Button
This round yellow plastic diaper pin badge features red and black lettering. October Crisis button.
- Accession Number 2022.12.70
- Fabricant / Éditeur Allied Printing
- Materials metal, paper, plastic
- Measurements 5,3 cm
Historical context
On October 16, 1970, Pierre Elliott Trudeau passed the War Measures Act for the first time in peacetime.
Quebec was in the midst of a crisis. Between 1963 and 1970, the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) carried out nearly 200 bomb attacks, killing six people. On October 5, 1970, the FLQ’s Libération cell kidnapped British diplomat James Richard Cross. Five days later, Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped by the Chénier ...
- Accession Number 2022.12.70
- Fabricant / Éditeur Allied Printing
- Materials metal, paper, plastic
- Measurements 5,3 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, donation by Simon Turmel, 2022.012.070
Photo by Michel Julien
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