File:EC 2012-07-30.b1 IMG 0003-V.2.jpg

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A Canadian postal drop box (where letter carriers pick up their mail for delivery) in downtown Montreal in the summer of 1971, displaying graffiti of a separatist nature: "FLQ oui" (FLQ yes), approximately nine months after Canada's 'October Crisis'. The Front de libération du Québec (Liberation Front of Quebec, abbreviated in French as FLQ), was a violent secessionist organization dedicated the national independence of the Province of Quebec. In the late 1960s the FLQ conducted several bombings by depositing devices in mail boxes, which typically bore a regal Canadian Coat of Arms, and thus made their point by striking at Canadian and British symbols. In October 1970 the organization kidnapped a British trade official and then a Quebec politician, who was later killed by FLQ members, triggering Canada's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis" class="extiw" title="en:October Crisis">October Crisis</a>.

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current14:28, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 14:28, 4 January 20172,291 × 3,170 (876 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)A Canadian postal drop box (where letter carriers pick up their mail for delivery) in downtown Montreal in the summer of 1971, displaying graffiti of a separatist nature: <i> "FLQ oui" </i>(FLQ yes), approximately nine months after Canada's 'October Crisis'. The <i>Front de libération du Québec</i> (Liberation Front of Quebec, abbreviated in French as FLQ), was a violent secessionist organization dedicated the national independence of the Province of Quebec. In the late 1960s the FLQ conducted several bombings by depositing devices in mail boxes, which typically bore a regal Canadian Coat of Arms, and thus made their point by striking at Canadian and British symbols. In October 1970 the organization kidnapped a British trade official and then a Quebec politician, who was later killed by FLQ members, triggering Canada's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis" class="extiw" title="en:October Crisis">October Crisis</a>.
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