Edmund Burke Society

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The Edmund Burke Society should not be confused with the entirely unrelated Antient and Honourable Edmund Burke Society, a conservative debating society at the University of Chicago.

The Edmund Burke Society was a far right organization formed by Paul Fromm, Don Andrews, Al Overfield and Leigh Smith in 1967 at the University of Toronto. ^[1] The group was anti-communist and promoted conservative values. However group members soon became involved in violent confrontations with anti-war groups and leftists in Toronto. By the early 1970s the Edmund Burke Society was renamed the Western Guard, an overtly racist organization that had ties with American based racist groups including the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi movements. ^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Nizkor, "into the mainstream"
2. ^ Nizkor, marches to modems

[edit] External links

• The Heritage Front: Into the Mainstream (The Paul Fromm Connection)
• The Heritage Front Affair: Report to the Solicitor General of Canada (Overview of the Extreme Right)
• From Marches to Modems: A Report on Organized Hate in Metro Toronto