Incident Date:
August 23, 1963
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: """Résistance du Québec"" cell, Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ)"
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Incendiary (Arson/Fire)
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: 3 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "08/23/1963: A Canadian National Railway passenger shelter on lIe Bigras was set on fire. A milkman extinguished the blaze after chasing a youth from the scene. The letters ""FLQ"" were painted on the shack. Damage was estimated at $200. The incident was the work of three young Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) activists who had set up their own ""Resistance du Quebec"" cell. Two received two-year suspended sentences, the third a one-year prison sentence. "
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. 235."
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