John Ross Taylor (1913 – November 6, 1994)[1] was a Canadian fascist political activist and party leader prominent in white nationalist circles.
[5] During the 1960s, Taylor acted as the Canadian representative of the antisemitic National States' Rights Party and was based at his farm at Gooderham, north of Peterborough, Ontario, where he held fascist meetings and published virulent antisemitic and racist literature that led Canada Post to revoke his mailing privileges.
He ran for Toronto City Council in the 1972 municipal election as a candidate for the Western Guard placing last in Ward 11.
From 1970 to 1977, Taylor was once more involved with the Social Credit Association of Ontario as a result of a takeover of the party by Paul Fromm and the Western Guard.
He also established ties to the Ku Klux Klan and attended the International Patriotic Conference held by David Duke that year.
In the 1980s, Taylor was twice found in contempt of court for refusing to comply with a 1979 order by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to end his recorded "White Power" messages on the Western Guard Party's phone line.
Taylor was a fixture during the 1989 trial of accused Nazi war criminal Imre Finta and could be seen carrying lawyer Douglas Christie's books.
In 1993, using the pseudonym "His Excellency J. J. Wills", he co-wrote a book with Robert O'Driscoll titled The New World Order in North America which Bernie Farber described as "the antisemitic ravings of a very confused mind.