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Candlelight vigil in Victoria

A photograph of nine people holding lit candles face the camera with the BC legislature in the background.

Photo courtesy Times-Colonist newspaper.

As members of the BC legislature sat around the clock and the government limited debate, members of the Victoria Solidarity Coalition held a candlelight vigil on September 10, 1983. Union activists John Shields and Doug Hensby are at centre.