Front de libération du Québec - Wikipedia
The Front de libération du Québec [a] (FLQ) was a militant Quebec separatist group which aimed to establish an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means. [3] [4] It was considered a terrorist group by the Canadian government.
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) - The Canadian Encyclopedia
Aug 11, 2013 · The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) was a militant Quebec independence movement that used terrorism to try and achieve an independent and socialist Quebec. FLQ members — or felquistes — were responsible for more than 200 bombings and dozens of robberies between 1963 and 1970 that left six people dead.
October Crisis - Wikipedia
The October Crisis (French: Crise d'Octobre) was a chain of political events in Canada that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his …
October Crisis: The lasting legacy of the 1970 FLQ manifesto
Oct 8, 2024 · In October 1970, the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) sparked a nationwide crisis by kidnapping British diplomat James Cross and Quebec Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte, whom they later murdered.
The FLQ and the October Crisis - The Canadian Encyclopedia
The crisis was the culmination of a long series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), a militant Quebec independence movement. Felquistes were responsible for more than 200 bombings and dozens of robberies between 1963 and 1970 that left six people dead.
Le Front de Libération du Québec - Marxists Internet Archive
In the early 1960’s Quebec was coming out of the great darkness that was the reign of the long-time Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis. Duplessis’s rule was ferociously anti-Communist, anti-labor, priest-ridden, and featured a brand of nationalism that closed Quebec in on itself.
On October 10, 1970, Quebec’s Vice Premier and Labour and Immigration provincial minister, Pierre Laporte, was tossing a football on his front lawn with a nephew in Montreal. Four men in a car drove by and kidnapped him. This was the last time he would see his family and house, as his assassination happened one week later on October 17, 1970.
Front de libération du Québec — Wikipédia
Le Front de libération du Québec (1963-1972), mieux connu sous le nom de FLQ, est le nom collectif utilisé par plusieurs réseaux clandestins et cellules autonomes qui prônaient l'action directe, souvent violente, pour réaliser ou promouvoir l'indépendance du Québec.
FLQ (FRONT DE LIBERATION DU QUEBEC) - SEVEN YEARS OF TERRORISM
the movement began in late 1962 as a product of socialist and separatist unrest in quebec, canada, universities. IT ATTRACTED YOUNG FRENCH CANADIANS IMPATIENT TO SEPARATE QUEBEC FROM THE REST OF CANADA AND DREW INSPIRATION FROM THE LEFTIST LIBERATION FRONT IN ALGERIA.
Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec - Wikipedia
The following is a timeline of the FLQ, from the founding of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) in the early 1960s to the publishing of the enquiry commission reports in the 1980s. On July 1, Jacques Giroux writes "I am a separatist" on the Sir John A. Macdonald monument in Dorchester Square. [1]