The Queen’s community took time on Tuesday to remember the shooting deaths of 14 women at Montreal's l’École Polytechnique in 1989.

Three years after the attack, Dec. 6 was declared Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

In the annual event, hosted by the Engineering Society and the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 14 women, representing engineering students, staff and faculty, held red roses, lit white candles and read a brief outline of each of the victims.

The gathered crowd also heard from Kimberly Woodhouse, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, and guest speaker Carol Ann Budd (Sc’89), a Queen’s engineering graduate herself and a community member of the Queen’s Aboriginal Council.

Twelve female engineering students, a nurse, and a faculty member were killed in the 1989 attack.