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SMITHERS, BRITISH COLUMBIA - APRIL 24: A dream catcher with a photograph of Ramona Wilson sits in the back of her sister, Brenda's, car on April 24, 2016 outside of Smithers, British Columbia. Ramona Wilson, was murdered in 1994 when she was 16. She had left her house to go to a dance several towns away, but never made it. Almost a year later, her body was discovered in a patch of woods near the Smithers airport. During the time her family was searching for Ramona, two other teenage girls were murdered off of highway 16. Canadaâs Route 16, which connects Prince George with Prince Rupert and runs for 450 miles through the province of British Columbia, has been given the nickname of the Highway of Tears. Along this east to west road, it is estimated that as many as forty First Nations women and girls have been murdered or disappeared. Across Canada, it is estimated that between 1980 and 2014, as many as 1,200 native women and girls were murdered or vanished. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)