Shelley Mae Anderson
Shelley was born on May 11, 1959. She was 51 years old when she disappeared from Cobalt, Ontario. She was last seen alive on July 1st,...
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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 Jane Sutherland
Jane Louise Sutherland, 19, nicknamed as “Jeano” was originally from the Moose Cree First Nation in Ontario. She relocated to Ottawa in...
- 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 Josephine Chakasim
Josephine Chakasim, 17, was from Moosonee, Ont. She went out for the night on April 21, 1977 and never returned home. Her body was found...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Judy Quill
Judy Quill’s father described her as “gentle. … She just wasn’t the kind of person who got angry.” On March 22, 2009, Quill was found...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Hilda Agawa
Hilda was born in 1946. She was a member of the Batchewana First Nation, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Hilda was murdered by James Dunn a...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Helen Gillings
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...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Gloria Jean Abotossaway
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...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Evaline Cameron
Nineteen-year old Evaline Cameron was known for getting good grades and for her sparkling sense of humour. On Oct. 19, 1995 she was found...
- 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 Delaine Copenace
Delaine Copenace, 16, was reported missing in Kenora, Ont., on Feb. 28, 2016, and her body was found in a nearby lake almost a month...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Diane Dobson
Diane Dobson was a 36-year-old mother of three when she was found dead in Windsor, Ontario on Feb. 15, 1995. Dobson died from a blow to...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Delaine Copenance
Delaine Copenance is remembered as a loving sister and daughter from the Onigaming First Nation. Her family recalls her as “the most...
- 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 Carolyn Connolly
Carolyn Connolly was 54 when she was murdered in Toronto, Ontario, in August, 2008. She was Ojibway, originally from Curve Lake First...
- Sep 8, 2022
Story of Cheyenne Fox
Cheyenne Santana Marie Fox, 20, was found lifeless at the bottom of a Toronto highrise on April 25, 2013. She fell from the 24th floor....
- Sep 7, 2022
Story of Azraya Ackabee-Kokopenace
Azraya Ackabee-Kokopenace, 14, was found dead on April 17, 2016, a few days after she walked away from a Kenora, Ont., hospital. She had...
- Sep 7, 2022
Story of Alice Quoquat Netemegesic
Alice Quoquat was the mother of five sons and one daughter. She was from the Lac Seul First Nation near Sioux Lookout, Ontario. She was...
- Sep 7, 2022
Story of Adrienne Amikons
Adrienne Amikons was brutally murdered on December 18, 1997 by Jean Anne Rudski a woman whom her mother had met at the Peterborough...
- Sep 5, 2022
Story of Annie Pootoogook
Annie Pootoogook, 46, was a well-known Inuk artist originally from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, who lived in Ottawa. She was known for her...
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