| Summary: | This article considers a previously unstudied textual artifact, a pamphlet called Facts on Nudism, published in Toronto around 1946. It shows how Canadian nudism was part of a transnational movement that circulated by way of textual culture. It demonstrates how this pamphlet set out to correct fantasies and misconceptions about nudism and how it normalized nudism for a skeptical readership. Ultimately, this article actively documents nudist history in Canada while recognizing that this history exists across porous borders between Canada and the United States. Importantly, this article concludes with reflections on how these fantasies and misconceptions about nudism continue to circulate in our current moment, which is witnessing renewed calls for censorship of so-called obscenity.
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