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Plaza Alexis Nihon Traffic study for the promenade on the Atwater metro station level. Stanley King, Draughtsman; Harold Ship, Architect. 1964 [City of Montreal Archives]

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Alexis Nihon plaza, interior.

Westmount / Montreal

2018

B&W home development

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“Hostage-taking isn’t new to ‘killer cons’,” Montreal Gazette. August 26, 1980. Page 02. --- By FREDERICA WILSON of The Gazette --- The inmates involved in the hostage-taking at the maximum security Laval Institute have all been described as extremely dangerous.

At least five are convicted killers - two of them slayers of policemen.

- Edgar Roussel, 33, a convicted killer, has a record that includes two escapes and two hostage-takings.

In March, 1978, while serving two life terms for a double slaying, he was a ringleader of Canada’s longest prison hostage-taking as he and three others held six guards and 10 inmates for three weeks in the St. Jerome jail.

The incident, like the current one, began with a foiled escape.

His first hostage-taking had come three months before at New Brunswick’s Dorchester Penitentiary.

Roussel’s first prison escape was from Laval, when it was St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary.

He and a notorious accomplice, Richard Blass, and four other convicts jumped three guards and commandeered a van for their getaway.

They were recaptured, but less than five months later Roussel and Blass escaped again.

A few days later they committed the crime that brought the double life sentence - the slaying of two men in the Gargantua Bar and Grill in east-end Montreal.

Three months later, Blass was killed in a shoot-out with police and Roussel was behind bars.

Three months later, Blass was killed in a shoot-out with police and Roussel was behind bars.

During the St. Jerome incident Roussel threatened a ‘bloodbath’ if police stormed the jail, and said he would rather die than stay in prison.

‘I have nothing to lose,’ he said. ‘I’m willing to die for my freedom.’

- Robert Pelletier and Denis Labelle, both in their 20s, were convicted in 1977 of the beating and stabbing death of a fellow prisoner at Archambault Institute.

The victim, Daniel Theirry, 25, of Tours, France, had been stabbed more than 60 times.

His body was found in a toilet of a recreation building at the maximum security prison in Ste. Anne des Plains, north of Montreal.

Pelletier, from the Gatineau area, was serving a five-year term for armed robbery. Labelle, of Mount Laurier, was serving life for murder,

- Roger Duhamel and Thomas Guay, are serving life sentence for the 1977 shooting death of a Quebec Police Force constable, Robert Brabant, 23, who was ambushed near Joliette while chasing three suspects in a holdup.

He was alone at the time, and his death sparked a seven-day walkout by unionized members of the QPF to protest one-man patrols.

Duhamel, in his late 20s or early 30s, and Reginald Berger were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life, with no parole before 25 years.

Guay, in his late 30s, was convicted of second-degree murder and also drew a life term, but was to be eligible for parole in 10 years.

- Rory Shayne, 29, also a prison escaper, has a record of dramatic escapades. He was convicted last April of conspiracy, kidnapping and bank robbery in a February, 1979 heist in which he hijacked a helicopter.

Shayne forced the helicopter pilot to land in the parking lot of the Place Vertu shopping centre in northwest Montreal, where he then held up a Royal Bank branch, taking nearly $12,000.

He then had the pilot flu to the nearest Metro station where he and a female accomplice fled.

At the time, Shayne, described as ‘always armed and extremely dangerous,’ was being sought after his escape from the medium-security Leclerc Institute in Laval.

He had fled from a female escort while at the Alexis Nihon Plaza on a day-pass.

Before that escape, Shayne had served eight years of a 20-year sentence for wounding two policemen in Victoria, B.C., in Sept. 1970.

In that escape, he had robbed a bank and in his flight had hijacked a sailboat and held two people hostage for 16 hours before being caught in U.S. waters.

- Robert Imbeault, in his early 30s, has a prison record that includes at least four escapes, his first from a prison in Cowansville in November, 1969.

Three months later, after recapture, he escaped again - this time from a jail in Rimouski.

In the next three years he escaped at least twice from Laval, where he has been imprisoned since 1972 on charges of armed robbery, theft, and being unlawfully at large.

- Omer Alain and Michael Mavionello were identified as the other two convicts in the Laval hostage-taking, but no information was available.

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Plaza Alexis Nihon, Montreal, 2003. Photo by Steve Brandon

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