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FLQ kidnapped JAmes Cross
The kidnappers are disguised as delivery men bringing a package for his recent birthday. Once the maid let them in, they pull out a rifle and a revolver and kidnap Cross. -
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October Crisis
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Start of the October Crisis
When the October Crisis began. -
Broadcast
the FLQ Manifesto in all French- and English-speaking media outlets in Quebec -
Kidnap of Pierre Laporte
The FLQ kinap Pierre Laporte -
Candadian Army sent out
Canadian troops were sent out to Ottawa by request of the federal government. -
Prime Minister Trudeau is interviewed
Trudeau was interviewed by the CBC "Trudeau asks the reporter what he would do in his place. When asked how far he would go Trudeau replies, "Just watch me"." -
René Lévesque and Claude Ryan call for negotiating
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Quebec City
The Government of Quebec, solely responsible for law and order, formally requests the intervention of the Canadian army in "aid of the civil power", as is its right alone under the National Defence Act -
Request
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Pierre Laporte has been executed.
He was strangled, his body stuffed in the trunk of a car and abandoned in the bush near Saint-Hubert Airport, a few miles from Montreal -
subversion and terrorism
both of which are so tragically contrary to the best interests of our people", columnist, politician, and future Premier of Quebec René Lévesque criticizes the War Measures Act -
Police raid the hiding place of the FLQ's Chenier cell
three members escape the raid, Bernard Lortie is arrested and charged with the kidnapping and murder of Pierre Laporte. -
James Cross
After being held hostage for 62 days, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the FLQ Liberation Cell terrorists after negotiations with police -
Troops Stationed
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces that all troops stationed in Quebec will be withdrawn by January 5th 1971 -
Saint-Luc, Quebec
The three members of the Chenier Cell still at large, Paul Rose, Jacques Rose, and Francis Simard, are arrested after being found hiding in a 6 m tunnel in a rural farming community
