The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

The KKK was active in most Canadian provinces in the 1920s and '30s, using violence, intimidation and lobbying to promote a white supremacist, Protestant order. Klan members targeted and terrorized Black Canadians, Asian Canadians, Jews, Catholics and, increasingly when the Klan returned in the 1970s and ?80s, Indigenous peoples. While the Klan originated in the American South, leaders adapted their racist aims and tactics to the context north of the border and pledged loyalty to Canada and Britain. The Ku Klux Klan in Canada is the first book to tell the story of the Klan in Canada from its origins to the present. The Klan's kidnappings, festivals and cross burnings, street beatings, church bombings, election campaigns, media manipulation, meetings at secret compounds and a scheme to invade a Caribbean nation are pieces of Canadian history that need to be understood and confronted.