Because Ontario’s oddly named community indirectly spawned at least one Nazi — and one of the most notorious. I will never forget you,” wrote Adolf Hitler on Mitford’s presentation copy of Mein Kampf. And purportedly, one of Mitford’s conversational icebreakers with the Nazi leader had been to describe her links to a town called Swastika. “It was there that Sydney conceived their fifth child.”By the count of biographer Michaela Karl, Unity Mitford met with Hitler 140 times between 1935 and 1940. Winston, named for then British Prime Minister (and cousin of Unity Mitford by marriage) Winston Churchill.

Source: National Post January 31, 2017 18:50 UTC