Incident Date:
September 30, 1979
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: South Slocan, British Columbia Canada
Perpetrators: Sons of Freedom (SOF)
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Incendiary (Arson/Fire)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Transportation (Other than aviation)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 19 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "09/30/1979: Members of the Sons of Freedom (SOF) set fire to a Canadian Pacific Railway equipment shed which contained a railway motor car, ties, and other material. Nineteen SOF were found at the scene, many naked and singing. The fire spread into bushland and was out of control for a time before local people and forest workers extinguished it. The incident came two days before a Freedomite was to be sentenced regarding two arson conspiracy convictions. The 19 SOF Doukhobors were convicted on charges of arson."
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. 286."
2) RCMP Chronology. p. 7.
3) "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. 92"
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