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Cossette-Trudel drove a getaway car in the abduction of British diplomat James Cross, but later renounced violence and went on to direct a series for Télé-Québec documenting Quebec’s Quiet Revolution ....
In November 1837, rebellion stirred in the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (modern-day Ontario and Quebec). In Lower Canada, the rebel group the Patriotes had just won the Battle of Saint-Denis against British forces and, with the news of rebel success, William Lyon Mackenzie called on rural Upper Canadians to follow suit. He distributed a handbill with the title Independence!, which began with the following passage: There have been Nineteen Strikes for Independence from European Tyranny on the Continent of America. They were all successful! BRAVE CANADIANS! Do you love freedom? I know you do. Do you hate oppression? Who dare deny it? Do you wish perpetual peace, and a government founded upon the eternal heaven-born principle of the Lord Jesus Christ? Then buckle on your armour, and put down the villains who oppress and enslave your country put them down in the name of that God who goes forth with the armies of his people. ....
Kidnapping, Murder, Unrest: Quebec s 1970 October Crisis Explained By Marina Manoukian/March 16, 2021 1:46 am EDT In the 1960s, members of the Québécois separatist movement started a bombing campaign against the Canadian government. In 1970, this standoff escalated to a hostage situation. Overnight, people in Québec found themselves essentially living under martial law. The October Crisis gripped the nation as a British diplomat and Québec s Minister of Labour and Immigration were kidnapped and held by the Front de libération du Québec. In response, soldiers and tanks rolled through the streets of Montreal while helicopters flew overhead. Thousands of homes were raided by the authorities and hundreds were arrested, but these actions did little to impede the crisis. Despite being called the October Crisis, the hostage situation lasted until November, and it wasn t until the end of December that most of the kidnappers were apprehended. And in the end, altho ....