This may sound like a ghost story but the enormity of the situation is not lost on someone like myself who has been known to enjoy a daring hitch hike with my sisters on occasion. Of course I am from a small Caribbean where murders are few and caring motorists are many.
The murders of women--most of them Aboriginal--along Canada's Highway 16 in British Columbia stirred advocates to request a shuttle service to reduce hitchhiking on the dangerous road. A year later, women are still sticking their thumbs out.The Highway of Tears MISSING and MURDERED are officially thirty three, however, the numbers are believed to be much higher with cases going back as far as 1969. That amounts to thirty years of young, mostly Native girls disappearing.
There are a few websites dedicated to the missing but I thought that I should add my two cents because firstly, I am a young woman and ultimately as a human being this does concern me greatly.
For 3 decades now over 36 females have disappeared along desolateHighway 16 in Canada, which winds for 450 miles from the Rockies to the Pacific. Along this remote highway, women, mostly in their teens and 20s, have been found murdered in the past 30 years. Dozens more have disappeared.
My heart goes out to these young women and their families and they will be forever in my thoughts and prayers. Below are the links to the various websites where you can find more information about these happenings.
Adios...Cherry
