Canadian Blue Shirts: Paramilitary

Blue Shirts

Canadian Blue Shirts' leader, Adrien Arcand.
Active:
1934-
Ideology:
Canadian Nationalism
National Socialism
Clerical Fascism
Leaders:
Adrien Arcand
Part of:
National Unity Party
Active Members:
500,000 Civilian Members
1 paramilitary unit

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.