Incident Date:
May 09, 1963 00:45
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- Military(Military Barracks/Base/Headquarters/Check Post)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "05/09/1963: At around 12:45 a.m. a bomb exploded outside one of the rear windows of the Black Watch armoury on Bleury Street. The bomb had been placed in a one-foot gap between the armoury and the storage area of a building next door, and was planted in the face of increased surveillance of armouries. It blew out the entire frame and glass of one window and smashed a number of other windows at the rear of the structure as well as in nearby homes and buildings. No one was injured. The Montreal police bomb squad-called it ""the most powerful explosion we've had yet."" Unusually, the letters ""FLQ"" were not left at the scene. A member of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) received a five-year prison sentence for this offence, to be served concurrent with other sentences."
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. 231."
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. 24"
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