Documented Increase of
KKK Activity in Canada (jan 25, 1920 – may 10, 1930)
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"The Klu Klux Klan and other white nationalists were active forces in Canada that acted in tandem with the state processes that criminalized Blacks and discouraged their migration. By 1922, there were Klan members in Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec (Mathieu 2010: 171) and their membership continued to increase. By the late 1920s, the Klan's western wing had signed up 25,000 members (backhouse 1999: 189). In June 1927, an estimated ten thousand people gathered in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, as Klansmen burned a sixty-foot cross and proclaimed, 'one flag, one language, one race, one religion, race purity, and moral recititude.' (backhouse 1999 189). In 1920 in St. Catharines, Ontario, several newspapers reported that a white mob had set the town hall on fire and attempted to lynch a Black ex-soldier (Mathieu 2010: 171)."
Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 42-43.
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