Candlelight vigil in Victoria
![A photograph of nine people holding lit candles face the camera with the BC legislature in the background.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/solidarity-bc-protest_solidarite-protestation-cb/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2018/12/41501525_866145596904764_4973080123084374016_o.jpg)
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.