At the time of the declaration of the War Measures Act, I was a first year student at University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI).   We stayed up all night for a few days, because there was 24 hour news coverage of events.

The UPEI newspaper (Cadre) printed an old version of the FLQ manifesto, during the crisis. It was illegal to print the newest FLQ version, but most copies of the newspaper were seized by police under the act anyway. An irriteted columnist from the UPEI publication rescued a few copies, before they were seized. He passed them out at an Acadien dance. He was detained by police, and later released, when it was learned the Manifesto was an old version.