Edmund Burke Society
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- This organization is unrelated to the conservative debating society of the same name associated with the University of Chicago Law School.
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]
