Incident Date:
March 11, 1967 10:30
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: Cuban Nationalists (Miami and Florida)
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Rightist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "03/11/1967: Cuban exiles opposed to the Castro regime claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded at the Fraser Brothers auction house in Montreal. A 40-year old cabinet-maker prodded the package with a plank and was slightly injured when the blast caused him to be thrown about 20 feet. Two employees discovered the suspicious-looking package (a cigar box) at around 10:30 a.m., in the parking lot of the building. The manager said he had received threatening calls and postcards before the bombing from persons who were angry at him for selling furniture imported from Cuba. The Associated Press received a call from an unidentified ""Cuban Nationalist"" from New York City who claimed responsibility, as well as from a Cuban-American from Miami who stated: ""We want to terrorize them [Fraser Brothers]...we try to be humane and place it outside the auction...but next time we may place the bomb inside and blow the hell out of them."" The caller claimed that the Castro government routinely confiscated the belongings of exiles and auctioned them off in Canada through businesses such as Fraser Brothers."
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. 173."
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. 37"
3) RWVIC p. 24
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