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PHOTOS/VIDEO: Hope MMIW Take Back Canada rally remembers April Parisian

Rallies for MMIW took place across Canada on March 13

Across the Fraser Valley and Canada, voices rose for murdered and missing Indigenous women on Saturday afternoon.

Dozens of rally attendees joined MMIW Takes Back Canada rallies across the country in raising red-painted signs, voices and drums, calling for no more stolen sisters and spreading awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

A number of people in Chilliwack and Hope walked for April Parisian, a woman who went missing from her community of Spuzzum almost a year ago.

April Lee-Ann Parisian is described by police as an Indigenous female in her mid-40s with blonde hair and blue eyes, 170 centimetres (5 feet 7 inches) tall, weighing 127 kilograms (280 pounds.). Her family last heard from her on April 5, 2020.

Anyone with information on Parisian or her whereabouts should call the IHIT information line at 1-877-551-4448, or by email at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca. Should you wish to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

There is a Facebook group at Facebook.com/groups/searchforapril with consistent updates and information on ways to help bringing April home, including saying prayers, participating in active searches, posting flyers to keep April’s search in the public eye and donating to fundraising efforts.


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