Keeping Canada British

The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan

By: James M. Pitsula

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Paperback | 1 January 2014

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308 Pages

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22+

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22.23 x 14.61 x 1.91

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The Ku Klux Klan had its origins in the American South in the post-Civil War period. It was suppressed but rose again in the 1920s and spread into Canada, especially Saskatchewan, where it flourished. James Pitsula offers a new interpretation for the appeal of the Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan. He argues that the Klan should not be portrayed merely as an irrational outburst of intolerance and hatred but rather as a populist aftershock of the First World War. Fearing that the hard-won victory to keep Canada British was being undone by massive immigration from Central and Eastern Europe, many Saskatchewanians sought to reverse the trend. With its main goal of keeping Canada British, the Klan is revealed to be a slightly more extreme version of mainstream opinion.

Keeping Canada British tackles a controversial issue central to the history of Saskatchewan and the formation of national identity. In seeking to understand the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in all of its strange complexity, this book shines light upon a dark corner of Canada's past.

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"Keeping Canada British" is a welcome addition to the literature on the Ku Klux Klan in Saskatchewan and on the larger question of a multicultural western Canada in the first third of the twentieth century. Based on an impressive amount of research and written in clear and engaging prose, this work presents an in-depth assessment of the Klan from several key perspectives.
- Bill Waiser, Professor of History and A.S. Morton Distinguished Research Chair, University of Saskatchewan
A book on the Ku Klux Klan in Canada is long overdue. This very important work adds immensely to the field and deserves a wide audience. James Pitsula has successfully added to a growing corpus of work that provides evidence of the thoroughly racial nature and orientation of the Canadian state from its founding to the present day.
- Barrington Walker, Department of History, Queen's University

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