Adrien Arcand
Adrien Arcand (1899 – 1967) was a Canadian journalist, fascist and self-proclaimed Canadian führer who led a series of Quebec based far right political movements in the 1930s and 1940s. Arcand published and edited several anti-Semitic newspapers during this period, most notably Le Goglu.The political party he established in 1934, the Parti national social chrétien advocated anti-communism and the deportation of Canadian Jews to Hudson Bay.
At the start of World War II he was arrested and interned for the duration of the war as a security threat and his party, now called the National Unity Party was banned. In the internment camp he sat on a throne built by other prisoners and spoke of how he would rule Canada when Hitler conquered it.1
Arcand ran for the Canadian House of Commons on two occasions. Despite being shunned by mainstream Quebecers in the post-war years he managed to come in second with 29 per cent of the vote when he ran as a National Unity candidate in the riding of RichelieuÃÂVerchères in the 1949 federal election [1] and came in second again with 39 per cent of the vote when he ran as a Nationalist in BerthierÃÂMaskinongéÃÂDelanaudière in the 1953 election. [1]
Arcand never wavered in his belief in Adolf Hitler and, in the late 1950s, became mentor to Ernst Zundel, who became a prominent Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi propagandist in the latter part of the twentieth century.
1 This story is told in Dangerous Patriots: Canada's Unknown Prisoners of War, by William Repka and Kathleen Repka, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1982 (ISBN 0-919573-06-1 or ISBN 0-919573-07-X), in the section by Charlie Murray, who was imprisoned with him for being a union organizer.