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TAICHE, BRITISH COLUMBIA - APRIL 25: The Basil family search a deserted hunterâs cabin for any evidence of Mackie Basil's disappearence on April 25, 2016 in the remote wilderness outside of the village of Taiche, British Columbia. The Basil family strongly suspects a local poacher was somehow involved in Mackieâs murder, but without a body or even any evidence that a crime took place, there is no proof to charge him. Mackie, 26, disappeared in June of 2013, leaving a son behind in Taiche. 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)