11 Facts About Ron Gostick

Ronald A Gostick was a long-time figure on the Canadian far right and founder of the Canadian League of Rights.

Ron Gostick collaborated with John Ross Taylor and was a mentor to Paul Fromm and an associate of Patrick Walsh, a fellow traveller who worked as research director at the CLR.

Ron Gostick was associated with former Member of Parliament John A Gamble, who worked with Gostick as Canadian leader of the World Anti-Communist League in the 1980s.

Ron Gostick was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to Canadian parents and moved with them to Canada shortly after World War I They established a homestead near Stettler, Alberta and lived there for nine years before moving to Calgary.

Ron Gostick served as one of the five Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary until 1940.

Ron Gostick entered the Canadian Army in 1941 and fought in the Second World War.

Ron Gostick settled in Flesherton, Ontario where he spent most of the rest of his life.

In 1946, Ron Gostick founded the "Union of Electors", a social credit based provincial party that was inspired by the more radical Quebec wing of the Canadian social credit movement, the Union des electeurs.

Ron Gostick began his publishing activities at the same time, beginning to issue the periodical Social Credit in 1947.

Ron Gostick renamed the periodical The Canadian Intelligence Service in 1951.

Ron Gostick died of cancer two days before his 87th birthday.