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Neil Clifford Carmichael - Canadian Literature

Carmichael was a collectible coin and stamp dealer who owned Carmichael's Stamp and Coin Co., which was located in Toronto. In addition to his comics, Carmichael also published pamphlets about coin collecting (beginning in the late-1950s), as well as ones that focused on UFOs and extra-terrestrials.

Neil Clifford Carmichael was a long-time member of the federal Social Credit Party when he manufactured the 1963 Ontario provincial party schism. Carmichael had run, unsuccessfully, in five separate federal elections between 1953-1963 in Peel, as well as St. Paul's. Carmichael had been ousted by the federal party after the 1963 federal election because of antisemitic comments he had made in March 1963, claiming that the Rothschild family was attempting to purchase all of Canada's mining interests as part of an international Jewish conspiracy. After the schism, Carmichael became the leader of the new Social Credit Action Party and ran unsuccessfully in the provincial election in September 1963.

By the end of 1964, Carmichael was accused of using his party's headquarters as a meeting place and organizational space for the burgeoning neo-Nazi movement in Ontario, which included notorious figures David Stanley and William John Beattie. By 1965, Carmichael had been accused of trying to radicalize Ontario youth into becoming neo-Nazis along with Stanley.