1970 in Quebec
This page relates to the year 1970 Gregorian Calendrier.
Chronology of the history of Quebec
Events
16 January 17th: The congress with the cheffery of the Liberal party proceeds in Colisée of Quebec. Robert Bourassa collects 843 votes, Claude Wagner 455 and Pierre Laporte 213. Claude Wagner refuses to join itself the winner.
January 21st: Pierre Bourgault announces his pequist candidature in the county of Draper where it will make the fight with Robert Bourassa.
February 6th: Official launch of Lotto-Quebec at the time of the Carnival of Quebec.
February 9th: Lucien Saulnier becomes the first president of the Urban community of Montreal.
March 4th: The budget 1970-1971 is estimated at nearly $4 billion.
March 12th: Jean-Jacques Bertrand announces general elections for on April 29th.
March 22nd: Camil Samson is selected chief of the Ralliement creditist in spite of the support of Réal Caouette with Yvon Dupuis.
April 3rd: Robert Bourassa promises 100,000 employment before the end of its first mandate.
April 27th: The media announce that 9 trucks of Brinks filled of transferable securities and kept by 30 armed police officers left the head office of the Royal Trust for Toronto. It is the Coup of Brinks , of which the goal is to make fear with the voters for not that they vote PQ.
April 29th: PLQ gains the election with 45% of the vote and 71 of the 108 counties. The PQ, with 23% of the vote, obtains only 7 counties. The National union undergoes the rout: 17% of the vote, but the 17 counties give him the official opposition. The Rallying creditist, with 11% of the votes, obtains 11 counties.
May 5th: Rene Lévesque announces that it preserves the presidency of the PQ. He entrusts to Camille Laurin the role of chief of the party in Room and to Robert Burns that of leader.
May 12th: Montreal is retained like site of the Olympic Games of 1976.
May 12th: The government Bourassa is sworn in: Robert Bourassa preserves the post of minister of Finances. Its principal ministers are Pierre Laporte (Work and Immigration), Claude Castonguay (Health and Family and Wellbeing), Jerome Choquette (Justice and Financial institutions), Gerard D. Lévesque (intergovernmental Businesses) and Guy Saint-Pierre (Education).
May 15th: Jean Drapeau promises Plays without deficit.
June 18th: In its speech of the budget, Bourassa announces expenditure of $3,677 billion and incomes $3,479 billion for 1970-1971.
June 24th: A bomb explodes against a wall of the general headquarter of the ministry for Defense at the time of Midsummer's Day. A federal civil servant loses the life there.
June 25th: Claude Castonguay files in his bill 8 on the health insurance.
July 3rd: The specialist physicians decide against bill 8 and refuse to sign an agreement with the government.
July 16th: Law 21, making it possible to acquire the grounds for the installation of the park Forillon, in Gaspésie is voted.
August 28th: Yvon Charbonneau is elected president of CEQ.
September 9th: Guy Saint-Pierre announces the creation of first anglophone Cégep, Cégep John-Abbott.
September 30th: Raymond Garneau becomes Minister for Finance.
October 5th: The diplomat James Richard Cross is removed by members of the Libération cell of FLQ. It is the beginning of the Crise of October.
October 7th: One of the requests of the FLQ is accepted, that is to say the diffusion of their Proclamation to the radio and on television.
October 8th: The specialist physicians, always in dissension with law 8, vote for the general strike.
October 10th: Jerome Choquette refuses the other requirements of the FLQ. Half an hour after this advertisement, the Chénier cell removes Pierre Laporte opposite his residence.
October 11th: The Bourassa government establishes its districts with the Hotel Queen Elizabeth of Montreal. The Prime Minister is ready to negotiate with the FLQ.
October 13rd: Interview Just watch me of Pierre Trudeau with anglophone journalists.
October 14th: About fifteen personalities whose Rene Lévesque, Claude Ryan, Marcel Pip, Louis Laberge, Yvon Charbonneau and Alfred Rouleau sign a supporting proclamation of actual negotiations with the FLQ. The evening, of the students meet in UQAM and support the claims of the terrorists.
October 15th: The National Assembly adopts a special law obliging the specialist physicians to return to work.
October 15th: 3000 people meet in the Center Paul-Saved to listen to Robert Lemieux (the lawyer of the felquists), Pierre Vallières, Charles Gagnon and Michel Chartrand.
October 16th: Calling upon a state d'" apprehended insurrection " , Ottawa issues during the night the old woman law of Measurements of War, making it possible to carry out arrests without mandate. At the same time, the Canadian army occupies Quebec. The 8000 men sent are especially concentrated in the area of Montreal but, in Quebec, of the soldiers are also installed on the parliamentary hill. 450 arrests are carried out. Among them, are those of Gerald Godin, Pauline Julien, Gaston Miron, Michel Chartrand, Robert Lemieux, Pierre Vallières and Charles Gagnon. In Ottawa, Jean Marchand states that the FLQ would be in possession of 2000 pounds dynamite, which would be enough for him, according to him, to make jump the downtown area of Montreal.
October 17th: Pierre Laporte is assassinated by the cell felquist which had removed it. Its body is found close to the military base of Saint-Hubert in the car which had been used for its removal.
October 21st: Robert Bourassa announces that the new bridge of Quebec will bear the name of Pont Pierre-Laporte.
October 25th: Jean Drapeau is re-elected mayor by a crushing majority of 92%. During the electoral campaign, he had declared that FRAP, the opposing party, had affiliations with the FLQ.
October 29th: Jean Cournoyer, become liberal, replaces Pierre Laporte with the Immigration and Ministry of Labor.
November 1st: Coming into effect of the health insurance.
November 6th: Bernard Lortie, suspected of having taken part in the removal of Pierre Laporte, is stopped in a housing of Montreal.
November 7th: Inauguration of the Bridge Pierre-Laporte.
November 10th: The session takes again its course. Bill 45 on the Consumer protection is filed in.
November 11th: The specialist physicians sign finally an agreement with Quebec.
November 24th: Deposit of the bill creating the Council of the Treasury.
December 3rd: The kidnappers of James Cross are encircled in a residence of Montreal-North. They agree to release it against a safe conduct for Cuba.
December 16th: Deposit of the law breaking the immutable character of the 17 districts protected by the Law from 1867.
December 28th: Francis Simard, Paul and Jacques Rose, grounds for one month in a country cottage with Saint-Luc, has gone to the police officers. It is the end of the Crise of October.
Births
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January 9th: Lara Fabian (singer)
- February 23rd: Marie-Josée Croze (actress)
- May 3rd: Marie-Sun Tougas (actress)
- May 19th: Mario Dumont (politicking)
- June 5th: Martin Gélinas (hockey player)
- June 23rd: Martin Deschamps (singer)
- July 27th: Patrick Labbé (actor)
- July 28th: Isabelle Brewer (artistic skater)
- September 1st: Mitsou (singer and stimulating)
Death
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March 2nd: Marc-Aurèle Fort (painter)
- October 7th: Alphonse-Marie Relative (priest and teacher)
- October 17th: Pierre Laporte
Internal bonds
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