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Blue Shirts (Canada)

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Blue Shirts
LeadersAdrien Arcand
Dates of operation1934-1940
IdeologyCanadian nationalism
Nazism
Clerical fascism
Part ofNational 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.