Lieutenant-Colonel Ken MacIntyre
Rocky Mountain Rangers
Essex Scottish Regiment

Communism—Communism is the rule of a godless dictatorship and I will oppose with all the mental, moral and physical strength I posses the treasonable activities of those whose object is to overthrow our government by force and establish a dictatorship controlled from abroad.

(Quoted in Windsor Star, 2 Feb 1949, 6)

Born on 12 December 1914 in Milton, Ontario, Kenneth Wilfred MacIntyre was a Western University graduate and underwriter for a Windsor insurance company. He enlisted as a second lieutenant in the Essex Scottish Regiment on the outbreak of war and served as adjutant overseas. He returned home a captain in April 1942 and became second-in-command of the Oxford Rifles, mobilized for home defence.

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