Story of Morgan Beatrice Harris
Morgan Beatrice Harris, 39 Killed on or around 1st May 2022. Member of the Long Plain First Nation. Her remains were uncovered at...
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Through the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls (MMIWG2S) and children, we are able to gain perspective on the violence faced by the communities.
Generations of Canadians have gone through life unaware of residential schools, the historical and ongoing effects of the Indian Act, the significance of treaties, or the contributions of Indigenous Peoples to Canada's mosaic.
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Katie Ballantyne
Katie Sylvia Ballantyne was a 40-year-old mother of four when a friend reported her missing to the Edmonton Police Service on May 5,...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Jeanette Cardinal
Jeanette Marie Cardinal, 40, was a mother of five children. She moved to Edmonton in late 2010 from Slave Lake, Alta. On Feb. 7, 2011,...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Jeanine St. Jean
Jeanine Marie St. Jean, 42, was last seen alive in Schreiber, Ontario, with two men. It’s perhaps an innocuous detail, but not after a...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Jeannette Chief
Jeannette Jean Chief, 48, was an outgoing woman who loved going on walks and spending time with family, she was just shy of turning 49....
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Joyce Tillotson
Joyce Tillotson, 42, was last seen in Regina, Saskatchewan, when she left her residence to visit her friend on Nov. 14, 1993. She never...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Happy Charles
Happy Charles, a mother and grandmother from the Lac La Range Indian Band in Northern Saskatchewan. The last memory Charles’ daughter,...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Gloria Plume
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...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Gloria Gladue
Gloria Mildred Gladue, 44, was from Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta. She was a mother of seven and grandmother to several...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Elizabeth Dorion
Elizabeth Dorion, 44, was mother to three children when she disappeared from a Manitoba fish camp on Sept. 20, 1999. Pukatawagan RCMP are...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Elsie Sebastian
Elsie Sebastian, 40, used to dance around the house with her daughter, listening to Kenny Rogers. Family says they saw her for the last...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Deborah Sloss
Deborah Anne Sloss, 42, was found dead in the Toronto rooming house where she lived on July 29, 1997, after police responded to a 911...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Della Ootoova
Della Ootoova, 46, died in 2008 after her common-law spouse called police in Iqaluit and reported that she was not breathing. An initial...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Diana Rattlesnake
Diana Rattlesnake was a mother of three who loved to read books and do beadwork. The 49-year-old was found dead in a Brandon, Manitoba...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Diane Stewart
Diane Mary Stewart, 42, was last seen leaving a New Year’s Eve party on foot in 1996, on the Penticton Indian Reserve, in British...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Doreen Hardy
Doreen Hardy, 18, was last seen with 43-year-old Jane Bernard getting into the same car on Aug. 27, 1966, in Port Arthur, in what is now...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Carol Prudhomme
Carol Lynn Prudhomme’s body was found in her Regina apartment with plastic shopping bags over her head on Sept. 28, 2001. The...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Christine Elizabeth Ackabee
Christine was from Eagle River, Ontario. She passed away at the age of 42 after being stabbed 4 times by a stranger during a Canada Day...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Cheryl Black
Cheryl Lynn Black, also known as Cheryl Ford, was killed when she was 46. She was found in a burning dumpster in Old Strathcona, Alberta,...
- Sep 7, 2022
Story of Annette Holywhiteman
Annette Margaret Holywhiteman was last seen in the Edmonton, Alberta, area late in the summer of 2008. The 44-year-old woman’s skull was...
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