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Dawn Foxcroft (left), Debra Foxcroft and Kelly Poirier stand for Lisa Marie Young and other Indigenous women who have gone missing or fallen victim to homicide on Sunday, May 2, by the Tseshaht band office in Port Alberni. On Sunday, which is Young's birthday, others were standing for her from…
Although Lisa Marie Young went missing 19 years ago, Nanaimo police have encountered new information into her disappearance over the last year and a half.
A press conference was held today at the Nanaimo RCMP detachment, where family members of the Tla-o-qui-aht woman and police investigators…
On June 26 dozens of people – most wearing orange shorts in recognition of residential school survivors and victims – progressed from the RCMP detachment to Maffeo Sutton Park at Nanaimo’s waterfront. The Indigenous dance group Butterflies in Spirit held a performance, followed by speakers…
Friends and family are mourning the loss of Marelene ‘JoAnne’ Martin Young, age 54, who passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on June 21.
Young is the mother of Lisa Marie Young, the Tla-o-qui-aht woman who went missing in Nanaimo June, 30, 2002. Joanne never gave up in her effort to find…
It’s been nearly 10 years since Joanne Young’s daughter Lisa disappeared without a trace, and even though it’s still extremely painful to relive the memories, Joanne and her husband Don work hard to keep their daughter’s memory alive.
Joanne and her children are…
Drivers travelling on the Island Highway through Nanoose Bay will now see the electronic billboard portraying both Angeline Pete and Lisa Marie Young, two missing and possibly murdered Indigenous women from Vancouver Island.
The billboards were put up with funds raised from the Lil’ Red Dress…
Over a hundred walked through the streets of Nanaimo on Feb. 14 in recognition of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender diverse people – one of many such marches that took place over the weekend with hopes of ending a national crisis.Organized by the Vancouver Island University…
About a dozen Tla-o-qui-aht women and their supporters braved a fierce winter rain and wind storm to walk more than 20 km of the Tofino Highway in an attempt to bring attention to two missing women’s cases from their tribe, as well as the missing or murdered women’s cases across Canada.
The…
The Port Alberni Friendship Centre hosted its second annual Sisters in Spirit Vigil on Oct. 4. The gathering was held in conjunction with hundreds of similar events across Canada to remember and honour aboriginal women who have been murdered or who have gone missing.
Organizer Janice Amos welcomed…
Several years after her aunt was found murdered on a logging road near Gold River, Lillian Howard encountered the late family member in a dream. Christina Beatrice (Howard) Thomas reassuringly held out her hand to Lillian.
“She said, ‘Hi Lil, I just came by to tell you how much I love you and…
Hundreds dressed in red gathered in downtown Victoria on Feb. 14 to participate in the 17th annual Stolen Sisters Memorial March to honour missing and murdered Indigenous Peoples. The W̱SÁNEĆ Wolf Pack led the march from Centennial Square through Government Street towards the legislature. The…
Since 1992, women have been gathering on Valentines Day in the Downtown Eastside for the women’s memorial walk in honor and remembrance of the missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and gender diverse peoples (MMIWG2S+).
According to the Native Women’s Association of Canada, British…
“I believe that proverb, “a people are not defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground.” Let me tell you when we come together, regardless of any of the hurts we’ve been through, when we decide to fight for what is right, when we decide to fight for our loved ones, when we decide…
Dozens of red dresses hung over a gathering last week in Port Alberni, as families shared the stories of loved ones they lost to homicide. Silently swaying from the Italian Hall’s ceiling, the 23 vibrant garments hung above the event as a reminder of the lives that were taken away.
The Tseshaht…
Over a hundred walked through the pouring rain today in recognition of the many missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, gathering near a spot where an Aboriginal woman died under suspicious circumstances just a month ago in Port Alberni.
Long considered a North American crisis that…