The body of 19-year-old Helen Gillings was found under a couch in an alley on King Street in Hamilton on Feb. 17, 1995. She was last seen alive at 1 a.m. the day before, entering the alley with a man. Police say she was working in the sex trade and was known in the area where she was found. In Feb. 2018, Hamilton police Staff Sgt. Dave Oleniuk said it’s a cold case, but they’re still reviewing the case to see if there’s anything more that can be done. The same month there was a vigil for her, after 23 years. Police have a $10,000 reward for information. Oleniuk believes that the person responsible is looking over their shoulder and will be found.

Geraldine Ann Lewis Beardy, 29, was a mother of three from northern Manitoba’s Garden Hill First Nation. Her life ended during a trip to Winnipeg when a Sherbrook Street store owner allegedly hit her over the head with a baseball bat after she stole luncheon meat worth $1.49 on Sep. 13, 2009. She died of her injuries less than one week later. The prosecutor dropped manslaughter charges against the store owner after one of the Crown’s main witnesses left Canada. In 2015, six years after her death, family, friends and hospital staff gathered at a vigil for Geraldine.

Gladys Tolley, 61, was struck and killed by a Sûreté du Québec cruiser while crossing Highway 105 near the entrance to the Kitigan Zibi First Nation on Oct. 5, 2001. The incident was investigated by Montreal police and determined to be an accidental collision. Her daughter, Bridget Tolley, has lobbied for an independent investigation into her mother’s death. She says police have never spoken to her family.

Glenda Morrisseau, 19, loved to dress up and go out with friends. But on July 17, 1991 she disappeared in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was found dead, naked from the waist down, with her hands tied behind her back in one of the city’s scrapyards on Aug. 7, 1991. Project Devote, a joint task force between the Winnipeg Police Service and RCMP is investigating the homicide, and around 2014, family says investigators called to say they may reopen the case.

Gloria Kaily Black Plume was a mother to six children, a grandmother and a sister. In March 1999, when she was 49, Gloria was found murdered in a Calgary alley. She had been stomped and kicked to death. Her alleged killers were acquitted.

Gloria was born August 7th, 1963. She went by the nickname “Marty.” Gloria Jean was last seen on Friday, February 14, 1992 when she was 28 years old. She was residing at 90 Shuter Street at the time of her disappearance and told family members she was going to Moss Park with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is only known as ‘Lenny’, and they were apparently going to meet a man called ‘Bob Russo’. Gloria left behind most of her belongings at her address but she did take her Birth Certificate and status card with her. Her card has been inactive and she has not filed a tax return since 2000. She was a member of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nations, otherwise known as Sucker Creek First Nations in Little Current, Manitoulin, Ontario. On the same night as her disappearance David Marlatt was killed in Gloria’s apartment. Two men were charged and convicted of his death. Officers spoke with Gloria that night and it was determined she was not involved but she went missing shortly after. The reason for her disappearance is still unknown but investigators are trying to determine if it was as a result of the homicide. At the time of her disappearance, Gloria was described as 5’2″, 130 lbs., with long brown hair and brown eyes.

Gladue, from Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, is remembered by family as “bright and bubbly” and someone “who took pride in teaching her family about their shared Indigenous heritage through cooking and sewing.” In particular, she was “known for her great bannock, stew and moose meat.” Gladue was last seen in Desmarais, AB, about 330 kilometers north of Edmonton in October 2015. Her remains were found in rural Manitoba in June 2018. “Every life matters, especially these Indigenous women who are getting murdered left and right and now my mom is just one of those stories. It’s just not right.” – Nicole Gladue-Weesemat (daughter)

Gloria Mildred Gladue, 44, was from Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta. She was a mother of seven and grandmother to several children. Her family said she was funny, traditional and known for her great bannock, stew and moose meat. The last time her family heard from her was through a text message sent on Oct. 8, 2015, telling them she loved them and saying goodnight. On June 27, 2018, Grant Arthur Sneesby, 68, from Gladstone, Man., was arrested in Edmonton by the RCMP’s historical homicide unit. He’s been charged with second-degree murder and offering an indignity to human remains. Since her disappearance the family has been doing their own searches, not believing that the RCMP was doing as much as they could in the search for their mother. In November 2017, her children spoke at the MMIWG inquiry hearings in Edmonton.

Frances May Ellah (Cook), 59, from Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba, is remembered by her daughter as quiet-natured and pretty. On June 15, 1975, she was found severely injured in a stairwell of a Winnipeg apartment building. She succumbed to her injuries in hospital. An autopsy revealed she had a fractured skull, bleeding in the brain stem and a “star shaped laceration” on the back of her head from a “blunt force object,” newspapers reported. City police concluded Ellah was intoxicated and her injuries were likely the result of a fall. A pathologist, however, said the bleeding in the brain stem was unusual for a fall and a possible indicator of foul play. In 1975, an inquest was called into Ellah’s death but the judge could not determine if she died as the result of an accident or foul play. He recommended police continue to investigate her cause of death, but the case remains unsolved. In an email to CBC, a spokesperson for the Winnipeg Police Service said investigators will “examine the findings of detectives in the original investigation.”

Felicia Velvet Solomon, 16, was a Grade 10 student at R.B. Russell Collegiate in Winnipeg, Manitoba, when she disappeared in March 2003. Two months later, on June 11, a body part was pulled from the Red River and another two days later, a leg. On Oct. 2, 2003, her family learned the remains belonged to Felicia. The original investigation was led by the Winnipeg Police Service but in July 2012, Project Devote, a Manitoba task force dedicated to missing and murdered cases of vulnerable persons, said they were taking over Solomon’s case.

Fonassa Bruyere, 17, loved to laugh and run errands with her grandmother. She was last seen getting into a car in Winnipeg on Aug. 9, 2007. Later that month, her body was discovered in a field northwest of the city. According to family, she was stabbed 17 times. Project Devote, a task force dedicated to investigating missing and murdered persons cases in Manitoba, is investigating the homicide.

Freda Goodrunning, 35, was a mom of six from Sunchild First Nation in Alberta. She had been living on the street for the last four years of her life. Goodrunning was found dead in a storage shed on the afternoon of June 4, 2014 in the west end of Edmonton. She suffered blunt force trauma, according to the Edmonton Police Service. In December 2016, Edmonton Police charged Jesse Martin, 33, with second-degree murder in connection with her death and possession of an offensive weapon. His next court date is June 3, 2019.