Squamish Five

SQUAMISH FIVE were a group of 5 VANCOUVER-area political extremists who carried out a series of violent protest actions across Canada in 1982. These included bombing a hydroelectric transformer station at Dunsmuir, north of PARKSVILLE on VANCOUVER ISLAND, in May; bombing a Litton Systems plant that made cruise missile guidance systems near Toronto in October; and firebombing 3 Lower Mainland pornographic video stores in November. The Five, all in their twenties at the time, were Gerald Hannah,...

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