Tom Freda

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Thomas (Tom) Freda is a co-founder and current National Director of Toronto, Ontario based Citizens for a Canadian Republic, a non-profit, non-partisan organization representing the Canadian republican movement. The organization, founded in 2002, is the main group promoting Canadian republicanism.

The descendant of a Hessian who fought on the British side in the Revolutionary War, he was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the late 1970s, he moved to Toronto to study at Sheridan College Institute and Ryerson University, where he now works in the fields of advertising, marketing, design and photography.

Freda's active involvement with Canadian republicanism began in the 1990's when he established the websites, Republic of Canada Online and Monarchy-Free Canada, which were instrumental in uniting republican activists to form Citizens for a Canadian Republic in 2002.