Incident Date:
August 25, 1963 03:00
Incident Successful: No
Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Business(Retail/Grocery/Bakery (including cell phone shops and generic shops))
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: "08/25/1963: Shortly after 3 a.m. a police patrol interrupted two men who were in the act of placing bombs in Man Mart, a La Salle department store. They had placed two sticks of dynamite at each of ten columns (two other sticks were also found, bringing the total to 22). The men fled, apparently alerted by lookouts. Although nothing had been stolen, it wasn't clear that the attempt was politically motivated (up to this time the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) had never struck at stores), and police speculated that the bomb attempt might have been a cover for a robbery. The store had been the target of several bomb hoaxes in the previous year."
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. 354"
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