lodges in Canada?
Other than their website, does anyone know how to contact their Toronto / GTA locations?
https://www.owf.org.uk/_webedit/uploaded-files/All%20Files/locations%20overseas%202.pdf
CANADA
Mississauga
Jordan
Scarborough
Whitby