The Ku Klux Klan in Canada : a century of promoting racism and hate in the peaceable kingdom
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Formac Publishing Company Limited,
Halifax :
2020.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Port Colborne Library
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
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| Port Colborne | 322.4209710904 BAR | Adult Non-fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
"The Klu Klux Klan came to Canada thanks to some energetic American promoters who saw it as a vehicle for getting rich by selling memberships to white, mostly Protestant Canadians. In Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia the Klan found fertile ground for its message of racism and discrimination targeting African Canadians, Jews and Catholics. While its organizers fought with each other to capture the funds received from enthusiastic members, the Klan was a venue for expressions of race hatred and a cover for targeted acts of harassment and violence against minorities. Author Allan Bartley traces the role of the Klan in Canadian political life in the turbulent years of the 1920s and 30s, after which its membership waned. But in the 1970s, as he relates, small extremist rightwing groups emerged in urban Canada, and sought to revive the Klan as a readily identifiable identity for hatred and racism. Historian Allan Bartley tells the little known story of how Canadians have adopted the image and ideology of the Klan to express the racism that has played so large a role in Canadian society for the past hundred years--right up to the present."--
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Details
- ISBN: 9781459506138
- Physical Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmprint
- Publisher: Halifax : Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2020.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Movie night -- The Klan comes to Canada -- Klan rising (1925) -- Year of the Klan (1926) -- The Canadian Knights (1926-27) -- Moose Jaw moment -- Getting out the vote (1928) -- Ontario burning -- Wild rose country: the Klan in Alberta, 1930s -- Waiting for Hitler (1930-39) -- Klan redux -- Goat worshippers -- Island in the sun -- To Tripoli and beyond, the 1980s and early 1990s -- Le Klan in Quebec, 1990s -- Klan online in the 2000s.