Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson

Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870

      Description: Collection collocates fliers, publications, and ephemera from social and political movements on Emory University's campus. Files on Civil Rights movement; Communism on campus; and Conservative responses (Ad Hoc Committee to Defend our Commitment in Vietnam; Emory Conservative Coalition; Young Americans for Freedom), 1964-1970..

      Finding aids:

      http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0248socialandpoliticalaction/

      http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0248socialandpoliticalaction/printable/

      [0469a] Canadian Pamphlet Collection: [3335] [digital collection; pamphlet collection]

      Location: W.D. Jordan Special Collections Library, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 5C4, Canada

      Description: Contains numerous pamphlets issued by the Conservative Party of Canada and the Liberal Conservative Party.

      Websites with information:

      http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/1953

      Finding aid:

      http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/8681

      [0470] Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds, 1936-1992, Fonds 17

      Location: Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, Sherman Campus, 4600 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M2R 3V2

      Description: Fonds consists of the records of the Ontario Region office of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Series 5. Community Relations Committee series. Anti-Semitism Cases sub-series, contains files on the public meeting and demonstration by the Canadian Nazi Party at Allan Gardens, May 30, 1965; John Beattie's involvement in the Canadian Nazi Party; the Canadian Nazi Party (also known as the Canadian National Socialist Party) and its leader John Beattie; John Weisdorf, the Jewish lawyer of John Beattie (leader of the Canadian Nazi Party); Henry Hamilton Beamish, the anti-Semitic leader of the London Britons Society; Andre Bellefeuille, leader of the Canadian National Socialist Party (also known as Canada's Nazi leader and the Canadian Fuehrer); the Canadian Nationalist Party of Canada (also known as the Canadian Nazi Party, the Canadian National Socialist Party, and the National Unity Party of Canada); Wolfgang Droege, a leader of the racist Heritage Front; the anti-Semitic National Unity Front; Paul Fromm, an extreme right-wing leader; anti-Semitic statements and publications by Ron Gostick and the Social Credit party; copies of News Behind the News (National Federation of Christian Laymen); copies of Gostick's publications, The Canadian Intelligence Service and the Voice of Freedom (Mutual Co-operation League of Canada); a flyer of the Christian Action Movement (Ron Gostick was its National Director); Ron Gostick and copies of his anti-Semitic publications, the Canadian Intelligence Service, On Target, and Christian Action Movement newsletters; a Canadian League of Rights meeting invitation and brochure; Charlene Hategan, a member of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front and the first person charged under the hate crime section of the criminal code; Norman Gunn, a Canadian member of the John Birch Society; the hate crime trial of James Keegstra; Western Guard neo-Nazi posters; Kevin Lew, head of a cell of the Ku Klux Klan's National Knight's Network; Rev. A.U. Michelson, a California radio Hebrew Christian missionary who was accused of financial fraud; Viorel Trifa [Valerian Trifa] (accused of being responsible for a 1941 Jewish pogrom in Bucharest); National Federation of Christian Laymen; a publication "Renaissance" of the neo-Nazi Canadian National Socialist Party; Nationalist Party of Canada; National Socialist Underground; George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party; "The New Citizen," an anti-semitic publication published in Rouyn, Quebec; Janos Pall, a former member of the U.S. Nazi Party and a Canadian resident; the Social Credit party; "The Sphinx," an anti-Semitic publication; the Western Guard white supremacist group; issues of the Western Guard's publication, Straight Talk; Ernst Zündel, a Canadian neo-Nazi, Holocaust denier, and writer of hate literature; Paul Hartmann; THOR, an anti-Semitic publication; and neo-Nazis Gilbert Rondeau and John Ross Taylor. Series 5. Community Relations Committee series. Research Records sub-series. Hate Crimes and Hate Literature sub-sub-series [5-4-6], 1938-1978, consists of documentation of hate crimes committed against, and to intimidate, Jews and other minorities. Also included are examples of anti-Semitic hate literature found in posters, magazines, newspaper articles and books all designed to foster fear and/or hatred for Jews. Contains anti-Semitic hate literature published in Canada; correspondence regarding the anti-Semitic activities and publications of Ron Gostick; correspondence related to references to Jews in a book about Social Credit by John Allen Irving (The Social Credit Movement in Alberta, 1959); correspondence and meeting minutes related to Neo-Nazism; clippings related to the anti-Semitic activities of David Stanley; a publication of the Canadian National Socialist Party; correspondence and clippings regarding the controversy over the CBC interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, an American Nazi, and similar documents concerning the subsequent appearance of the Canadian David Stanley; an article from Maclean's Magazine about hate literature; correspondence related to the German Statute of Limitation on Nazi War Criminals; correspondence and reports regarding concern over the rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany; the proclamation of the Canadian National Socialist Party and recruitment literature for its youth movement; a Canadian National Socialist Party bulletin; a copy of the speech delivered by John Beattie at Allan Gardens on May 5, 1968; correspondence, reports, a news release, and newspaper clippings regarding anti-Semitic and anti-Israel material published by A.C. Forrest in the United Church Observer; "Strictly Confidential" reports and correspondence documenting the activities of Canadian neo-Nazis and white supremacists as well as the Canadian Arab Federation; correspondence, an interview transcript, and newspaper clippings regarding the publication of A.C. Forrest's anti-Semitic book The Unholy Land; an obituary of A.C. Forrest.

      Finding aid:

      http://oja.andornot.com/Permalink/descriptions17073

      [0471] Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records, 1738-present, Fonds CJC0001

      Location: Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives, Concordia University, 1590 Docteur Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1C5, Canada

      Description: Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) was founded in Montreal in March 1919 as the democratically elected, national organizational voice of the Jewish community of Canada. CJC ceased operations in July 2011, when it was absorbed into the newly-created Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). The series ZB (General Documentation: Personalia), 1625- , contains files on Jörg Haider, an Austrian right-wing politician who visited Montreal, 2000; Lyndon H. LaRouche, 1987-1990; and Leo Tremblay, founder of La Phalange, a right-wing separatist party, 1968-1969.

      Reference:

      Ross Lambertson, "Activists in the Age of Rights: The Struggle for Human Rights in Canada - 1945-1960" (Ph.D., University of Victoria, 1998), http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ37352.pdf.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.cjhn.ca/en/explore/inventory-of-fonds.aspx

      http://www.cjccc.ca/en/cjccc-national-archives/inventory-of-collections/

      Finding aid:

      http://www.cjhn.ca/permalink/2

      [0471a] Canadian Labour Congress fonds, MG 28, I 103

      Location: Manuscript Division, Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4, Canada

      Description: The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is a country-wide labour organization founded in 1956 through a merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL). Files on Anti-Semitism, Progressive Conservative Party, National Conservative Party, Communist Infiltration of Vancouver Unions, Communism, Communism-Canada, and Taft-Hartley Act. Copies of Ron Gostick, The Architects Behind the World Communist Conspiracy [1959]; United States House of Representatives. Committee on Un-American Activities, Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups (1954); American Federation of Labor, The American Federation of Labor vs. Communism (1946); Joseph A. Beirne, Communism is a Criminal Conspiracy (1954); Catholic Information Society. Pamphlets on Communism No. 1 to 26 (1947); Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Communists