FLQ Crisis Timeline

OCTOBER CRISIS TIMELINE

By Kevin Park, James Park

Year 1960-1966

Event: The Quiet Revolution: As Jean Lesage was elected, under his command, Quebec went through a various reformation within. The province became more modernized, and has improved ecnomically. It also triggered a growth of nationalism in Quebec.

Importance: French-Canadian Quebec citizens felt that their Frencophone rights were endangered, and there were group of people who would even bear terrorism to stop the violation of Francophone rights.

Picture of Jean Lesage, who lead the Quiet Revolution in Quebec

October 5, 1970

Event: British Trade Commissioner James Cross and the Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte(2 FLQ government officials) were kidnapped.

Importance: This was the trigger of the FLQ crisis

This is a video of all the things

that occured ever since the FLQ

crisis began

October 6,1970

Event: The Prime Minister Peirre

Trudeau and Quebec Premier Robert

Bourassa made an agreement to meet

the 7 demands of the FLQ or else James Cross would be killed.

Importance: This event just shows the power and how threatening the FLQ was.

Wars and Measures Act is one of the reasons the FLQ crisis began

October 7, 1970

Event: Police raids had

begun at dawn and made

30 arrests. Also, Jerome

Choquette, Quebec Prime Minister

of Justice, had been open for

negotiation. However, more threats

came in by the radio stations and had

the FLQ menifesto realease to the

public.

Importance: This event builds up the tension of the FLQ cirsis

Soldiers patroling

the streets

October 9, 1970

Event: As the demands of the FLQ are being met, arguments have been made to the FLQ to secure James Cross' release. The FLQ then gives edvidence that Cross is still alive and follwing with another demand that had to be made.

Importance: The FLQ shows dominance over the government.

In this picture, the slave owner represents the FLQ and the slave represents the government because the government had to do what the FLQ demanded without hesitation.

October 10, 1970

Event: Both Premier Robert Bourassa and Jerome Choquette tried to "play safe" and agreed to provide a safe-conduct out of Canada to the terrorists if they released Cross unharmed. However, Pierre Laporte, Provincial Minister of Labour was kiddnapped at his house by 2 mysterious figures.

Importance: From this, the FLQ crisis took a big leap in importance

Picture of Pierre Laporte

a few months before he was kidnapped

October 12-13, 1970

Event: FLQ demands that if all 23 political criminals are safely realeased and sent to a different country, the hostages will be released. Which was a very conflicting requirement for government. Then government and the representative of FLQ, Robert Lemieux arrange a meeting to negotiate. However, on the end of the day, October 13th, the negotiation fails.

Importance: Made more people including citizens and the governors panic, and the tension still rises. And government gets more pressure to accept FLQ's conditions.

Picture of Rober Lemieux, the lawyer, and the representative of FLQ for the negotiation.

October 16-18, 1970

Event: Pierre Elliot Trudeau, brings in War Measures Act, which gave police full permission to arrest anyone that seems suspicious. Within 48 hours, almost 250 people were aressted, which later are found to be mostly innocent. And on the 18th, one of the hostages, Pierre Laporte was found dead.

Importance: Ultimately, imposition of the War Measures Act caused the death of Pierre Laporte, and this is controversial decision recieved many critism, an example of which goverenment sacrificed citizen rights for a country.

Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada during FLQ crisis. This is the interview after he decleared the impliement of War Measures Act.

December 3, 1970

Event: Finally, the negotiation has ended. Canada guaranteed a safe path for the FLQ members to go to Cuba, in exchange of James Cross.

Importance: This ultimately concluded the FLQ crisis by sending the criminals out of the country, all troops were withdrawn soon.

Picture of James Cross, who were succesfully released.

After the FLQ crisis- 1976

Use of War Measures Act during

the FLQ crisis, ultimately caused political terror, and secretive growth of democratic seperatists. And this ends up in election of the Parti Quebecois.

Symbol of Parti Quebecois, the head of separtists in Quebec