Incident Date:
May 31, 1970 01:57
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Time Fuse)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Private Citizens & Property(Houses/Apartments/Residence)
2- Business
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 3 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "05/31/1970: Five Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) bombs exploded, and two others were dismantled, in Westmount during the early morning, injuring three persons and causing extensive property damage. The devices were connected to timers and were composed of dynamite. The first of these bombs exploded at 1:57 a.m., heavily damaging the offices of Financial Collection Agencies, Montreal Limited, on Sherbrooke (an entire wall of windows buckled. Ceilings caved in on residents of two houses and windows were blown out of Temple Emanu-El as well as homes in a 30 yard range. Neighboring apartments were also damaged. Three people living there were injured). At 4:00 a.m. a bomb exploded causing extensive damage to the private residence of the Chairman of Great West International Equities Ltd., shattering windows of homes in the vicinity. At 4:25 a.m. an FLQ bomb exploded on Belvedere Street (Ripped doors off their hinges, shattered windows. No injuries.). At 4:38 a.m. a time bomb rocked an empty house on Belvedere Road. At 4:59 a.m. an FLQ time bomb rocked the home of an executive of the Montreal-based Doherty Roadhouse and McCuaig Ltd. stockbroking firm (Hugh McCuaig) caused heavy damage to the house including buckling a sidewall, shattering windows, and wrecking the front balcony. At 9:59 a.m. a powerful dynamite time bomb was discovered under an automobile belonging to a Consultant with the United Nations-directed Civil Aviation Organization. At 2:27 p.m, a ten year old boy discovered a bomb, containing 31 sticks of dynamite, behind a home on Roxborough Ave."
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. 271."
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. 67"
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