Three FLQ domestic terrorists who kidnapped and murdered Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis were captured on this date in 1970. The three, joined by another, were all charged, convicted and sentenced to federal prison terms.
They had kidnapped Laporte at gunpoint at his home on October 10, 1970 and his body was discovered in the back of a car seven days later.
On October 10, 2010, the 40th anniversary of Laporte’s kidnapping, Quebec Premier Jean Charest unveiled a Montreal monument to Laporte.
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Pierre Laporte/caption
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.