CAMPBELLFORD, Ont. - A small-town Ontario restaurant owner says a Royal Canadian Legion Halloween party awarded first prize to a person in Ku Klux Klan robes leading a man in blackface at the end of a rope.
Mark Andrade says he has never experienced anything as disgusting as what he saw at a Campbellford, Ont., legion on Saturday night.
Andrade says he arrived at the legion for a beer at about 11:30 p.m. -- just as Halloween costumes were being judged.
Andrade, who is black, says the person dressed as a Klansman and the man in blackface won first prize, and he left in disgust.
He says what angered him even more about the incident was that it was a Royal Canadian Legion hosted party and it was legion members who awarded the prize.
Andrade says when he called the legion on Monday to complain he was told hundreds of others had also called in protest.
Legion officials, who could not be immediately reached for comment, reportedly issued an apology Tuesday.
The local Ontario Provincial Police detachment says it has not received any complaints.
