Ku Klux Klan

KU KLUX KLAN is a secret anti-Catholic, white-supremacist organization based in the southern US but active in Canada briefly during the 1920s and 1930s. A local of the Klan opened in BC in 1925, headquartered at a VANCOUVER mansion in Shaughnessy Heights once owned by William Tait, a lumber baron. The Klan managed to attract 500 supporters to its first Vancouver meeting and in 1927 claimed a provincial membership of 13,000. It targeted Asian people in particular and called for a complete ban on...

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