This is Highway 16. They call it the Highway of Tears.
Fireside chat with Cage by Bill Muise
Episode notes
June 11, 1994. Smithers, BC. 16-year-old Ramona Wilson left to meet friends and never came home. Highway 16 stretches 719km through northern BC. No buses. No cell service. For decades, women traveling this road disappeared. This is the story of Ramona, Alberta, and the mothers who refused to let them become statistics.
Keywords
Highway of Tears, Highway 16 BC, Ramona Wilson, Alberta Williams, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, MMIW Canada, Project E-PANA, Smithers BC, Prince Rupert, Matilda Wilson, Florence Naziel, RCMP, Canadian true crime