Based first in Winnipeg, then in Toronto, it was led by Chuck Crate and modelled on Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists.
National Social Christian Party) was founded by journalist and self-proclaimed "Canadian Führer" Adrien Arcand.
[1] The CUF split off of the Winnipeg-based Canadian Nationalist Party (CNP), led by William Whittaker.
[2][3] The CNP merged with Arcand's Parti national social chrétien du Canada in 1938, along with fascist groups based in Ontario and Quebec (many of whom were known as "swastika clubs"), to form the National Unity Party of Canada in July 1938.
Arcand would spend the war under guard at the Petawawa military base alongside other 'enemy organization' leaders, while other members of the movement would be similarly interned in areas of New Brunswick.