LC control no. | sh2017003022 |
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Topical heading | Montreal Massacre, Montréal, Québec, 1989 |
Variant(s) | École polytechnique Massacre, Montreal, Québec, 1989 |
See also | Mass shootings--Québec (Province) School shootings--Québec (Province) |
Found in | Work cat.: Elgin, Peter. The Montreal massacre, 2003: page 3 (the homicides that became known as the "Montreal Massacre" in which, on December 6, 1989, at L'École polytechnique in Montreal, gunman Marc Lépine killed fourteen women and wounded twelve other people) CBC digital archives, May 4, 2017: Montreal Massacre (For 45 minutes on Dec. 6, 1989 an enraged gunman roamed the corridors of Montreal's École Polytechnique and killed 14 women. Marc Lepine, 25, separated the men from the women and before opening fire on the classroom of female engineering students he screamed, "I hate feminists." Almost immediately, the Montreal Massacre became a galvanizing moment in which mourning turned into outrage about all violence against women) École Polytechnique Massacre: 25 Years Later, article dated Dec. 6, 2014, via Huffpost, May 4, 2017 (a 25 year-old man walked into the École Polytechnique de Montréal armed with a 223-calibre Sturm-Ruger rifle on December 6, 1989; before fatally shooting himself, he killed six other female engineering students, an office clerk and a nursing student, also women, and injured 14 other people, including four men caught in the crossfire) |