Adrien Arcand

Adrien Arcand (1899-1967) was a Canadian journalist, fascist and self-proclaimed Canadian fuhrer 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 Gogul.

The political party he established in 1934, the Parti national social chrétien advocated anti-communism and the deportation of Canadian Jews to Hudson's 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. Arcand was shunned in Quebec in the post-war years and fell into obsurity but never wavered in his belief in Adolf Hitler. In the late 1950s he became mentor to Ernst Zundel who became a prominent Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi propagandist in the latter part of the twentieth century.