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Billboards up for two missing women By Karly Blats Ha-Shilth-Sa Contributor Nanoose Bay, BC - 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 Project—a campaign spearheaded by friends Carla Voyageur and Jeannine Lindsay from the Comox Valley who wanted to offer financial assistance to families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) to advertise their missing loved ones around Vancouver Island. Through the Lil’ Red Dress Project, over the last year and a half more than a dozen volunteers have created hundreds of hand-made beaded red dress pins and earrings. All proceeds from the beadwork go towards helping Indigenous families. So far the project has raised close to $10,000. The electronic billboard along the Island Highway, plus a sign in Black Creek with Pete’s information, will be up for four months at a cost of $7,000. “I think more than anything we’re hoping for awareness,” Voyageur said. “We would love to have the outcome where information comes in about these missing women but we also just want to build awareness that it’s not just something in other parts of Canada, it’s here on Vancouver Island, it’s local.” Young, a Nuu-chah-nulth woman, went missing from Nanaimo almost 18 years ago at the age of 21 after leaving a bar with a man she just met. Pete, from the Quatsino First Nation on Northern Vancouver Island, went missing in August 2011 from North Vancouver at the age of 28. Young’s aunt, Carol Frank, said the billboards are important in keeping the memory of her niece alive. “Lisa was chosen as one of the Nuuchah-nulth women for the billboard so it was exciting,” Frank said. “With my late sister, she always wanted to let as many people know Lisa’s name and that she will never be forgotten, she always
Photo by Karly Blatts
An electronic billboard on the Island Highway near Nanoose Bay shows missing Indigenous woman Angeline Pete. worked really hard in doing that.” I heard the story it just blows my socks Frank believes the billboards will bring off,” Watts said. “Two ladies sat down more awareness to MMIWG and possibly and they talked about how they noticed spark a memory in someone who may that there were billboards for non-native have information about Young’s case. cold case files. There was several in their “We just want people to not forget community…and they were like ‘well [Lisa], to remember that she is someone’s how come our sisters aren’t up there?’ family. I know there’s so many people They found out that billboards coast apthat are missing we just try our best to proximately up to $3,500 a month and keep her name out there,” Frank said. then they proclaimed to themselves our “We’ve got a Lisa Marie Young Facefamilies can’t afford this.” book page and we’ve got close to about Watts, who was not a beader, became 600 members now…more and more so impressed with the Lil’ Red Dress people are finding out about Lisa.” Project that she learned how to make the Going forward, Voyageur and Lindsay red dress pins and began selling them to hope to continue adding billboards and support the campaign. signage for MMIWG on Vancouver IsSo far she’s made about 70 pins and has land and possibly on the mainland if they sold the majority of them to Nuu-chahcan raise enough funds. nulth people. “I think it’s important to continue with “There’s huge support within our own the project because there are a lot of other people for this project,” Watts said. “I family members out there who are still love supporting things that are meanmissing,” Lindsay said. “Also to hopeingful. First Nation women’s lives are fully help bring this into classrooms and important.” into universities so we can bring more Beaders with the Lil’ Red Dress Project awareness in that sense as well.” had stopped taking orders in October in Lisa Watts, MMIWG family support order to catch up with requests, but will worker with the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal open their sales again for 24 hours on Council, said she’s visited the billboards Jan. 15. Find them online at www.lilredand is quite excited about them. dressproject.ca/ or www.facebook.com/ “From the start I was very impressed lilreddress. with this project and their cause. When
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