BCGEU Flag at Tranquille
![A flag attached to a flag pole has a logo and text reading BC Govt Employees Union.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/solidarity-bc-protest_solidarite-protestation-cb/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2018/12/37308910_818512005001457_1047744696194957312_o.jpg)
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.