October Crisis

http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.Belanger/quebechistory/docs/october/index.htm

The Marianopolis website on Quebec history has an excellent database of primary documents regarding the October Crisis, which include

• The original demands of the FLQ.
• The FLQ Manifesto.
• Letter from Pierre Laporte to Robert Bourassa.
• Letter from Pierre Laporte to his wife.
• Statement by Robert Bourassa regarding negotiations, 15 October.
• Trudeau’s “Just watch me” interview.
• Letters from the Quebec authorities requesting the War Measures Act.
• Text of the War Measures Act.
• Public Order Regulation, October 1970.
• Justice Minister John Turner’s explanations in the House of Commons regarding the War Measures Act.
• Trudeau’s televised statement on the War Measures Act.
• Reaction of the FLQ to the War Measures Act.
• Editorial by Claude Ryan on the War Measures Act.
• Statement by René Lévesque on the War Measures Act.
• Statements by T.C. Douglas, leader of the New Democratic Party, on the War Measures Act.
• Radio message of Mrs. Cross to her husband and the FLQ.
• Public Order Temporary Regulations, November 1970.
• Robert Bourassa on the October Crisis.
• A radical interpretation of the October Crisis.

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To complement his book The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider’s View, William Tetley provides numerous primary documents in English and French on his website:

• Appendix C: The Events Preliminary to the Crisis (in chronological order – 1960 to 5 October 1970) – English text.
• Appendix D: The Crisis Per Se (in chronological order – 5 October 1970 to 29 December 1970) – English text.
• Appendix E: The Aftermath to the Crisis (in chronological order – 1 January 1971 to 2002) – English text.
• Appendix F: General Contestation in Quebec Society (1960-70) – English text.
• Appendix G: Editorial of Jean-Paul Desbiens in La Presse (6 October 1970); Jean-Paul Desbiens, Four Years Later – French texts and English translations.
• Appendix H: The Manifesto of the FLQ (6 October 1970) – French text and English translation.
• Appendix I: Newspaper Opinions (13-17 October 1970).
• Appendix J: The Petition of the Sixteen Eminent Personalities (14 October 1970) – French text and English translation.
• Appendix K: Letters of Drapeau, Saulnier, Saint-Aubin, and Bourassa (15-16 October 1970) – French texts and English translations.
• Appendix L: Proclamation and Regulations of 16 October 1970 under the War Measures Act and the War Measures Act – French and English texts.
• Appendix M: Actions of Students, Dropouts and Professors after the Proclamation of 16 October 1970 and Commentary – English text.
• Appendix N: Legal Opinion to the Parti Québécois Lawyer Pothier Ferland – French text and English translation.
• Appendix O: Minutes of the Parti Québécois National Council (18 October 1970) – French text and English translation.
• Appendix P: Article of W. Tetley in Le Devoir (4 November 1970) and his reply, 18 October 2003, to letter of Guy Bouthillier and Robin Philpot (Le Devoir, 24 October 2003).
• Appendix Q: The Saga of Carole de Vault – English text.
• Appendix R: Article in the Beaver (October-November 2000) – English text.
• Appendix S: Letter of Claude Castonguay, La Presse (4 May 2001) – French text.
• Appendix T: Last Lunch with Trudeau – English text and French translation.
• Appendix U: Riel’s Revolutionary Bill of Rights (1885) – English text.
• Appendix V: Excerpts of the Montreal Annexation Manifesto (20 September 1849) and Signatories.
• Appendix W: Declaration of Independence of Robert Nelson (1838) – French text.
• Appendix X: List of FLQ Members, Supporters or Sympathizers and Members of Related Organizations – English text.
• Appendix Y: The Roles of the Participants in Retrospect – English text.
• Appendix Z: The Place of the Crisis in Quebec and Canadian History – English text.
• Appendix ZZ: Abbreviations of Citations of Texts and Authors Referred To – English text.

Library and Archives Canada: Cabinet Documents on the October Crisis.

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), October Crisis on-line collection

Library and Archives Canada: Strategic Operations Centre.

Library and Archives Canada: Pierre Trudeau Papers.

McMaster University: Archives and Research Collections, FLQ Printed Materials Collection.

Vigile archives (Octobre 1970).

Action: The October Crisis of 1970, directed by Robin Spry.

Black October, directed by Terence McKenna.

Les événements d’octobre, 1970, directed by Robin Spry.

October 1970, a CBC mini-series 2010.

Les ordres, directed by Michel Brault.

Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis, directed by Robin Spry.

CBC Digital Archives.