BCGEU Flag at Tranquille
Courtesy BCGEU.
On July 19, 1983 members of the BC Government Employees’ Union began a three-week occupation of the Tranquille Institution in Kamloops after learning its closure was planned. They raised a hand painted flag replacing the BC flag on the facility.
The BCGEU flag, fashioned from a bedsheet, which flew over Tranquille Institution in 1983 has been preserved in the archives of the Union.