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Two days later, a bomb exploded near the La Presse building, which was under lockout. In early June 1972, François Lanctôt, Jacinthe Lanctôt, Fernand Roy, and Serge Nadeau were captured. [37] On May 5, the last bomb of the Front de libération du Québec exploded at the Casa d'Italia in Montreal. It was placed by the Reynald Lévesque cell.
Quebec cleared for action and by 8:30 in the light wind the French frigate had opened fire. Within an hour Quebec opened fire after she became parallel with Surveillante. Initially Quebec had the upper hand but Surveillante matched Quebec ' s every move, and from 10 am until 1 pm both sides battered each other furiously. Soon casualties and ...
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 a terrorist group , and was labeled as such by the Canadian government.
From 1963 to 1970, the Quebec nationalist group Front de libération du Québec detonated over 200 bombs. [2] While mailboxes, particularly in the affluent and predominantly Anglophone city of Westmount, were common targets, the largest single bombing occurred at the Montreal Stock Exchange on February 13, 1969, which caused extensive damage and injured 27 people.
In Quebec in 1917, 32 different teaching orders operated 586 boarding schools for girls. At that time there was no public education for girls in Quebec beyond elementary school. The first hospital was founded in 1701. In 1936, the nuns of Quebec operated 150 institutions, with 30,000 beds to care for the long-term sick, the homeless, and ...
The Invasion of Quebec (June 1775 – October 1776, French: Invasion du Québec) was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The objective of the campaign was to seize the Province of Quebec (part of modern-day Canada) from Great Britain , and persuade French-speaking ...
Québec did not have extensive fortifications in 1690, and the whole landward side of the city to the north and west was exposed, particularly at the Plains of Abraham. [4] Count Frontenac returned to Canada for a second term as Governor-General, and ordered the construction of a wooden palisade to enclose the city from the fort at the Château ...
The Quebec expedition, or the Walker expedition to Quebec, was a British attempt to attack Quebec in 1711 in Queen Anne's War, the North American theatre of the War of Spanish Succession. It failed when seven transports and one storeship were wrecked and some 850 soldiers drowned in one of the worst naval disasters in British history.