Canada's Highway of Tears

 

Indigenous Women Keep Vanishing on Canada's Highway of Tears

By: John Donovan  |  Oct 12, 2021

Sixteen years ago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) opened an investigation surrounding nine women and girls who had gone missing or were found murdered along a desolate stretch of roadway in northern British Columbia. The effort was dubbed

 

 Project E-PANA,

 

RCMP in British Columbia - Project E-PANA (rcmp-grc.gc.ca)

 

 named for the goddess that the Inuit people of Canada believe cares for souls before they go to heaven or are reincarnated.

The number of women that the RCMP identified in its probe soon doubled, to 18, and to keep the numbers from climbing even higher, authorities placed criteria on who would be included on the list. They had to be women or girls, they had to be involved in high-risk activities like hitchhiking, and they had to be last seen — or their bodies found — within a mile or so of Highways 16, 97 or 5 in upper British Columbia.

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