Blue Shirts (Canada)
Appearance
This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2015) |
Blue Shirts | |
---|---|
Leaders | Adrien Arcand |
Dates of operation | 1934-1940 |
Ideology | Canadian nationalism Nazism Clerical fascism |
Part of | National Unity Party |
The "Blue Shirts", were a paramilitary organization sponsored by the National Unity Party in Canada. The organization was largely modelled after the Black shirts of Italy, and the SS of the Nazi Party in Germany. It was outlawed with the enactment of the War Measures Act in 1940.