Incident Date:
April 19, 1963 00:55
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Montreal, 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- Police(Police Buildings (Headquarters/Stations/School))
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: "04/19/1963: At 12:55 a.m. a bomb exploded behind the RCMP headquarters in Westmount. The bomb smashed ten safety-glass windows at the back of the RCMP garages and cracked two others. It broke three windows within the block. No one was injured. The bomb was apparently small, probably comprising one stick of dynamite, and seems to have been tossed there from a car rather than left with a timing device; it hit the window of the garage, failed to go through the safety glass, and fell into a flower bed before exploding. Only ten minutes before the explosion, an anonymous caller telephoned the Montreal Bureau of the Canadian Press to announce that the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) would begin Operation Jean Lesage at 1:00 a.m."
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. 229."
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