organizing Anarchism has historically been a small, relatively marginal movement in Canada, gaining little support outside of small groups in major cities. Self-organization played an important part in village life during the settling of the West (Saskatchewan, specifically) as the State was distant and infrastructure-related matters such as maintaining roads, building bridges and schools, and organizing local governance and social life needed to be tackled through spontaneous self-organization. Following the suppression of the
Paris Commune, a number of its participants fled to North America, where they established anarchist-communist journals that gained a small circulation in
Quebec. In 1897,
Peter Kropotkin visited the country and recommended that the
Doukhobors, a religious minority facing persecution in Russia, move to the
Canadian Prairies. Anarchists played a role in the Canadian
anti-globalization movement, disrupting the
APEC Canada 1997 summit and the
3rd Summit of the Americas in 2001. Anarchist solidarity with the indigenous rights movement also led to the development of an "anarcho-indigenism", notably by the Mohawk activist
Taiaiake Alfred, who sought to refine anarchist practice for the indigenous context. ==Book fairs==