Attributes of domestic political terrorism in Canada, 1960–1985

Abstract

The author presents the methodology and selected results from his original chronology and data set on Canadian terrorist events. The data base covers the years 1960–1985, includes almost 500 separate events, is coded on forty variables, and is more detailed, rigorous, and comprehensive than other compilations. The domestic events were analyzed in order to determine their frequency, nature, severity, scope, range, and intensity. Analyses of selected variables of this data set are presented in this article.