Incident Date:
April 01, 1963
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Lemieux, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Transportation (Other than aviation)(Train/Train Tracks/ Trolley)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/01/1963: During the night of 31 March-1 April, the Canadian National Railway (CNR) tracks were dynamited at Lemieux, a village on the Montreal-Quebec line. The top part of a 25-inch section of rail had been cut off by the explosion. Iron fragments, pieces of wire, a battery, a detonator and a pair of pliers were found beside the rails. The station master heard a loud explosion, but the damage was not discovered until a freight train passed through and noticed a rough spot. In addition, an anonymous telephone call alerted police to the damage, which was repaired about an hour before a special train passed through, carrying John G. Diefenbaker on an election tour from Ottawa to Quebec City. The letters ""FLQ"" had been painted on a nearby barn. The Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) later claimed responsibility for the incident in a mimeographed ""press release""."
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 227."
2) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 22"
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