Red Dress Day: Prince Albert remembers missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
On Friday, schools and businesses in Prince Albert have been seen with red dresses hanging in their windows and by the street to symbolize an ongoing epidemic in Canada.
Started in 2010, May 5 marks Red Dress Day to remember the over 1,000 missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across the country, by displaying empty red dresses in public spaces or wearing red dresses.
May 5 was also the birthday of Lisa Marie Young, a Tla-o-qui-aht woman who suspiciously disappeared from Nanaimo, B.C., while at a Canada Day event in 2002. After hundreds of calls and tips on her whereabouts, she still remains missing nearly 21 years later.
Inspired by the work of Métis artist Jaime Black that would go on to spark the REDress Project, here’s a look at some of the places in our city that hung red dresses to honour the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
