Paul Joseph Chartier (August 5, 1921 – May 18, 1966) was a Canadian man who died when a bomb he was preparing exploded in a washroom of the Parliament of Canada.
Born in rural Alberta to parents who owned a small hotel, Chartier became a trucker at age 20.
There he lit the fuse of his dynamite-based bomb, likely intending to return to the gallery and throw it upon the Members of Parliament below.
He was carrying it in his right hand, and it blew off his arm and tore open his torso, killing him instantly, but harming no one else.
The washroom was heavily damaged, but the thick wooden door contained the blast in that room.