'Indian Summer' Movie about Oka Crisis

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Let's not also forget the last part where the SQ are similarly portrayed, with them beating a militant tied to a chair to find out who shot Cpl. Lemay. 

Sounds like one of Aesop's stories

 

[Franko]

From my memory of events, the deployed troops were firm but fair.  We did not give ground.

Not an inch.

Remember Ronald Cross doing his warrior screeching and gesturing into the face of R22R Cpl Cloutier - and same said Cpl doing his best ceremonial guard stare.... Gawd but the media lapped that one up.

Pat was a Pte at the time. After it all happened he was immediately promoted to Cpl and whisked away for his CLC and yet another promotion. He was the poster boy for the CF for a while. IIRC it all went pretty bad for him afterwards, he got into drugs, punted from the CF and did a stint in the porn industry. Don't know where he is these days.

There was that RCR team that was transported to the outskirts of Kanawake & a tug of war between Native & RCR over a certain service rifle.... filmed by the media... a big tug of war - if memory serves me right... but we got our rifle back - in the end.

Yep, they guarded a bridge with about 20 pers ( Pioneer Plt from 2 RCR) against about 120(+) angry natives who didn't like the idea that there was a raid being conducted on their land. They started a brawl, grabbed a rifle. Then grabbed a Captain by his webbing and beat him with his own helmet until he was unconscious. The guys opened up with warning shots from a C9. The crowd backed off and the guys held the line.

We watched from our lines (we were QRF and spooled up as we watched it all happen live on TV) and rolled out of St Catherine. The streets were lined with cheering crowds for about 2 km IIRC. Weird for those days. The locals were tired of all of this and wanted us to open the Mercier.

There were also riots as well with numbers in the region of 5000+ and were rolled to quell those as well. As soon as we showed up, they dispersed. Rock throwing incidents on the major highway as some of the natives left Chateaugay by non-natives was also sorted out by us. The SQ couldn't do anything but watch.

There is alot to the events surrounding the Oka Crisis and that movie is only showing one side of it....a very sanitized, sensationalized narrow POV side of it.

Regards

 

[Franko]

I didn't watch this "movie" because, well, they didn't ask my input.  I mean, what of the young native lad that came to me one day, asking if we were in the "RCR Regiment" (sic).  When we answered yes, he shook my hand, and the hands of the rest of the section for "saving his life" the day previous.  (He was being chased by an angry mob of "whities" from Chateauguay, and we brought him into our lines so that he could go home.)  Then what of the woman who asked us to protect her house from the Warriors.  (She was native).  She was more worried about her four year old daughter than herself, and was quite grateful that we were there.

So, I missed the movie, only saw parts of it, and since they showed nothing (really) of the 2 RCR battle group at Ste Catherine, I decided not to watch it.  If anyone wants to hear "war stories" from Oka, well, don't ask me, cause I only saw it first hand, but from the hatch of a track.

Hmmm....remember the railyard?      ;D

I was with the Cougars. It was nice when they finally got up a few pay phones for us to use.

Seems we've walked the same ground.

Regards

 

[vonGarvin]

Hmmm....remember the railyard?       ;D

I was with the Cougars. It was nice when they finally got up a few pay phones for us to use.

Seems we've walked the same ground.

Regards

I DO remember the "railyard", aka the "Petting Zoo"!  I won't even begin to talk about the movies that were being played, 24/7 in that tent towards the "main gate!"

This INDEED is a small world!

 

[Franko]

I DO remember the "railyard", aka the "Petting Zoo"!  I won't even begin to talk about the movies that were being played, 24/7 in that tent towards the "main gate!"

This INDEED is a small world!

Forgot about it being nicknamed that....as well as the entertainment.

Ahhh...those were the days.