Blue Shirts (Canada)

Blue Shirts

Party Flag
Active 1934-1940
Ideology Canadian Nationalism
National Socialism
Clerical Fascism
Leaders Adrien Arcand
Part of National Unity Party

The "Blue Shirts", were a paramilitary organization sponsored by the National Unity Party. 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.

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