Canada’s Missing Women Tragedy (Missing Persons Documentary) | Real Stories

Children — July 16, 2024 · 55 Comments

Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy – the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women's experience, from Vancouver's skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of these women remain unsolved.

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  3. I live in Port Coquitlam and the farm is just around the corner from me. It’s so horrible and sad. These woman were not throw aways. They were human being that didn’t deserve this horrific tragedy. I also was living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. I also struggled with addiction and lived a similar life as these women. It could’ve been me on this list. In 2009 I finally was able to pull myself out of the area and addiction trap. It still haunts me thinking about what could have been., RIP ladies, friends, and sisters. You’ll never be forgotten.🙏🪽🪽

    1. Scary how close to home it hits my now ex husband’s girlfriend before me (sorry if that’s confusing) but she use to attend parties at that farm before or we assume before he started his killing spree

    2. @@beansmama8914 ah yes, the Piggy Palace. Who can forget that place. Interestingly, after being away from the whole scene I ended up dating a man that worked for his brother Dave Pickton driving trucks and excavators. He remembers girls being at the farm all the time but minded his own business. He ended up taking 2 yrs off of work when the story broke. He had a breakdown.

    3. @@Tammissa I am not surprised, I personally am not from the area at all I live in Ontario and met my ex online who moved here but has since moved back so I can honestly say I only know what I have heard through media and other first to second hand information

  4. The film begins with the story of Dawn Crey: one of 60 women, a third of them Aboriginal, who have disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside over a 20-year period. Crey’s remains were among those found on the property of British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton.

  5. The film begins with the story of Dawn Crey: one of 60 women, a third of them Aboriginal, who have disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside over a 20-year period. Crey’s remains were among those found on the property of British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton. However, not enough of Dawn’s DNA was found to list her as one of the murder victims at the trial. The film introduces viewers to Dawn’s sister and brother, and their involvement in the annual Women’s Memorial March in Vancouver.

    The film then focuses on BC’s Highway 16, known as the Highway of Tears, which runs between Prince Rupert, British Columbia and Prince George, British Columbia, looking at the fate of Ramona Wilson. Wilson was one of nine women – all but one of them Native – who have gone missing or been murdered on that stretch of road since the 1990s.

    Welsh also filmed in Saskatoon, where a woman named Daleen Kay Bosse disappeared in 2004. She went missing in May but a criminal investigation didn’t begin until the following January. In the film, Daleen’s parents and friends talk about their difficulty in getting Saskatoon police to take Daleen’s disappearance seriously.

    Native rights activists Janice Acoose and Fay Blaney are interviewed in the film.

    Christine Welsh has produced, written and directed films for more than 30 years. She is an associate professor at the University of Victoria, where she teaches courses in indigenous women’s studies and indigenous cinema.

  6. When this documentary was made in 2006 it mentions approximately 9 women missing along the Highway of Tears. Present day (2023), this number is now upwards of 40.

    1. 😢😢😢😢 is it one person? You would think in this age of surveillance cameras and dashcams etc…they would have something, no matter how small.

    4. That is also false. From 1970 to 2023, over 80+ women have either went missing or were murdered on the Highway of Tears. Most of the 40+ cases before 2006 were left unreported for a long time

    5. @@LilmisscostumedramaIt is not one person. A fraction of the cases have been solved. There are tons of factors that contribute to these cases. Poverty and the lack of vehicle transport leave these women with no choice but to walk on dangerous natural terrain or resort to hitchhiking. There is not much adequate law enforcement so there are many criminals there that don’t get investigated. They can die in accidents or animal attacks or they can get abducted or be murdered by people they know. Lots of reasons why these keep on happening.

    1. In Australia, the British did the same with the First Nation People. They wanted to bring them up to “British Civilized Standard” by separating the children from mothers and families. They were taught to be “Christians” and worked for the White settlers as domestic servants, cattle herders, and even unpaid.

    2. It was to “take the Indian out of the child”. To “christianize” the “savages”. Not my words, but the testimony of First Nations survivors of “Indian Schools”.
      It’s sad and sick. We are all brothers and sisters no matter what shade our skin is or our traumas from childhood.

    5. It was because to white men from Europe including part of my own relatives absolutely thought Natives were inhumane and animals. My great great grandmother was captured from her Apache Tribe in Chihuahua and sold into slavery to a Mexican man who was actually Irish. She was a slave. And people still don’t even care about them or believe it.

  10. May these women rest in peace, not be forgotten and may justice be avenged. Bless their family and friends that they may heal. I am so sorry what happened to you, you dear souls.

    1. Why can’t they have a bus to take them back and forth. It is ridiculous that this is happening to these poor people and something needs to be done! They are human beings and need help 😮

  12. Wow! Incredibly sad film. Loves, thoughts, hugs and prayers to everyone in it affected by these beautiful indigenous women of Canada being missing, murdered, having violence committed against and all of the other atrocities they were put through. They all will get justice, guaranteed! Stay strong 🦾💪 everyone!🪶🧕🇨🇦🍁

  13. I almost don’t have words. What a beautifully heartbreaking tribute to these women, circled and embraced with hope for breaking cycles that would otherwise continue to decimate and harm families. There is so much good in this doc….well done!

    1. I agree, these poor women just wanted to be loved and some monster had the nerve to torture these poor girls, I am sure on judgement day, the good Lord will wipe every tear from them and will be comforted while this monster will wish that he has never born, I am not the judge, however I am sure there is a special place in H???? for a person like this, what was he thinking?

    4. As a Canadian.. I know. Our government just throws money at them but doesn’t truly accept them and show the respect they deserve. They keep having to fight for it, our government is a joke

  16. To Acclaimed Métis Filmmaker Christen Welsh this documentary was very memorable and moving to my heart ❤️ I have watched many programs about indigenous women and the Highway of Tears. I am very grateful for your work and help with these precious people. There needs to be so many more people who can help these Native American people all over this country and here in the United States. My prayers are with all of the families and friends who have lost their loved ones. In Jesus Mighty Name. Amen. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

  18. It would help if the government had a Rides transit bus running back and forth 2 – 3 times a day. If you’re poor the rides are free. Put a license plate reader on the buses and start picking these men up. If she’s a prostitute or hitch hiking doesn’t matter and start the investigation immediately. These predators know where the “easy pickins” are so you have to get defensive and pick up all the clues especially the trucks and cars traveling thru when the girl became missing. May God bless their families.

  19. I just want to comment to tell everyone that the disappearance of Daleen Bosse was eventually solved. A bouncer from the nightclub she went to confessed to her murder in 2008 (two years after the documentary was filmed). They were also about to locate her body. Thanks to the continued fight for justice from her family and loved ones, Daleen is no longer missing but found. 💔

    2. yep your correct Hales — a nightclub bouncer — said he had strangled Daleen Bosse and burned her body after a night of partying.

  20. My friend was murdered in calgary in the summer like a few years ago. She was my massage therapy school partner I want to knew what happend to Kori Creighton she to was a native woman

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