It's Nigel Hamer. aka Nigel Barry Hamer. He was a McGill student from the West Island who participated in the kidnapping of British Trade Rep James Cross from a mansion up on Redpath Crescent. It was often said that he was probably an undercover RCMP spy. I know because I often say it. Rather than going to prison for his deeds he was sentenced to doing community service in the form of some sorta telemedecine thing with the North. He also is involved now in the engineering side of metro brakes or something like that.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Nigel Hamer, the weird anglo FLQ terrorist
It's Nigel Hamer. aka Nigel Barry Hamer. He was a McGill student from the West Island who participated in the kidnapping of British Trade Rep James Cross from a mansion up on Redpath Crescent. It was often said that he was probably an undercover RCMP spy. I know because I often say it. Rather than going to prison for his deeds he was sentenced to doing community service in the form of some sorta telemedecine thing with the North. He also is involved now in the engineering side of metro brakes or something like that.
Nigel Barry Hamer, Anglo FLQ member
ReplyDeleteDenis Lortie?
ReplyDeleteIf that crime had happened in Texas or Florida , Nigel would have been BBQ'D.
ReplyDeleteWithout the beard, I would've said Roger Whittaker.
ReplyDeleteHamer wasn't arrested in 1970; his name only became pubic during one of the Commissions (Keable?) years later. He was quietly arrested, did a short time inside, and then taught engineering at CEGEP St-Laurent for many years.
ReplyDeleteNo, he was a math teacher at Cegep de Saint-Laurent
ReplyDeleteHamer was a math teacher at Cegep de Saint-Laurent during the 70's.
ReplyDeleteHe passed many week-ends in prison for his participation in the rapt of Cross
Old Blog, new question. Did Nigel Barry Hamer attend U of O summer of 1970? I was doing French immersion and there was someone with that name in attendance. Don't remember his face.
ReplyDeleteNot sure he had a British accent. He was from the West Island. Someone else had a similar story about what might've been his wife. I'll add it later.
ReplyDeleteHe was 22 at the time and participated by going for the medical prescription James Cross needed for hypertension. He was a McGill français guy with Political Science lecturer Stanley Gray.
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