Rights Associations: First Generation

By the 1950s, most of the rights associations that had arisen during the 1930s and 1940s were largely inactive or defunct. The Vancouver...

The Canadian Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) was the product of Quebec’s Padlock Act , or the Act to Protect the Province Against C...

Also known as National Council on Democratic Rights. For a full history of the CLDL, see: Lambertson, Ross. Repression and Resistance: ...

The Toronto branch of the Canadian Civil Liberties Union was renamed the Civil Liberties Association of Toronto (CLAT) in 1940 and...

The Civil Liberties Association of Winnipeg (CLAW) arose at the onset of the Second World War to protest the suspension of fundamental...

Formed in 1946, the Emergency Committee for Civil Rights (ECCR) was led by a splinter group of communists who were frustrated at the...

The League for Democratic Rights (LDR), a merger of the Civil Rights Union , the newly created Montreal Civil Liberties Union, and...

With the demise of the communist-led Montreal Canadian Civil Liberties Union during the Second World War , an opening existed for the...

The Ottawa Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) emerged in reaction to the espionage commission of 1946. Wilfrid Eggleston was elected...

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