Story of Kellie Little
Kellie was born Richard Little in 1969 in Campbell River, B.C. According to Wally Oppal’s 2012 missing women report, when Little was...
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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 Kelly Morrisseau
Kelly Morrisseau, 27, was a mother of three and seven months pregnant with a fourth child. On Dec. 10, 2006, she was found naked in a...
- Sep 9, 2022
Stort of Joyce Echaquan
Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman who died on September 28, 2020 in the Centre hospitalier de Lanaudière in...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Jennifer Furminger
Jennifer was 28 years old when she disappeared from Downtown Eastside Vancouver around December 27th, 1999. She had developed an...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Janet Henry
Janet Gail Henry, 36, of the ‘Namgis First Nation was last seen in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1997. In the...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Janice Desjarlais
Janice Cher Desjarlais,35, was last seen climbing into a dumpster with her boyfriend outside the Centre of Hope in Fort McMurray, AB....
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Jeanenne Fontaine
Jeanenne Chantel Fontaine, 29, was a mother of three who lived in Winnipeg but was originally from the Sagkeeng First Nation, north of...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Jeanette Basil
Jeanette Basil was a 33-year-old single mother to one son. On August 1, 1985 she was robbed and stabbed to death on Hastings Street in...
- 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 Joanne Ghostkeeper
Joanne Ghostkeeper was a generous and kind woman who would give you her last dollar if you needed it, her mom, Mary Willier, said. She...
- 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 9, 2022
Story of Juanita Cardinal
Juanita Cardinal, 27, was fatally stabbed in Edmonton on Feb. 26, 2006, by a friend after a night of drinking. Edmonton police declared...
- 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 9, 2022
Story of Joey English
Joey Tiiah Patricia English, 25, was a mother of three and a member of the Piikani Nation, a community in the Blackfoot Confederacy of...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Inusiq Sarah Akavak
Inusiq was from Iqaluit, Nunavut. She was strangled to death at the age of 39 in her apartment by her common-law husband, Kootoo...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Immaculate Basil
Immaculate “Mackie” Basil, 26, was a mother of one from the Tl’azt’en Nation in British Columbia. She was last seen on June 14, 2013,...
- Sep 9, 2022
Story of Helen Betty Osborne
Helen Osborne was born in Norway House, Manitoba, the eldest of 12 children born to Joe and Justine (née McKay) Osborne. Her ambition was...
- 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,...
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