List of terrorist attacks in Canada

This is a list of terrorist attacks that occurred in Canada.

[edit] International Terrorism

September 22, 1966 - A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
October 5, 1966 - Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
May 31, 1967: A small bomb explodes at the Cuba Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. The attack is attributed to Cuban Nationalist Action.
October 15, 1967: A bomb explodes at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal.
May 29, 1969: A bomb is placed in the doorway of the Cuban consulate in Montreal, it fails to go off.
July 12, 1971: A small bomb goes off at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal.
April 4, 1972: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
January 21, 1974: A bomb explodes at the Cuban embassy in Ottawa. It is attributed to Orlando Bosch.
September 22, 1976: An explosive device is thrown from a car at the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.

June 23, 1985 - Air India flight 182 leaving Montreal's Mirabel International Airport is blown up mid-flight to London.
May 26, 1986 - An attempt is made in Vancouver to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the Indian province of Punjab
August 28, 1988 - Indo-Canadian Times editor Tara Singh Hayer is shot and partially paralyzed
November 18, 1995 - Newspaper editor Tara Singh Hayer is assassinated for his strident opposition to Sikh militants.

April 8, 1982 - Turkish Commercial Counselor to Canada Kani Güngör is paralyzed after an attack by Armenian nationalists at his Ottawa apartment.
August 23, 1982 - Turkish military attaché to Canada, Col. Atilla Altıkat, is assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Ottawa while sitting in his vehicle at a traffic light.
March 12, 1985 - A group of Armenian terrorists seize the Turkish embassy, killing a Canadian security guard

April 7, 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by an Irish nationalist.
November 25, 1965 - Croatian nationalists bomb the Yugoslavian consulate in Toronto.
January 29, 1967 - The Yugoslavian embassy in Ottawa and the consulate in Toronto are among six Yugoslavian offices bombed in North America.
September 3, 1984 - Montreal's Central Station is bombed, killing 3 people and wounding more than 30. Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly retired American armed forces officer, claims to have been protesting Pope John Paul II's visit to Canada.
April 5, 1992 - The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.

February 13, 1969 - the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring twenty-seven people.
October 10, 1970 - British diplomat James Cross and Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte are kidnapped by the FLQ in Montreal. (The dead body of Pierre Laporte was discovered in the trunk of a car in Montreal on October 17, 1970; Cross was released on December 3, 1970.)
October 14, 1982 - The anarchist group Direct Action (a.k.a. the Squamish Five) bombs a Litton Industries factory north of Toronto that is manufacturing guidance devices for American cruise missiles, ten are injured.

Hamilton, D. et al. (2006). Inside Canadian Intelligence: Exposing the New Realities of Espionage and International Terrorism. Dundurn Press. ISBN 1550026089