Kathleen Leary, 66, was a mother of four and a grandmother. She was from Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, and worked as the reserve’s executive director of health services. Winnipeg Police found her with injuries to her upper body in her Winnipeg home on May 19, 2015. She later died of her injuries. On May 21, 2015, Winnipeg Police charged a youth with second-degree murder. The charge was later upgraded to first-degree murder. The youth was known to her and cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. He was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to three years on Sept. 5, 2018. Since his arrest he has gone through counseling with First Nations Elders and family, the judge ordered the rest of his sentence be served at home with his mother under conditional circumstances.

Katie Sylvia Ballantyne was a 40-year-old mother of four when a friend reported her missing to the Edmonton Police Service on May 5, 2003. A farmer found Ballantyne’s remains in a field near Leduc, Alberta on July 7, 2003. The KARE unit, an RCMP entity that investigates files of murdered or missing vulnerable persons in Alberta, is handling the homicide. Family members say they last met with investigators in 2013, but learned no new details.

Kellie was born Richard Little in 1969 in Campbell River, B.C. According to Wally Oppal’s 2012 missing women report, when Little was three, she and her siblings were taken from their mother and placed in foster care. Kellie had significant physical difficulties, including a hair lip, only one kidney, jaw deformity, dental problems that required jaw screws and severe hearing loss. She had a troubled youth, attempted suicide when she was 15 and spent time in jail as an adult. Oppal’s report says at some point, Kellie began dressing as a woman and taking hormones. In April 1997, 28-year-old Kellie stayed overnight with a friend of Robert Pickton’s. She went downtown to work in Vancouver’s Lower East Side and was never seen again. Her landlady reported her missing. It was unusual for her to be away that long and to neglect her pet cat.

Kelly Goforth, 21, is described as the pillar of her family in her obituary – as a young woman with a heart of gold. She was a mother of a young boy. Goforth was found dead in a Regina alley in September 2013. In September 2016, Clayton Eichler pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He accepted the responsibility for killing Goforth and another First Nations woman, Richele Bear. He was sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 20 years. In 2017, Goforth’s mother shared her story at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry in Saskatoon.

Kelly Morrisseau, 27, was a mother of three and seven months pregnant with a fourth child. On Dec. 10, 2006, she was found naked in a pool of blood, clinging to life in Gatineau Park. In December 2016, the Gatineau police began asking for the public’s help and released new details about her murder. Some people have questioned why these details were withheld for 10 years and not announced during the original investigation.

Krystal Andrews, 22, was going to marry her high school sweetheart in 2016. She was a mother of two young children, described as a kind, loving and humble woman. A family member says the day before she was found dead she had called her fiance to tell him she was on her way home from a friend’s place. She never made it home. Krystal was found dead in an isolated area on God’s Lake First Nation on Nov. 9, 2015. In March 2018, RCMP arrested Michael William Okemow, 37, from God’s Lake Narrows. He was charged with second-degree murder. His trial is ongoing. People in the community were angry that it took more than two years to charge Okemow.

Krystle Ann Knott, 16, loved animals, and planned to become a veterinarian. On Feb. 18, 2005 she was seen for the last time at Alberta’s West Edmonton Mall. Her skull was found near Grande Prairie, Alberta on May 21, 2011. The KARE unit, an RCMP entity that investigates files of murdered or missing vulnerable persons in Alberta, is handling the homicide. Krystle’s aunt has contact with investigators, but says there are no leads.

Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman who died on September 28, 2020 in the Centre hospitalier de Lanaudière in Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec. Before her death, she recorded a Facebook Live video that showed her screaming in distress and healthcare workers abusing her. Echaquan, a mother of seven from Manawan, had been frequently visiting the hospital since 2014. She had prior heart complications that required a pacemaker. Due to Echaquan distrusting medical staff and not being fluent in French, she would record Facebook Live videos during her hospital visits and have a cousin translate for her. Another cousin said that Echaquan would often talk about medical staff seeming “fed up” with her and would only make sure she was not in pain, rather than actually treating her. Echaquan was admitted to the hospital on September 26, 2020 for stomach pains. She was restrained to her bed and given morphine on September 28, despite her concerns that she would have an adverse reaction to it. Echaquan live-streamed for seven minutes on September 28. During the Livestream, at least two hospital employees are heard insulting her in French. While Echaquan was moaning in pain, an employee asked her if she is “done acting stupid.” Another employee told Echaquan that she “made some bad choices” and asked what her children would be thinking if they saw her, where she quietly responded with: “That’s why I came here.” Echaquan was also told that she is only “good for sex,” the employees were the ones “paying for this,” and that she was “stupid as hell.”Echaquan died later that day. According to her family, she was allergic to morphine. One employee, a nurse, was dismissed from the hospital on September 29. A second employee, an orderly, was dismissed on October 1. Another incident where Echaquan was mistreated by hospital staff happened in late August 2020. 33-year-old Jennifer Mac Donald, a patient attendant at a local Alzheimer’s centre who was at the hospital to support her father, overheard Echaquan screaming in a nearby cubicle and expressing concerns about her treatment. Mac Donald described Echaquan’s medical attendants as “indifferent” and ``verbally aggressive,” said they were ignoring her pleas, and overheard a nurse ask: “will she ever shut up?” She approached Echaquan at one point to see if she could help, but was told by staff to “mind her own business.” Mac Donald did not know the woman being mistreated in August was Echaquan until she saw the Facebook Live video and recognized her. The Quebec premier, François Legault, condemned the medical staff’s comments to Echaquan and called them “racist”.[9] However, he denied systemic racism in Quebec nor having any involvement in her death. The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, called the incident “the worst form of racism.” Marc Miller, the Canadian federal Minister of Indigenous Services, met Echaquan’s son, Thomas-James, and apologized to her family for the incident.

Jennifer was 28 years old when she disappeared from Downtown Eastside Vancouver around December 27th, 1999. She had developed an addiction to cocaine and was involved in sex trafficking to support her habit. Sadly, DNA, clothing, and blood belonging to Jennifer was discovered on the pig farm of serial killer Robert Pickton who has since self-reported murdering 49 sex workers, many of them indigenous. It is believed that Jennifer was one of his victims. Jennifer was adopted by a non-native family as a toddler. Her home has been described by friends as “loving” but Jennifer struggled with her identity being the only Native in her family and community. She was an artist and a beloved friend. May Jennifer rest in peace.

Janet Gail Henry, 36, of the ‘Namgis First Nation was last seen in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1997. In the last year before she disappeared, Henry called her sister every day; the last message she left was on June 25, 1997. Henry was known to have worked in the sex trade to support her drug and alcohol use, according to a 2012 report from the B.C. Missing Women Commission.

Jane Louise Sutherland, 19, nicknamed as “Jeano” was originally from the Moose Cree First Nation in Ontario. She relocated to Ottawa in spring 1982. Sutherland wanted to finish high school so she could begin administrative studies at university. Two years later, in 1984, her body was found in the Jacques Cartier Park, in Hull, Quebec. She had been strangled and her skull crushed. The Hull Police oversee Jane’s case.

Janice Cher Desjarlais,​35, was last seen climbing into a dumpster with her boyfriend outside the Centre of Hope in Fort McMurray, AB. They were looking for a place to sleep. The RCMP says a surveillance ​camera ​shows her boyfriend leaving the dumpster in the morning, and then a garbage truck emptying​ the dumpster. Police did not find anything after a nine-day search of a landfill. She was reported missing on Oct. 3, 2010.