The public is invited to gather at Our Place on Sunday for the Stolen Sisters March, an event to remember Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people who have been murdered or gone missing.
Marchers will assemble at 11:30 a.m. at the 919 Pandora Ave. facility before proceeding down Pandora to Government Street and then to the legislature, where there will be speakers, songs and food.
Victoria police advise that there will be brief traffic disruptions during the event.
“We at VicPD both recognize and remember all Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people who have gone missing or have been murdered, as well as honour their families, loved ones and communities,” police said in a statement. “We do so in part by continuing our search for missing Esquimalt Indigenous woman Belinda Cameron in our effort to help her family find answers.”
Cameron, 42 at the time and a mother of two young girls, was last seen on May 11, 2005 at the Shoppers Drug Mart in the 800-block of Esquimalt Road. Her disappearance is being investigated as a homicide.
She was five-foot-eight and 170 pounds with a medium to large build, and had long, dark-brown hair that she wore parted in the middle. She had dark-brown eyes and wore silver-framed glasses.
Her daughters are now adults and are hoping to find out more about what happened to her.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Victoria Police Department’s Historical Case Review Office at 250-995-7390, or report anonymously to Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
