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 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% of the vote when he ran as a National Unity candidate in the riding of Richelieu-Vercheres in the 1949 federal election and came in second again with 39% of the vote when he ran as a Nationalist in Berthier--Maskinonge-Delanaudiere in the 1953 election. 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.