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During the October Crisis of 1970, the British trade commissioner, James Cross, and the Quebec labor minister, Pierre Laporte, were kidnapped and Laporte was murdered. The kidnappers claimed allegiance to the Front for the Liberation of Quebec, which Chartrand supported; for this, he and some 500 others were arrested.<p><hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1"><font size=-1>[1] Trappist monk in Oka, Quebec, Canada, 1933-35. </font><p><b>Father:</b> (civil servant)<br><b>Wife:</b> Simonne Monet-Chartrand (activist, m. 17-Feb-1942, d. 1993, two sons, four daughters)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Suzanne G. Chartrand<br><b>Daughter:</b> Marie-Andree (d. 1971)<br><b>Son:</b> Alain (documentary filmmaker)<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/720/000123351/">University of Montreal</a><br><p> <u>Confederation of National Trade Unions</u> President, Montreal Central Council (1968)<br> <u>Confederation of Canadian Catholic Workers</u> <br> <a href="/crime/544/000051391/">Sedition</a> arrested under War Measures Act (16-Oct-1970), acquitted<br> <a href="/crime/544/000116196/">Insult</a> of a Quebec police officer (9-May-1949)<br><p> <b>Is the subject of documentaries:</b><br> <i>Un homme de parole</i>, 1991<br><p> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=220310" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>