Leona Brule would sew outfits and toys for her two-­year-­old niece Vanessa when she had a moment free. She was reported missing from Fort Providence, N.W.T., in March 1989. The 18-year-old had been working as a live-in nanny and traveling back and forth to Edmonton to visit her boyfriend. Brule eventually stopped coming home to see her mom, and after about a year, her mother filed a police report. RCMP believe she was living on the streets in Edmonton in the 1990s, but she has never been found. Her case remains open.

Leslie Talley, from Dene Tha First Nation, was murdered when she was 29. On Jan. 6, 2010, police were called to the area of 151st Avenue and 31st Street, in Edmonton, Alberta. Talley’s body was found lying in the snow beside a truck. She died of blunt force trauma.

Family remembers Linda Condo as a friendly, happy woman who loved life. The 37-year-old was seen for the last time in Quebec on Oct. 8, 1988. On Oct. 25, 1988, a hunter found Linda’s body in the woods of Point-de-Miguasha, a sector of the municipality of Nouvelle on the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. She had been shot in the head and left on a trail for 11 days. The Surete du Quebec is investigating the homicide, but Linda’s son has not heard from investigators in more than a decade.

Lisa Marie Young, 21, has been missing since June 30, 2002. She was 21 when she disappeared in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Young was at a local bar where she met some male acquaintances after closing. They took a ride from another man, someone they had just met. The last time she was seen she was with the driver of the car. No one has heard from her since, something friends and family say is completely out of character.

Lora Frank, 19, was the youngest of five children. Her family and friends called her Lora. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was living with her brother and his spouse in Watson Lake, Yukon, where a revolving door of psychiatrists visited every month. Lora moved to Whitehorse to live in assisted living several months before she disappeared. She was last seen in the Yukon between late 1988 and early 1989. Her family tried to report her missing right away, and say the police didn’t take it seriously and she wasn’t officially reported missing until 1993. Her case remains open.

Laura Lee Banman was 23 years old when her remains were found on a logging road outside Campbell River, B.C. in May 2000. She was last seen in August, 1999 in Nanaimo, B.C. She was reported missing in January 2000. She was also known as Laura Lee Chalifoux and ‘Raven’ on the street. Banman is originally from Alberta.

Lana Derrick, 19, was a college student and visiting her mom in Terrace, B.C., when she went missing in the early hours of Oct. 6, 1995. RCMP say she was last seen at a gas station on Highway 16, otherwise known as the Highway of Tears, just outside town early that morning, but her family believes the last place she was seen alive was her friend Clarice’s house in Terrace. Since her disappearance, there has been no sign of her and her case is being handled by E-PANA, an RCMP task force that investigates deaths and disappearances tied to the Highway of Tears. Her case is still open.

Derrick is remembered as a happy and hardworking college student from the Gitanyow First Nation in British Columbia. “She just loved working outside, and logging and all that stuff that went with it. She was really good in her classes” – Sally Gibson (Aunt)

On October 6, 1995, Lana Patricia Derrick went missing along a 724km corridor of Highway 16 known as the “Highway of Tears.” 80+ women and girls have gone missing from the areas around the Highway of Tears.

Lisa Marie Young was a 21-year-old indigenous Canadian who disappeared from Nanaimo, British Columbia, on June 30, 2002. She had spent the night at a local nightclub and several house parties, before accepting a ride to a fast food restaurant from a man she had just met. Although Young has never been found, her disappearance is being investigated as a homicide Lisa Marie Young was the eldest child and only daughter of Don Young and Marelene “Joanne” Martin. She has two younger brothers, Brian and Robin. Martin was a member of Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation on the west coast of Vancouver Island and both of her parents attended Kakawis Residential School on nearby Meares Island. Young was close with her family. Martin described her as an independent woman who was a hard worker with a hard head, and had “inner strength that was totally awesome.” Dallas Hulley, an acquaintance of Young and the last person to hear from her, described Young as “outgoing, confident, bubbly,” and said “She was somebody you noticed right away, at a party or a gathering, or whatever it was. She just had a light about her.” At the time of Young’s disappearance, her father was helping her move into her own apartment in northern Nanaimo, something she was excited about. Young was also preparing to start a job at a call center within two days of her disappearance, and considered pursuing higher education, with the hopes of becoming a television sports broadcaster.

Linda Rose Guimond was born Dec. 23, 1963 in Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba. Guimond was known for her beautiful smile, her spirited energy and laugh. Family members say the mother of three disappeared sometime in the 1980s after moving to Winnipeg, but they can no longer recall the date. They said it’s possible she was hitchhiking to B.C. with her boyfriend. Her brother said relatives reported Guimond’s disappearance to police but the Winnipeg Police Service, Manitoba RCMP, Vancouver Police Department and B.C. RCMP have no record of her case.

Kari Gordon, 26, was a mother of one when she vanished from Nanaimo, British Columbia in April 1997. Hikers found her body near Little Lillooet Lake in British Columbia in the spring of 1998. The Chilliwack RCMP are investigating the homicide, and Gordon’s family last contacted police for an update in 2014.

Karina Wolfe was 20 years old when she was last seen in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She had just moved back home with her family. On July 2, 2010, she caught a ride from a friend to Saskatoon’s west side. She was never seen alive again. Wolfe’s body was discovered on November 14, 2015, in a marshy area northwest of Saskatoon. Convicted sex offender Jerry Constant pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and offering an indignity to human remains in June 2016. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 14 years.