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CHEK News December 18, 2019 (Kendall Hanson) "Billboards go up for two missing Indigenous women from Vancouver Island"

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On Wednesday morning, drivers travelling the Island Highway through Nanoose Bay will have seen the billboards for Lisa Young and Angeline Pete, two missing and possibly murdered Indigenous women from Vancouver Island.

"It all started because there was signage for a missing girl in the Comox Valley who had been missing over 20 years and there was billboard after billboard after billboard and we came to the realization that most Indigenous families that we know of wouldn't be able to afford to put up signage like that or even where to begin to do something like that," said Jeannine Lindsay, Co-founder of Lil' Red Dress Project.

In August of 2018, Jeannine Lindsay and Carla Voyageur of the Comox Valley hatched an idea to make red dress pins and earrings.

The proceeds would fund signage for missing or murdered indigenous women here on Vancouver Island.

"So Carla did the first beaded red dress and it just took off from there. We had friends and family ordering pins from us," said Lindsay, one of the project's co-founders.

Twenty-one-year-old Lisa Young went missing in Nanaimo in June 2002 after leaving a party with someone she met that night, in his Jaguar.

Angeline Pete was from the Quatsino First Nation on Northern Vancouver Island. She was 28 when she went missing from North Vancouver in August 2011.

One of the billboards for two missing Indigenous woman from Vancouver Island.

Both disappearances have been devastating for their families.

"I can't even imagine what they must go through on a day to day basis having somebody just drop from the face of the earth to them,' said Voyageur, the other project co-founder.

"We're hoping if anyone has any information to call the RCMP and let's bring a little bit of hope, closure if that's what it needs to be but we need to bring in information so we can find out what happened to these women," said Lindsay.

The electronic billboard plus a sign in Black Creek will be up for four months at a cost of over $7,000.

"Just a shout out to all our supporters who have bought from us. We basically raised all the funds one bead at a time so it's pretty profound when you think of it in that light," said Voyageur.

They're hoping this project will inspire other projects raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and they say there will be more billboards in the future.

Anyone who has information about Angeline Pete's disappearance can call North Vancouver RCMP at (604) 985-1311. Anyone who has information on Lisa Young's disappearance at (250) 754-2345.

To report what you know anonymously, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

[video caption:] Watch Backers hope the billboards will lead to new tips to police about what happened to the two women.

See also

• 2018-June-30 Family marks 16th anniversary of Lisa Marie Young's vanishing CHEK News
• 2003-Apr-30 Billboard to keep search for Lisa alive Nanaimo Daily News
• 2003-Jun-27 Keeping hope alive Nanaimo Daily News
• 2004-Apr-18 Lisa Marie Young: Vanished Calgary Herald
• 2015-May-1 Story Telling - Lisa Marie Young (PDF) NWAC
• 2019-Dec-18 Billboards go up for two MMIWG from Vancouver Island CHEK News
• 2019-Dec-19 Signage spreads awareness about missing Indigenous women myCampbellRiverNow
• 2020-Jan-13 Billboards now up for two MMIWG from Vancouver Island Ha-Shilth-Sa
• 2020-Jan-16 Billboards up for two missing women Ha-Shilth-Sa
• 2020-Jan-21 On Vancouver Island, Beaders Find a Way to Aid Search for MMIWG Tyee
• 2020-Jul-12 'Someone knows something': a look into Vancouver Island missing persons Victoria News
• 2020-Oct-6 Indigenous beaders are buying billboards and online ads to help find MMIWG Toronto Star
• 2022-Jun-27 Annual march for Lisa Marie Young marks 20 years since Nanaimo woman's disappearance CTV News
• 2022-Jun-27 Dozens walk for Lisa Marie Young on 20th year of disappearance Ha-Shilth-Sa