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Remembering missing women

 


Not forgotten. A group of women visiting the memorial stone in CRAB Park in memory of the more than 60 missing women from Vancouver. The women’s disappearance is widely regarded as one of the main reasons for the parliamentary subcommittee on solicitation laws visit to Vancouver. (photo: Aurora Johnson)

About 1,000 local people walked through the local streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on February 14.

The 14th Annual Women’s Memorial March was held in memory of the more than 60 local women who disappeared in the past 15 years and was preceded by a series of speeches by friends and family members of the 32 women whose remains were found on Pickton’s farm and of the 40 women who are still missing.

The march paused for a few minutes at the spots along the roads where the women, many of whom were sex workers, were last seen by friends.

Those walking were given a program expressing thoughts and prayers for the families of those who were known to be murdered and those who are still missing.

Article originally in The Pivot Post, Spring 2005
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The following women are now alleged to have been murdered:
Andrea Borhaven,
Andrea Joesbury,
Angela Jardine,
Brenda Wolfe,
Cara Ellis,
Cindy Feliks,
Dawn Theresa Crey,
Debra Jones,
Diane Melnick,
Dianne Rock,
Georgina Papin,
Heather Bottomley,
Heather Chinnock,
Helen Hallmark,
Inga Hall,
Jacqueline McDonell,
Jennifer Furinger,
Kerry Koski,
Marcella Creison,
Marnie Frey,
Mona Wilson,
Patricia Johnson,
Sarah Jean DeVries,
Sereena Abotsway,
Sherry Irving,
Tanya Holyk,
Teressa Williams,
Tiffany Drew,
Wendy Crawford,
Yvonne Boen, and 3 as yet unidentified women known only as Jane Doe.

The following women are still unaccounted for:
Angela Arseneault,
Cara Ellis,
Catherine Gonzalez,
Cindy Beck,
Danielle Larue,
Delphine Nikal,
Dorothy Spence,
Elaine Allenbach,
Elaine Dumba,
Elizabeth Chalmers,
Elsie Sebastian,
Frances Young,
Gloria Fedyshyn,
Ingrid Soet,
Janet Henry,
Jacqueline Murdock,
Julie Young,
Katherine Knight,
Kathleen Wattley,
Lana Derrick,
Leigh Miner,
Lenora Olding,
Lillian O’Dare,
Marilyn Moore,
Marie Laliberte,
Mary Lands,
Michelle Gurney,
Nancy Clark,
Nicole Hoar,
Olivia William,
Rebecca Guno,
Richard “Kellie” Little,
Ruby Hardy,
Sharon Abraham,
Sharon Goselin,
Sharon Ward,
Sherry Baker,
Sheryl Donohue,
Sheila Egan,
Sherry Rail,
Stephanie Lane,
Tammy Fairbairn,
Tania Peterson,
Teresa Triff,
Verna Littlechief,
Yvonne Abigosis.
Some names have not been added to this list which was compiled by the Women’s Memorial March Committee.
This list was last updated on April 3, 2009.


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