By Olivia McDonald

A Red Dress To Remember

Sep 9, 2018 | 2:38 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Dozens of red dresses were held high with pride on Sunday. The red dress campaign took place just in front of Mr PG who was waving a red dress himself. 

Men, women and children took a stand holding empty red dresses, to represent the missing and murdered women and girls. The campaign is the give a voice back to those who have been taken too soon and remember who they were. The day continued down at Lheidli Tenneh Memorial Park where the dresses were hung in the trees. Speakers, entertainers and drumming filled the park before a candlelit vigil to close the day. Tammy Miese, the President of Prince George Red Dress Society expressed what it meant to her to have so many people take part in the day. 

“It’s overwhelming, and when you do the work for the campaign you realize it’s a bigger issue than you know. When you go down and put a tent up so many people come that have been affected by it and every year it gets bigger and bigger and it grows because really it’s providing a safe space for a healing journey right? It’s a very individualized healing journey for each one of us. When you look around obviously these people have been affected whether it’s their grandmother, mother, sister, aunty or their best friend like my best friend who was murdered.”