Incident Date:
May 29, 1966
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Drummondville, 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- Business(Industrial/Textiles/Factories)
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: "05/29/1966: A bomb exploded at the Dominion Textile mill in Drummondville. 5,000 workers affiliated with the Confederation of National Trade Unions had been off work since March in a strike that was to last six months. No one was injured. A leader of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) later told the court that this and other attacks on the company were intended to show the company that its workers would not allow themselves to be abused. An FLQ member received a seven-year sentence on this and five other counts."
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. 244."
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