Hmm. Maybe there’s more to this Swastika, Ontario business than meets the eye. Noemie Emery writes:

Having just reviewed the letters of the six Mitford sisters for Policy Review, I can tell you that Unity Mitford was conceived in Swastika, Ontario. Another black mark for the town.

Unity was the sister who had a tremendous pash on the Fuhrer and, upon the outbreak of war in 1939, wrote him a farewell note and shot herself in the head. Years ago, Diana Mitford (Lady Mosley) introduced me to her sister Debo (the Duchess of Devonshire) and said “Mark’s from Canada” – at which they both gave what I recall as a knowing cackle. Maybe the Swastika connection explains it. According to this genealogical website:

There is a legend Unity Mitford suggested to Hitler that he adopt the swastika as the Nazi symbol due to the place of her birthplace but this is wholly unsupported.

Pity. If only Unity had been conceived elsewhere in Canada and proposed the Nazis adopt the symbol of Medicine Hat, Alberta or Malignant Cove, Nova Scotia or even Dildo, Newfoundland, the history of the world might have been very different.