John Ross Taylor

John Ross Taylor (1913 – November 6, 1994) They divorced, and in 1957, Myrtle sued Taylor for custody of their daughter, Wanda.

Fascism Taylor's fascist activities began in the 1920s. In the summer of 1937, Taylor joined with the Quebec-based fascist leader Adrien Arcand and his Parti national social chrétien (later the National Unity Party of Canada). Taylor played a key role in organizing the putative party in English Canada as the National Christian Party and ran in the 1937 Ontario general election in the predominantly-Jewish riding of St. Andrew in Toronto on an antisemitic platform, but withdrew before the election. Soon after, Taylor broke with Arcand and Taylor's National Christian Party formed an alliance with the Canadian Union of Fascists led by Chuck Crate, which Taylor soon joined, becoming the CUF's secretary and organizer. He later said he decided to break with Arcand as Arcand was a Roman Catholic while Taylor, at the time, was an ardent Christian Scientist. At the time, as well, there was a strong anti-Catholic sentiment in Toronto among the largely British Protestant population. In 1965, he was featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's public affairs program This Hour Has Seven Days. During his interview with CBC journalist Larry Zolf, Taylor called for Jews to be exiled to Madagascar.

Social Credit In the 1963 Ontario election, he ran in St. Andrew riding for the "Social Credit Action", a splinter group from the Social Credit Party of Ontario. However, when his political past was reported, the Social Credit Action group dumped Taylor and he ran instead as a candidate of the "Natural Order of Social Credit Organization".

In the 1974 federal election, he was the Western Guard's candidate for the House of Commons of Canada in the riding of Davenport and described himself during an all candidates meeting as "a racist and a fascist".

In the last years of his life, Taylor was active in the Aryan Nations after he moved to Calgary following his release from prison. 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." directed by Kevin Rafferty, which looks at the American neo-fascist movement. The name of the film is taken from the Biblical name Adam which in the Hebrew means to "show blood in the face." Christian Identity advocates claim this is evidence that Adam was a white man.

He died in a Calgary boarding house in 1994.

Electoral record

+ 1963 Ontario general election: St. Andrew, TorontoPartyCandidate Votes Vote % Progressive Conservative Allan Grossman 4,309 43.9Total 9,822