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KKK history challenges idea Sask. always welcomed newcomers: expert - Saskatchewan - CBC News

19.8.17

KKK history challenges idea Sask. always welcomed newcomers: expert - Saskatchewan - CBC News: Meanwhile, historians north of the border are well-versed in Saskatchewan's own KKK history.

However, Saskatchewan's Klan was different than what existed in the United States because they targeted their beliefs specific to the setting, historian Bill Waiser said.

"They decide to take advantage of existing anxiety," he said. "One Klan organizer said 'we took advantage of the antis in this province.'"

For English-speaking Protestants, the "antis" were the new continental-European immigrants and Roman Catholics because they talked, dressed and worshipped differently.


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