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During that summer, nearly 11, 000 people came to Clayoquot Sound to take part in the protests.

Activists eventually gained the support of major organizations such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

Every day for three months, protesters would gather and blockade a remote logging road, preventing vehicles carrying workers from reaching their sites.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police would then read a court injunction and carry or drag protesters into a bus, which would transport them to the police station in Ucluelet to be charged and released.

By the end of the summer, the sheer number of people that had been arrested made it one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history.

The court injunction being read to protestors, August 1993