Highway Of Tears Research Paper

Highway Of Tears

The Highway of Tears is a stretch of pavement that runs through central British Columbia. This road has caused many devastating moments in the 19-20th century. There has been many first nation and metis women murdered or gone missing along this highway. this essay will be explaining why this highway is so devastating to first nations and metis. The Highway Of Tears is actually highway 16. This road goes from Prince George BC all the way to Prince Rupert BC. This highway spans a whopping 720 Km/450 mi. The reason this highway is so famous is because of all that has happened there. It all started in 1969 that is when the first murders started, it was a First Nation woman named Gloria Moody. There has only been 9 murders on the Highway of tears where the women wasn’t of first nation descent. On the highway of tears there has only been 19 women found dead but they estimate that 40 plus metis and first nation women live there.

All the unsolved murders and disappearances started in the late 60’s. the last disappearances was in 2011 and the last murder was in 2006 the most deaths in a row started in 1969 and ended in 1981 there was 6 murders that they could identify, but the RCMP says there

It also really affects the economy because when people hear about these deaths they would never want to travel down this road which is the biggest highway in all of BC. So people stop traveling down this highway to go on a vacation in BC because they are to scared to travel down there. This is terrifying to first nations to because it has only been first nations being murdered there. Why would Canada’s first people want to stay in a place like that if there people are getting murder and going missing every year and why would they want to leave there when the land is so productive for food and everything they want, but people are taking it away from