anada, repatriation of all Asiatics at present domiciled in this country, and expropriation of their property…with fair recompense.”(Shades of Right: Nativist and Facist Politics in Canada, p. 42) This resolution was sent to the New Westminster District Trades and Labor Council, the Victoria Chamber of Commerce, and the local provincial and federal governments. The British Columbia Klan continued this practice of petitioning government members for such reforms of Canadian life until at least 1932 (White Hoods, p. 26)The Ku Klux Klan conducted, however, other more stunning activities. On June 18, 1927, the organization requested and received the permission of Vancouver City Council to hold a parade in that city. The parade was widely advertised and ten thousand citizens attended on the streets of Vancouver to cheer the marchers. Of the five thousand Klansmen, dressed in full regalia, which were advertised as participants in the affair, only two hundred appeared. The reason for this was that the police prohibited the wearing of masks shortly before the parade was scheduled, and it might also have been caused by an exaggeration of Klan membership (White Hoods, p. 26-27)It would appear the Maritime Provinces were next in line for the Ku Klux Klan. One of the Klansmen, C. L. Fowler, wrote, “As I see the situation we shall have no trouble at all along the border land. The entire territory from Nova Scotia which is richly and predominantly Protestant and all along Via Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto should be fine territory and should make it possible for us to gather in large numbers at once.” A few weeks later, Fowler again wrote to inform someone, that he had a friend in New Brunswick who was already engaged in the work and who reported that they would have no trouble establishing the Klan as “the men up there are wild for the organization.” (White Hoods, p. 55)The Ku Klux Klan penetrated ot...
