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1,200.
It is almost unintelligible to have no names and faces or some way to record the numbers of pain and loss.
There are some lists online.
Hundreds of names and photos.
But the information is short-lived, scroll to the view and disappear.
The next name, then the next one.
There are calls for investigation, labeling, political slogans, but there is still nothing that can be truly understood and approached.
The Toronto Star has established its own database of indigenous women murdered and missing in an attempt to attach as many details as possible to 1,200 cases.
This allows us to draw points on the map, a bird\'s-
Views on destruction, but few other than that.
A family in Ontario offers a hug to welcome the stars into their home and also to welcome them not to be able to pass.
The three sisters are talking about a family torn apart by violence and then gathered together by looking for answers.
When the star first approached, the surviving children and relatives of the sisters did not know how Catherine McKinney died or where she was.
The reason Sarah Mason was stabbed
Or if the murderer who killed Edith Kouton was caught and punished.
The star wanted to find the answer and it was time for the family to give it a try.
\"She was taken away,\" said Janice Henderson, a daughter of Edith quagong and head of the first nation of mitangjiami.
\"I don\'t want her to be forgotten.
\"Under the monotonous charge of 1,200 people, the three sisters are just one of the stories hidden in police and court files and the memories left behind.
Edith quagong: \"Hard Life\" November.
1978, close to midnight, the police opened the hatch and pointed the flashlight to the basement stairs.
At the bottom, rotten bodies are wearing blue jackets and black shoes. The half-
The Naked Woman lies face down on an old mattress surrounded by broken glass, abandoned stove, bloodstained kitchen countertop and smoky --
A pair of brown glasses.
The man in the forensic office turned the woman over and found two stab wounds, half of each. inch wide.
Her death certificate says Edith Lucille quagong, 43, is from the Manitoba city Reserve, Ontario.
It was then called the city of Manitoba rapids, and it was Quagon-
Listed as a \"pagan\" in her Indian birth record\"
Her sister Catherine and Sarah were raised by fur catcher.
For the children of the sisters and other surviving relatives, perhaps the passage of time has blurred the memory.
Or their forced adoption breaks the chain of family relationships and reliable information.
They had only a few photos of their sisters, including pictures of Edith at a boarding school, wearing bulky glasses and grinning.
And a copy of her baptism and marriage certificate.
At the age of 21, she insisted on recording, catcher Alan Henderson. “I miss my mom.
I have been there for a long time, \"said James Henderson, Edith\'s son, who is the drum keeper of his reserve team, the first nation of mitaankagaminen, which
\"She worked in the logging camp and lived a hard life.
Like one of the men, she undressed outside
Cut, throw pulp wood around.
She was outspoken.
Nothing was taken from anyone and she supported what she said.
I was worried about her because of this.
In January 1978, then Peterborough student Janice Henderson was nervous but excited about the upcoming trip to Minneapolis.
She hopes to reunite with her mother Edith.
Henderson hasn\'t seen her for years, though her childhood memories are short.
\"I remember her singing and humming before.
I remember in her arms she would comb my hair.
I remember it was really comforting.
\"In the exclusive news of 1960s, an 8-year-
Old Henderson was taken away by the child service and forced into foster care.
Sister James and Donna Mary were also taken away.
\"My mother said that things are hard for her, but she can at least find kindness in people.
James said, \"after drinking a few years of wine and getting angry with his mother\'s death, he decided to honor her life by working as an addiction counselor to heal others.
In the winter of that year, Janice and his uncle lived in Minneapolis and planned to go for a week.
Edith called Janice on the first day and said she would see her soon.
Janice got the same call the next day.
The next day.
\"She would say, \'I am afraid you don\'t like me.
Quagon, who was separated from her husband, moved to Minni apores in early 1970.
She lives with a man, loses her job and drinks.
The tattoo on her shoulder says \"Edith Barney \".
\"Two hours before Janice left, Quagon showed up on the weekend.
\"I was sitting in the living room.
I\'m waiting for her to come over and hug me, \"Janis recalls, who is now in charge of the ogibawa Reserve, which is about 350 kilometers west of Lei Wan.
\"In the end, we did say a few words, but there was really nothing substantive about it.
Then I had to leave.
I don\'t want that moment.
\"Janice returned to Peterborough, and Edith returned to her apartment on the second floor of 818. 10th St.
James Henderson recently drove to Minneapolis to visit friends.
On the wheel of his pickup truck, he went through an underground passage and felt his chest tightened and his breathing was rapid.
He realized that he was near the intersection of S. 10th and E. 14th Sts.
Nearly 40 years ago, how and why Edith\'s life ended there.
Crime scene description, witness statement, Transcript of apparent confession
Neither James nor his brothers or sisters knew about it.
Until the star discovered the documents, all the children of Quagon had heard about the arrest of a man and set the date of the trial. The strike by the staff of the crime lab led to the dismissal of the case and no one went to prison.
Donna Marie Anderson knows nothing, although she sees her mother\'s name on a website dedicated to murdered and missing aboriginal women, the list reminds her of a war
On the most recent afternoon, Anderson, 53, who lives in Lei Wan, began reading the newly acquired police files and then grabbed a blanket from the sofa and wiped his eyes.
\"It reads like a nightmare,\" Anderson said . \"“Is this real?
\"Unknown Indian women.
Pat Hartigan sat in the interrogation room facing the suspect.
After some preliminaries
Name, address, brief discussion on the man\'s decision to speak without the presence of a lawyer --
Hartigan asked Robert Timberlake, who was out of work. year-
What happened to old Edith quagong?
The suspect began to say, \"I stretched out my knife . . . . . . \" Hartigan seems to have solved the case.
That was the evening of November.
1978, it has been three days since Quagon\'s rotten body was found at the foot of the basement stairs of the Minni aporius apartment building.
Originally marked as \"unknown Indian woman \".
Hartigan is not the number one homicide detective in the department.
However, he is highly efficient and respected by colleagues and people at the bottomand-
He often comforts himself by drinking coffee or eating.
He is tall and easy to quote from the Bible, and he is patient and trusted to conduct an orderly investigation.
Hartigan was appointed partner of Quagon four years ago.
Minnesota police of the year.
Three armed robbery suspects seized the country club supermarket and hijacked 55 hostages.
As police snipers waited for their chance, hatigen and one of his colleagues had been negotiating for six hours and persuaded the three gunmen to release all the hostages and surrender.
\"He is a dedicated person,\" said Tony Bouza, former Minni aporius police chief . \".
\"Hartigan really wants to see justice done.
This guy is a reliable citizen.
\"In the early stages of the investigation, dinblack, a resident of the building, told officials that two unknown Indian men had brought a woman into his apartment.
These people did not say who they were or what they were doing.
Timberlake said he grabbed a tube and drove them away.
Another witness said that the last time the victim was met was an American indigenous man named Michael belgom.
However, the police pointed out that the bear ghost had no legs and used a wheelchair, and the only basement passage was a wooden staircase that entered through the trap door.
Account for 15-1year-
An old resident named Lori caught two Indian men.
One of the Indians carried a switch blade, she said.
Lori was nervous when she stood outside the apartment building and told her story.
She could see Timberlake standing in the crowd.
None of the witnesses claimed to know a lot about the murdered woman.
However, during the two days of the investigation, the police found the body.
The doctor found the blade piercing her heart.
About 24 to 40 hours before the discovery, she was dead, and on the outside and on the ground, residents of Elliott Park were walking on the snow sidewalk of S. and rotting in the messy and dirty basement. 10th St.
Quagon lives in his 818 s. 10th St.
822 from the crime scene. There are two doors.
Although both addresses are part of the lower-rise brownstone apartment building.
When the police opened the doorto-
The police got a message that sounded credible.
A woman ran a group home and called the killing squad, saying that a former resident had told her that he had seen a body in a building, A man is at the top of the basement stairs.
Hartigan learned that the young man is the boyfriend of the 15-year-old girl Lori. year-
There are two elderly people involved in Native America.
The young man recognized Timberlake, a black man with a goat beard, and said he heard him say, \"I dug her heart out.
Hartigan took Lori to the TV station to talk about \"what really happened \".
Lori flipped through her story and said in the early hours of November.
At the age of 12, Quagon and Timberlake had other people drinking in the Lowry apartment. Edith —
Lori called her \"IDI\"
She got drunk and tried to steal a bad radio and fight Timberlake.
The two left Lori\'s apartment.
Thirty minutes later, Timberlake came back and Lori said he picked up a sock from the floor to wipe the knife and said, \"I killed her.
I stabbed her in the heart.
Lori said she asked Timberlake why.
\"No one stole my stuff,\" he said.
Hartigan got a search warrant for Timberlake. room apartment.
It wasn\'t until Timberlake\'s girlfriend, Beth, walked in that he found something.
The young woman was nervous at first. lipped.
Hartigan insisted, saying Timberlake left their apartment around 4: 30 in the morning. m. on Nov.
12. probably with his knife, a gray glass handle and three. inch blade.
\"Without it, he doesn\'t usually go anywhere,\" Beth said . \".
Four hours later, when Timberlake came back, Beth said he was visibly shaken, and the cuffs of his blue suit trousers were dusty.
\"Robert asked me not to mention anything about murder to anyone.
Hartigan had his goal and was about to take the next step when his phone rang.
Feeling nailed
He heard of Hartigan\'s relentless march.
Called the detective and said he was framed.
He wants to come in.
He was arrested and taken to the county prison.
In the interview room, Timberlake told Hartigan that his lawyer had just told him not to say anything.
When Hartigan left, he mentioned that the police were taking a statement from Beth at the time.
Timberlake looked surprised and threw the lawyer\'s business card on the table.
He is ready.
What happens next is recorded in two.
Page document typed by Hartigan.
13 questions and 13 short answers.
Timberlake said he went to the basement after Quagon \"made a suggestion\" but couldn\'t finish it.
She was angry, he said, and began to sway towards him.
He pulled out his knife and hit her on the neck.
When she moved to Timberlake again, he held the knife in front of him.
\"I reached out and she fell back,\" said Timberlake . \".
\"She shouted and began to come towards me again. I reached out with a knife.
She fell down on the floor.
He put a board on the door of the trap and buried Quagon.
The files show Quagon was still alive when he left.
Blood evidence shows that she crawled down the floor to the stairs before losing her strength and life.
The story of Timberlake was redundant.
The entire communication with Hartigan lasted only a few minutes.
After the delay caused by the strike of the crime lab staff, Timberlake was tried on July 1979.
Information for decades
The old file is incomplete and only provides clues about what might happen next.
According to a document, Timberlake\'s lawyer asked the judge to dismiss the statement given to Hartigan for violating his client\'s rights.
A supplementary report from Hartigan shows an interview record for a teenager
On January 1979, shortly after Timberlake was released on bail, suspects were overheard trying to get witnesses to change their story.
It is not known whether the witness revoked the testimony.
The evidence seen and heard by the jurors is also unclear.
They thought about it for three hours before they found Timberlake innocent. degree murder.
Timberlake passed away in last March. He was 58.
Timberlake\'s daughter, who was not born when Quagon was killed, declined to comment on the article, saying, \"My dad is gone and we want to remember the person we know.
Hartigan retired in 1987, and died in 2006.
In the city of Manitoba Rapids Reserve, now known as the first nation of the rainy season, Quagon is buried in a row of family graves near a tree line.
Her sister Catherine McKinney is not far from where she is resting.
Catherine McKinney: thin woman who hitchhiking
Long hair fell in the middle of the road.
A car went around the corner and the headlights lit up her jeans and shirts, making a sharp turn and almost missed her.
This section of the highway. 1 was unlit.
Cloudy that night on April 3, 1978.
The driver later told the RCMP: \"She waved her arms as if to stop us . \".
\"She seemed dazed and when I spoke to her she didn\'t seem to understand what I was talking about.
Witnesses said the woman had no smell of alcohol.
Some drivers, including the truck driver, have stopped in an attempt to persuade her to leave the road.
There are things that excite her, but no one knows what it is.
She returned to the highway and stood waving her arms.
There are different stories about Catherine McKinney\'s relatives.
She was said to have been killed in B. C.
Or in Alberta, her attackers were never found.
Another said she died in a car accident, although it was not clear where it was.
Her 51-year-old son, Robert Karman, heard that his mother was a prostitute and was thrown out of John\'s car before being killed.
Diane Gessler, her 52-year-old daughter, also heard the stories, and everyone felt cold and empty.
They know very little about their mothers, in part because in 1965, children\'s services took them away from the Manitoba Rapids Reserve in Northwest Ontario.
Diane, 2, and Robert, 1, were Foster, separated, and then adopted.
This is true for families in the Fort Francis area.
Kalkman\'s adoptive parents moved to Vancouver later.
There are no photos of Gessler.
Over the years, she has tried several times to find official documents to clarify the death and life of her mother.
\"She is . . . . . . A quiet and shy person, \"she learned in 1991 letter from the children\'s service.
\"You were about 15 years old when you were born . . . . . . Unable to plan for your care.
There is no means of economic support.
\"There is no mention of the father.
As a mother, Gessler has little time to browse government agencies that may have more answers.
She then saw mackinnes\'s name on the website listing the murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada and decided it was time to dig again.
A relative told Gessler that in early 1978, McKinney heard that one of her children might live in Vancouver and then go west.
\"She took a ride from Lei Wan to see if she could keep up with the thread.
She has never been there . \"
\"She didn\'t find what she wanted.
I think I need to finish that journey for her.
The first solid lead is in spring when the stars find one or two
Paragraph article of the Calgary Herald April 4, 1978 edition.
The headline is \"women are killed \".
The night before, according to the newspaper, the mounted police were on the highway.
Just outside Calgary, a death was being investigated.
No name mentioned
The RCMP told the star this summer that it had no information about death, and that there was only one index card with the name mackinnes on it.
Star and Gessler then made a request for freedom of information to the Alberta forensic office for any documents relating to Catherine McKinney.
The provincial archives have more than 20 pages of archives, some of which are from the RCMP investigation.
Two months later, many of the documents under review arrived.
29-\"route\" of death\"year-
The old woman lies on a highway about 10 kilometers from downtown Calgary.
The troopers of the Strathmore detachment found that her right leg was 130 metres from the others.
The amputation left a huge trunk wound that exposed the abdominal organs.
On the evening of April, on a cool night near Lake Chestermere, the police looked at the dead woman, her brown eyes and broken teeth.
She lay on the back of the right West Lane, with bloody personal belongings scattered in her nose and mouth.
The documents in her wallet prove her identity and are in S. Algoma St. in Thunder Bay. It was 9:25 p. m.
April 3, 1978.
The size and photos of the scene were taken.
A police officer called Lei Wan police, who was looking for a close relative.
The search was unsuccessful.
The mounted police found a friend who knew McKinney.
In the following days, police found relatives confirming the left ear perforation of the body, left eardrum scar and left lower eye mole, relatives of Catherine mackinnes.
It is not clear from the documents reviewed who received the notice or what they were told.
It was suggested to contact the victim\'s mother, Anne McKinney, but the details were blacked out.
At that time, two of Catherine\'s children were teenage children who did not know the identity of the mother and her death.
Two other witnesses made statements that night.
One witness testimony was fully reviewed and the other was almost completely reviewed.
The RCMP removed any information that could identify witnesses on the grounds of privacy concerns.
The survey concluded that at 9: 20, a westbound driver bypassed a curve and saw the vehicle parked on the side of the road, but did not see the woman in dark clothes standing in the middle of the road. The post-
The autopsy found that McKinney was drunk when he died.
The RCMP report concluded that, thanks to her dark clothes and the unlit highway, \"it is conceivable that the vehicle did not see mackinnes before the impact.
\"The death was ruled an accident, after
The autopsy was classified as \"routine\" and was not urgent.
No autopsy required
The provincial attorney general\'s office said no charges should be made.
While the newly acquired records provide Gessler and Kalkman with clear information about their mother\'s last moments, they still do not answer key questions.
\"She was listed as intoxicated, but it was a bare highway.
It\'s not like she got hit from the bar.
There\'s nothing around, \"said Gessler.
\"How did she get there?
\"Why is she fidgety and trying to mark cars and trucks?
Weather records show the temperature near freezing that night.
The forensic does not include coats or shoes on her clothing list.
Why is she dressed in rural areas 10 kilometers outside the city?
\"I closed my eyes and thought: it is April. It’s cold.
She had no shoes on her feet, on the highway (
In that position)
Her son, Robert, said: \"She either jumped off the car or was thrown out . \" Robert, 51, is a scaffolding worker in B. Chetwynd. C.
\"Things have passed and she is trying to restructure.
She waved her arms wildly and said help, man.
\"Also reviewed any details of the car that attacked the driver, mackinnes, and what he or she told the police.
It is not clear whether the driver stayed at the scene.
\"She came to B. C.
She was killed in doing so to find me, \"karkman said.
\"It makes me feel like s--t.
\"The Ministry of Indian Affairs and the Manitoba band office were notified and arrangements were made to send the bodies to Ontario for burial.
The city of Manitoba Rapids Reserve held a funeral for McKinney.
The coffin is closed.
Seven months after she died on the highway
Her sister Edith quagong was stabbed and rotted in the dirty basement of an apartment building.
Fifteen years later, Sarah Mason, the third sister, was stabbed to death.
All three are from the city of Manitoba Rapids Reserve.
All were forced into boarding schools.
Two of them later deprived their children in their 60 s of exclusive news.
Kalkman said it was not surprising that the sisters were in pain and drank wine at the end of a short life.
Pushed to the edge and died there.
\"God . . . . . . The trauma experienced by a person . . . . . . Amazing.
\"How is your life deprived,\" Kalkman said . \". “Three mothers. Three sisters.
I\'m sorry these women had to die like they did.
\"When the police find Sarah Mason\'s faint pulse, his partner is heading towards the neighboring apartment and she is about to go home,\" said Sarah Mason . \".
The police officer saw the front door open.
A man sat on the sofa watching TV and heard a voice all the way.
The police officer shouted, \"What happened?
There is blood on men\'s jeans and cotton plaid shirts.
He stared at the front and said nothing.
The handle of the knife can be seen next to the man\'s right thigh, and the blade is hidden under the fabric of the perforated mat.
There are five empty bottles on the floor of Molson, Canada.
There was an unopened bottle of rum on the table.
Empty bottles of London Sherry and chocolate hearts.
Valentine\'s Day 1993.
A blood trail leads to the front door of the apartment, where 42-year-
Old Mason had a bleeding chest, and she staggered into the hall, knocked on the neighbor\'s door, and gasped for 911 calls.
Police officer Lei Wan almost shouted this time and asked the man again, \"What\'s the matter? !
\"Sarah Mason walked out of the house on Halloween night 1980 with her wallet and promises to take her kids on a prank --or-
She came back from the corner shop for treatment.
Her oldest child, Thomas, recalled his parents fighting earlier in the day.
He is 11 years old and doesn\'t feel anything about his mother\'s frustration.
\"She is a strong woman.
She has a good sense of humor.
She always laughs.
\"We always thought she was happy,\" Thomas said . \" Thomas, 46, is a teacher of the Minnesota White Earth nation.
Sarah, the housewife, is a survivor of a boarding school;
Her husband, Hank, a former logging worker, is taking a course to become an addiction consultant.
He taught the children how to hunt, fish and fish.
The children also learned how to harvest wild rice from the shoal.
They live in the international falls of Minnesota. Sarah beaded.
She was meticulous and clever with floral patterns and spent hours at a time making ceremonial outfits for Hank and their children.
She is also a talented traditional dancer who often takes part in her metal dance competition
As she stepped and shuffled, the clingle gown was shining and clingling.
\"She seemed very happy when she danced.
Like she was flying, \"recalled another relative. She drank.
Recently, Sarah was overwhelmed by the demands to take care of six little guys and was unable to quit drinking.
He wanted her to stay awake for the children.
When the children put on their clothes, Sarah went around the corner shop and went to Fort Francis, Ontario.
Then, two days later, east to Lei Wan.
\"About a year later, we only heard from her,\" Thomas recalled . \".
\"She was drunk when she called.
\"I love my children,\" she said, and all these things.
I said, if you love us, you will be with us.
Thomas visited him intermittently over the years, when he was a willful young man who needed to escape from a bad relationship or disorderly allegations of conduct.
She called him Tommy.
She told him that she had left because she felt she was about to suffocate and needed some space.
Thomas recalled that sometimes his parents discussed her coming back, but she stayed in Thunder Bay and had a drink.
This may change on the evening of 1993 Valentine\'s Day.
Mason\'s neighbor, Jacques mikud, called 911 to tell an official that Mason told him earlier that day that she was going on a trip to the West.
She asked Michael to tell her family about her departure.
Jean-legal spouse
Claude Gagne and Mason live in the back apartment on the first floor, 218 Manitoba Street.
The star learned this from court and police records, some of which were not made public and were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
When Thomas Mason was interviewed by The Star newspaper near his hometown of Minnesota caraway, he heard the details.
His face turned pale and his voice whispered.
\"Just a few days before her death, maybe four or five days, Dad got a call from her and she asked him if he could go home.
Dad said, \"you can go home.
But you need to wake up.
. . . . . . She\'s going home.
When Gagne returned to Manitoba Street.
Mason was still at home that Valentine\'s night.
\"This is just a quarrel of Justice Platana:\" Mr. Platana
Gagne, do you have anything to say before I make the ruling? ”Jean-
Claude Gagne: \"I really want to go, your Honour, but I don\'t remember anything.
Gagne pleaded guilty four months ago, on this day.
1993. he waited for the verdict.
He said he was unconscious.
He said nothing. No explanation. No remorse.
The transcript of the sentencing hearing described Sarah Mason\'s death as a regrettable, inconspicuous accident.
Although Gagne was initially charged with the first
The charge accepted by the judge was intentional homicide.
Counsel noted that it was reported that Gagne had told an officer at the scene that he was responsible, but that he was drunk and had no known history of violence, \"a little older.
The 56-year-old, who was a logging worker, lost a leg in 1987.
He lives on compensation for work-related injuries and pensions.
He is from Quebec and has four children before marriage.
There was little mention of Sarah Mason in court, except that she also drank on Valentine\'s Day.
\"It\'s really an alcohol.
Gagne\'s lawyer told the judge: \"This is a related incident.
\"I also ask you to understand that this is not a battle . . . . . . It\'s just a blow.
This is unfortunate for Sir
The explosion killed the victim, but that\'s what happened.
Gagne was sentenced to five years\' imprisonment, half of which was eligible for parole.
The hearing lasted about 30 minutes.
\"We have never really been told the reason why Gagne did this,\" said Sarah\'s son, Thomas Mason . \".
\"The day we heard this, I was really angry.
I don\'t agree.
I don\'t think it\'s fair to my mom.
Police files reveal some details from Thomas.
Waiting for what happened to his mother.
\"One Blow\" is 10-inch Skyline-
The brand knife stabbed her heart with enough strength.
Although the court heard that there was no fight, the officer who approached Gagne heard something else.
The police officer asked Gagne twice: \"What\'s the matter?
Gagne finally said, \"she wants to play with me.
I protect myself.
The officer reached out to get the wooden handle of the knife, pulled the blade from the sofa, and, with the help of his partner, arrested Gagne.
They took him to Balmoral Street. police station.
Neighbor Jacques Mishaw told the police that he was making dinner when he heard Gagne go home, and the TV volume next door was getting louder and louder.
I don\'t know if Mason told Gagne that she was leaving.
When the police found her
Face down, surrounded by blood and vomit, it feels cold --
Mason in a pink T-shirt
She has three gold rings on her left hand and a \"good Watch \".
She was 42 years old. Taken to St.
Joseph\'s Hospital announced his death at 7: 33. m.
Mason\'s body was transferred to the morgue. 1.
Star research shows that Mason was one of the 16 Aboriginal women killed in Canada the year she died.
\"I want to write a story with this number,\" said Thomas Mason . \".
\"I\'m not trying to honor her life.
I\'m not trying to put her on the desk.
But I don\'t want my mom to be remembered. as)
Did you know that another Aboriginal lady of worthless drunkard?
Because my mother is worth a lot of money.
\"She is alone. We’re people.
We are people like everyone else.
We should also be respected.
\"There are also details in the police file: as was the case with her sister Edith in 1978, the official cause of Sarah\'s death was a stab in her right heart.
Sarah lies in an open coffin, not far from her sisters Edith and Catherine being buried in the city of Manitoba Rapids Reserve.
Taking the cross off the coffin was a bit of a fuss.
Sarah\'s mother, Anne McKinney, raised her child in accordance with Ojibwa\'s tradition.
She wants to get rid of the cross.
The staff of the funeral home groped to meet her requirements.
The ceremony began.
Hank stayed in his seat. So did Thomas.
McGinnis, 75, approached sadly and said, \"Sarah, wake up.
\"It\'s time to get up,\" Thomas recalls . \".
Anne McKinney, born in 1917, First Nation, Ontario.
On 1998, she buried three daughters before her funeral, and her obituary in The Fort Francis Times listed her death time in chronological order of violent deaths.
After Edith, before Catherine and Sarah, there was a fourth sister.
70-year-old Mary natarwin lives in Lei Wan, only a few bus stops from the house on Manitoba Street.
\"It\'s still standing.
\"I don\'t like going there,\" she said . \".
Mary felt lonely at times, but she found that her sister\'s spirit gave her strength.
She recently sewed a blanket.
It shows three bears. Three sisters.
Three Protectors.
Star1, Toronto, 200.
It is almost unintelligible to have no names and faces or some way to record the numbers of pain and loss.
There are some lists online.
Hundreds of names and photos.
But the information is short-lived, scroll to the view and disappear.
The next name, then the next one.
There are calls for investigation, labeling, political slogans, but there is still nothing that can be truly understood and approached.
The Toronto Star has established its own database of indigenous women murdered and missing in an attempt to attach as many details as possible to 1,200 cases.
This allows us to draw points on the map, a bird\'s-
Views on destruction, but few other than that.
A family in Ontario offers a hug to welcome the stars into their home and also to welcome them not to be able to pass.
The three sisters are talking about a family torn apart by violence and then gathered together by looking for answers.
When the star first approached, the surviving children and relatives of the sisters did not know how Catherine McKinney died or where she was.
The reason Sarah Mason was stabbed
Or if the murderer who killed Edith Kouton was caught and punished.
The star wanted to find the answer and it was time for the family to give it a try.
\"She was taken away,\" said Janice Henderson, a daughter of Edith quagong and head of the first nation of mitangjiami.
\"I don\'t want her to be forgotten.
\"Under the monotonous charge of 1,200 people, the three sisters are just one of the stories hidden in police and court files and the memories left behind.
Edith quagong: \"Hard Life\" November.
1978, close to midnight, the police opened the hatch and pointed the flashlight to the basement stairs.
At the bottom, rotten bodies are wearing blue jackets and black shoes. The half-
The Naked Woman lies face down on an old mattress surrounded by broken glass, abandoned stove, bloodstained kitchen countertop and smoky --
A pair of brown glasses.
The man in the forensic office turned the woman over and found two stab wounds, half of each. inch wide.
Her death certificate says Edith Lucille quagong, 43, is from the Manitoba city Reserve, Ontario.
It was then called the city of Manitoba rapids, and it was Quagon-
Listed as a \"pagan\" in her Indian birth record\"
Her sister Catherine and Sarah were raised by fur catcher.
For the children of the sisters and other surviving relatives, perhaps the passage of time has blurred the memory.
Or their forced adoption breaks the chain of family relationships and reliable information.
They had only a few photos of their sisters, including pictures of Edith at a boarding school, wearing bulky glasses and grinning.
And a copy of her baptism and marriage certificate.
At the age of 21, she insisted on recording, catcher Alan Henderson. “I miss my mom.
I have been there for a long time, \"said James Henderson, Edith\'s son, who is the drum keeper of his reserve team, the first nation of mitaankagaminen, which
\"She worked in the logging camp and lived a hard life.
Like one of the men, she undressed outside
Cut, throw pulp wood around.
She was outspoken.
Nothing was taken from anyone and she supported what she said.
I was worried about her because of this.
In January 1978, then Peterborough student Janice Henderson was nervous but excited about the upcoming trip to Minneapolis.
She hopes to reunite with her mother Edith.
Henderson hasn\'t seen her for years, though her childhood memories are short.
\"I remember her singing and humming before.
I remember in her arms she would comb my hair.
I remember it was really comforting.
\"In the exclusive news of 1960s, an 8-year-
Old Henderson was taken away by the child service and forced into foster care.
Sister James and Donna Mary were also taken away.
\"My mother said that things are hard for her, but she can at least find kindness in people.
James said, \"after drinking a few years of wine and getting angry with his mother\'s death, he decided to honor her life by working as an addiction counselor to heal others.
In the winter of that year, Janice and his uncle lived in Minneapolis and planned to go for a week.
Edith called Janice on the first day and said she would see her soon.
Janice got the same call the next day.
The next day.
\"She would say, \'I am afraid you don\'t like me.
Quagon, who was separated from her husband, moved to Minni apores in early 1970.
She lives with a man, loses her job and drinks.
The tattoo on her shoulder says \"Edith Barney \".
\"Two hours before Janice left, Quagon showed up on the weekend.
\"I was sitting in the living room.
I\'m waiting for her to come over and hug me, \"Janis recalls, who is now in charge of the ogibawa Reserve, which is about 350 kilometers west of Lei Wan.
\"In the end, we did say a few words, but there was really nothing substantive about it.
Then I had to leave.
I don\'t want that moment.
\"Janice returned to Peterborough, and Edith returned to her apartment on the second floor of 818. 10th St.
James Henderson recently drove to Minneapolis to visit friends.
On the wheel of his pickup truck, he went through an underground passage and felt his chest tightened and his breathing was rapid.
He realized that he was near the intersection of S. 10th and E. 14th Sts.
Nearly 40 years ago, how and why Edith\'s life ended there.
Crime scene description, witness statement, Transcript of apparent confession
Neither James nor his brothers or sisters knew about it.
Until the star discovered the documents, all the children of Quagon had heard about the arrest of a man and set the date of the trial. The strike by the staff of the crime lab led to the dismissal of the case and no one went to prison.
Donna Marie Anderson knows nothing, although she sees her mother\'s name on a website dedicated to murdered and missing aboriginal women, the list reminds her of a war
On the most recent afternoon, Anderson, 53, who lives in Lei Wan, began reading the newly acquired police files and then grabbed a blanket from the sofa and wiped his eyes.
\"It reads like a nightmare,\" Anderson said . \"“Is this real?
\"Unknown Indian women.
Pat Hartigan sat in the interrogation room facing the suspect.
After some preliminaries
Name, address, brief discussion on the man\'s decision to speak without the presence of a lawyer --
Hartigan asked Robert Timberlake, who was out of work. year-
What happened to old Edith quagong?
The suspect began to say, \"I stretched out my knife . . . . . . \" Hartigan seems to have solved the case.
That was the evening of November.
1978, it has been three days since Quagon\'s rotten body was found at the foot of the basement stairs of the Minni aporius apartment building.
Originally marked as \"unknown Indian woman \".
Hartigan is not the number one homicide detective in the department.
However, he is highly efficient and respected by colleagues and people at the bottomand-
He often comforts himself by drinking coffee or eating.
He is tall and easy to quote from the Bible, and he is patient and trusted to conduct an orderly investigation.
Hartigan was appointed partner of Quagon four years ago.
Minnesota police of the year.
Three armed robbery suspects seized the country club supermarket and hijacked 55 hostages.
As police snipers waited for their chance, hatigen and one of his colleagues had been negotiating for six hours and persuaded the three gunmen to release all the hostages and surrender.
\"He is a dedicated person,\" said Tony Bouza, former Minni aporius police chief . \".
\"Hartigan really wants to see justice done.
This guy is a reliable citizen.
\"In the early stages of the investigation, dinblack, a resident of the building, told officials that two unknown Indian men had brought a woman into his apartment.
These people did not say who they were or what they were doing.
Timberlake said he grabbed a tube and drove them away.
Another witness said that the last time the victim was met was an American indigenous man named Michael belgom.
However, the police pointed out that the bear ghost had no legs and used a wheelchair, and the only basement passage was a wooden staircase that entered through the trap door.
Account for 15-1year-
An old resident named Lori caught two Indian men.
One of the Indians carried a switch blade, she said.
Lori was nervous when she stood outside the apartment building and told her story.
She could see Timberlake standing in the crowd.
None of the witnesses claimed to know a lot about the murdered woman.
However, during the two days of the investigation, the police found the body.
The doctor found the blade piercing her heart.
About 24 to 40 hours before the discovery, she was dead, and on the outside and on the ground, residents of Elliott Park were walking on the snow sidewalk of S. and rotting in the messy and dirty basement. 10th St.
Quagon lives in his 818 s. 10th St.
822 from the crime scene. There are two doors.
Although both addresses are part of the lower-rise brownstone apartment building.
When the police opened the doorto-
The police got a message that sounded credible.
A woman ran a group home and called the killing squad, saying that a former resident had told her that he had seen a body in a building, A man is at the top of the basement stairs.
Hartigan learned that the young man is the boyfriend of the 15-year-old girl Lori. year-
There are two elderly people involved in Native America.
The young man recognized Timberlake, a black man with a goat beard, and said he heard him say, \"I dug her heart out.
Hartigan took Lori to the TV station to talk about \"what really happened \".
Lori flipped through her story and said in the early hours of November.
At the age of 12, Quagon and Timberlake had other people drinking in the Lowry apartment. Edith —
Lori called her \"IDI\"
She got drunk and tried to steal a bad radio and fight Timberlake.
The two left Lori\'s apartment.
Thirty minutes later, Timberlake came back and Lori said he picked up a sock from the floor to wipe the knife and said, \"I killed her.
I stabbed her in the heart.
Lori said she asked Timberlake why.
\"No one stole my stuff,\" he said.
Hartigan got a search warrant for Timberlake. room apartment.
It wasn\'t until Timberlake\'s girlfriend, Beth, walked in that he found something.
The young woman was nervous at first. lipped.
Hartigan insisted, saying Timberlake left their apartment around 4: 30 in the morning. m. on Nov.
12. probably with his knife, a gray glass handle and three. inch blade.
\"Without it, he doesn\'t usually go anywhere,\" Beth said . \".
Four hours later, when Timberlake came back, Beth said he was visibly shaken, and the cuffs of his blue suit trousers were dusty.
\"Robert asked me not to mention anything about murder to anyone.
Hartigan had his goal and was about to take the next step when his phone rang.
Feeling nailed
He heard of Hartigan\'s relentless march.
Called the detective and said he was framed.
He wants to come in.
He was arrested and taken to the county prison.
In the interview room, Timberlake told Hartigan that his lawyer had just told him not to say anything.
When Hartigan left, he mentioned that the police were taking a statement from Beth at the time.
Timberlake looked surprised and threw the lawyer\'s business card on the table.
He is ready.
What happens next is recorded in two.
Page document typed by Hartigan.
13 questions and 13 short answers.
Timberlake said he went to the basement after Quagon \"made a suggestion\" but couldn\'t finish it.
She was angry, he said, and began to sway towards him.
He pulled out his knife and hit her on the neck.
When she moved to Timberlake again, he held the knife in front of him.
\"I reached out and she fell back,\" said Timberlake . \".
\"She shouted and began to come towards me again. I reached out with a knife.
She fell down on the floor.
He put a board on the door of the trap and buried Quagon.
The files show Quagon was still alive when he left.
Blood evidence shows that she crawled down the floor to the stairs before losing her strength and life.
The story of Timberlake was redundant.
The entire communication with Hartigan lasted only a few minutes.
After the delay caused by the strike of the crime lab staff, Timberlake was tried on July 1979.
Information for decades
The old file is incomplete and only provides clues about what might happen next.
According to a document, Timberlake\'s lawyer asked the judge to dismiss the statement given to Hartigan for violating his client\'s rights.
A supplementary report from Hartigan shows an interview record for a teenager
On January 1979, shortly after Timberlake was released on bail, suspects were overheard trying to get witnesses to change their story.
It is not known whether the witness revoked the testimony.
The evidence seen and heard by the jurors is also unclear.
They thought about it for three hours before they found Timberlake innocent. degree murder.
Timberlake passed away in last March. He was 58.
Timberlake\'s daughter, who was not born when Quagon was killed, declined to comment on the article, saying, \"My dad is gone and we want to remember the person we know.
Hartigan retired in 1987, and died in 2006.
In the city of Manitoba Rapids Reserve, now known as the first nation of the rainy season, Quagon is buried in a row of family graves near a tree line.
Her sister Catherine McKinney is not far from where she is resting.
Catherine McKinney: thin woman who hitchhiking
Long hair fell in the middle of the road.
A car went around the corner and the headlights lit up her jeans and shirts, making a sharp turn and almost missed her.
This section of the highway. 1 was unlit.
Cloudy that night on April 3, 1978.
The driver later told the RCMP: \"She waved her arms as if to stop us . \".
\"She seemed dazed and when I spoke to her she didn\'t seem to understand what I was talking about.
Witnesses said the woman had no smell of alcohol.
Some drivers, including the truck driver, have stopped in an attempt to persuade her to leave the road.
There are things that excite her, but no one knows what it is.
She returned to the highway and stood waving her arms.
There are different stories about Catherine McKinney\'s relatives.
She was said to have been killed in B. C.
Or in Alberta, her attackers were never found.
Another said she died in a car accident, although it was not clear where it was.
Her 51-year-old son, Robert Karman, heard that his mother was a prostitute and was thrown out of John\'s car before being killed.
Diane Gessler, her 52-year-old daughter, also heard the stories, and everyone felt cold and empty.
They know very little about their mothers, in part because in 1965, children\'s services took them away from the Manitoba Rapids Reserve in Northwest Ontario.
Diane, 2, and Robert, 1, were Foster, separated, and then adopted.
This is true for families in the Fort Francis area.
Kalkman\'s adoptive parents moved to Vancouver later.
There are no photos of Gessler.
Over the years, she has tried several times to find official documents to clarify the death and life of her mother.
\"She is . . . . . . A quiet and shy person, \"she learned in 1991 letter from the children\'s service.
\"You were about 15 years old when you were born . . . . . . Unable to plan for your care.
There is no means of economic support.
\"There is no mention of the father.
As a mother, Gessler has little time to browse government agencies that may have more answers.
She then saw mackinnes\'s name on the website listing the murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada and decided it was time to dig again.
A relative told Gessler that in early 1978, McKinney heard that one of her children might live in Vancouver and then go west.
\"She took a ride from Lei Wan to see if she could keep up with the thread.
She has never been there . \"
\"She didn\'t find what she wanted.
I think I need to finish that journey for her.
The first solid lead is in spring when the stars find one or two
Paragraph article of the Calgary Herald April 4, 1978 edition.
The headline is \"women are killed \".
The night before, according to the newspaper, the mounted police were on the highway.
Just outside Calgary, a death was being investigated.
No name mentioned
The RCMP told the star this summer that it had no information about death, and that there was only one index card with the name mackinnes on it.
Star and Gessler then made a request for freedom of information to the Alberta forensic office for any documents relating to Catherine McKinney.
The provincial archives have more than 20 pages of archives, some of which are from the RCMP investigation.
Two months later, many of the documents under review arrived.
29-\"route\" of death\"year-
The old woman lies on a highway about 10 kilometers from downtown Calgary.
The troopers of the Strathmore detachment found that her right leg was 130 metres from the others.
The amputation left a huge trunk wound that exposed the abdominal organs.
On the evening of April, on a cool night near Lake Chestermere, the police looked at the dead woman, her brown eyes and broken teeth.
She lay on the back of the right West Lane, with bloody personal belongings scattered in her nose and mouth.
The documents in her wallet prove her identity and are in S. Algoma St. in Thunder Bay. It was 9:25 p. m.
April 3, 1978.
The size and photos of the scene were taken.
A police officer called Lei Wan police, who was looking for a close relative.
The search was unsuccessful.
The mounted police found a friend who knew McKinney.
In the following days, police found relatives confirming the left ear perforation of the body, left eardrum scar and left lower eye mole, relatives of Catherine mackinnes.
It is not clear from the documents reviewed who received the notice or what they were told.
It was suggested to contact the victim\'s mother, Anne McKinney, but the details were blacked out.
At that time, two of Catherine\'s children were teenage children who did not know the identity of the mother and her death.
Two other witnesses made statements that night.
One witness testimony was fully reviewed and the other was almost completely reviewed.
The RCMP removed any information that could identify witnesses on the grounds of privacy concerns.
The survey concluded that at 9: 20, a westbound driver bypassed a curve and saw the vehicle parked on the side of the road, but did not see the woman in dark clothes standing in the middle of the road. The post-
The autopsy found that McKinney was drunk when he died.
The RCMP report concluded that, thanks to her dark clothes and the unlit highway, \"it is conceivable that the vehicle did not see mackinnes before the impact.
\"The death was ruled an accident, after
The autopsy was classified as \"routine\" and was not urgent.
No autopsy required
The provincial attorney general\'s office said no charges should be made.
While the newly acquired records provide Gessler and Kalkman with clear information about their mother\'s last moments, they still do not answer key questions.
\"She was listed as intoxicated, but it was a bare highway.
It\'s not like she got hit from the bar.
There\'s nothing around, \"said Gessler.
\"How did she get there?
\"Why is she fidgety and trying to mark cars and trucks?
Weather records show the temperature near freezing that night.
The forensic does not include coats or shoes on her clothing list.
Why is she dressed in rural areas 10 kilometers outside the city?
\"I closed my eyes and thought: it is April. It’s cold.
She had no shoes on her feet, on the highway (
In that position)
Her son, Robert, said: \"She either jumped off the car or was thrown out . \" Robert, 51, is a scaffolding worker in B. Chetwynd. C.
\"Things have passed and she is trying to restructure.
She waved her arms wildly and said help, man.
\"Also reviewed any details of the car that attacked the driver, mackinnes, and what he or she told the police.
It is not clear whether the driver stayed at the scene.
\"She came to B. C.
She was killed in doing so to find me, \"karkman said.
\"It makes me feel like s--t.
\"The Ministry of Indian Affairs and the Manitoba band office were notified and arrangements were made to send the bodies to Ontario for burial.
The city of Manitoba Rapids Reserve held a funeral for McKinney.
The coffin is closed.
Seven months after she died on the highway
Her sister Edith quagong was stabbed and rotted in the dirty basement of an apartment building.
Fifteen years later, Sarah Mason, the third sister, was stabbed to death.
All three are from the city of Manitoba Rapids Reserve.
All were forced into boarding schools.
Two of them later deprived their children in their 60 s of exclusive news.
Kalkman said it was not surprising that the sisters were in pain and drank wine at the end of a short life.
Pushed to the edge and died there.
\"God . . . . . . The trauma experienced by a person . . . . . . Amazing.
\"How is your life deprived,\" Kalkman said . \". “Three mothers. Three sisters.
I\'m sorry these women had to die like they did.
\"When the police find Sarah Mason\'s faint pulse, his partner is heading towards the neighboring apartment and she is about to go home,\" said Sarah Mason . \".
The police officer saw the front door open.
A man sat on the sofa watching TV and heard a voice all the way.
The police officer shouted, \"What happened?
There is blood on men\'s jeans and cotton plaid shirts.
He stared at the front and said nothing.
The handle of the knife can be seen next to the man\'s right thigh, and the blade is hidden under the fabric of the perforated mat.
There are five empty bottles on the floor of Molson, Canada.
There was an unopened bottle of rum on the table.
Empty bottles of London Sherry and chocolate hearts.
Valentine\'s Day 1993.
A blood trail leads to the front door of the apartment, where 42-year-
Old Mason had a bleeding chest, and she staggered into the hall, knocked on the neighbor\'s door, and gasped for 911 calls.
Police officer Lei Wan almost shouted this time and asked the man again, \"What\'s the matter? !
\"Sarah Mason walked out of the house on Halloween night 1980 with her wallet and promises to take her kids on a prank --or-
She came back from the corner shop for treatment.
Her oldest child, Thomas, recalled his parents fighting earlier in the day.
He is 11 years old and doesn\'t feel anything about his mother\'s frustration.
\"She is a strong woman.
She has a good sense of humor.
She always laughs.
\"We always thought she was happy,\" Thomas said . \" Thomas, 46, is a teacher of the Minnesota White Earth nation.
Sarah, the housewife, is a survivor of a boarding school;
Her husband, Hank, a former logging worker, is taking a course to become an addiction consultant.
He taught the children how to hunt, fish and fish.
The children also learned how to harvest wild rice from the shoal.
They live in the international falls of Minnesota. Sarah beaded.
She was meticulous and clever with floral patterns and spent hours at a time making ceremonial outfits for Hank and their children.
She is also a talented traditional dancer who often takes part in her metal dance competition
As she stepped and shuffled, the clingle gown was shining and clingling.
\"She seemed very happy when she danced.
Like she was flying, \"recalled another relative. She drank.
Recently, Sarah was overwhelmed by the demands to take care of six little guys and was unable to quit drinking.
He wanted her to stay awake for the children.
When the children put on their clothes, Sarah went around the corner shop and went to Fort Francis, Ontario.
Then, two days later, east to Lei Wan.
\"About a year later, we only heard from her,\" Thomas recalled . \".
\"She was drunk when she called.
\"I love my children,\" she said, and all these things.
I said, if you love us, you will be with us.
Thomas visited him intermittently over the years, when he was a willful young man who needed to escape from a bad relationship or disorderly allegations of conduct.
She called him Tommy.
She told him that she had left because she felt she was about to suffocate and needed some space.
Thomas recalled that sometimes his parents discussed her coming back, but she stayed in Thunder Bay and had a drink.
This may change on the evening of 1993 Valentine\'s Day.
Mason\'s neighbor, Jacques mikud, called 911 to tell an official that Mason told him earlier that day that she was going on a trip to the West.
She asked Michael to tell her family about her departure.
Jean-legal spouse
Claude Gagne and Mason live in the back apartment on the first floor, 218 Manitoba Street.
The star learned this from court and police records, some of which were not made public and were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
When Thomas Mason was interviewed by The Star newspaper near his hometown of Minnesota caraway, he heard the details.
His face turned pale and his voice whispered.
\"Just a few days before her death, maybe four or five days, Dad got a call from her and she asked him if he could go home.
Dad said, \"you can go home.
But you need to wake up.
. . . . . . She\'s going home.
When Gagne returned to Manitoba Street.
Mason was still at home that Valentine\'s night.
\"This is just a quarrel of Justice Platana:\" Mr. Platana
Gagne, do you have anything to say before I make the ruling? ”Jean-
Claude Gagne: \"I really want to go, your Honour, but I don\'t remember anything.
Gagne pleaded guilty four months ago, on this day.
1993. he waited for the verdict.
He said he was unconscious.
He said nothing. No explanation. No remorse.
The transcript of the sentencing hearing described Sarah Mason\'s death as a regrettable, inconspicuous accident.
Although Gagne was initially charged with the first
The charge accepted by the judge was intentional homicide.
Counsel noted that it was reported that Gagne had told an officer at the scene that he was responsible, but that he was drunk and had no known history of violence, \"a little older.
The 56-year-old, who was a logging worker, lost a leg in 1987.
He lives on compensation for work-related injuries and pensions.
He is from Quebec and has four children before marriage.
There was little mention of Sarah Mason in court, except that she also drank on Valentine\'s Day.
\"It\'s really an alcohol.
Gagne\'s lawyer told the judge: \"This is a related incident.
\"I also ask you to understand that this is not a battle . . . . . . It\'s just a blow.
This is unfortunate for Sir
The explosion killed the victim, but that\'s what happened.
Gagne was sentenced to five years\' imprisonment, half of which was eligible for parole.
The hearing lasted about 30 minutes.
\"We have never really been told the reason why Gagne did this,\" said Sarah\'s son, Thomas Mason . \".
\"The day we heard this, I was really angry.
I don\'t agree.
I don\'t think it\'s fair to my mom.
Police files reveal some details from Thomas.
Waiting for what happened to his mother.
\"One Blow\" is 10-inch Skyline-
The brand knife stabbed her heart with enough strength.
Although the court heard that there was no fight, the officer who approached Gagne heard something else.
The police officer asked Gagne twice: \"What\'s the matter?
Gagne finally said, \"she wants to play with me.
I protect myself.
The officer reached out to get the wooden handle of the knife, pulled the blade from the sofa, and, with the help of his partner, arrested Gagne.
They took him to Balmoral Street. police station.
Neighbor Jacques Mishaw told the police that he was making dinner when he heard Gagne go home, and the TV volume next door was getting louder and louder.
I don\'t know if Mason told Gagne that she was leaving.
When the police found her
Face down, surrounded by blood and vomit, it feels cold --
Mason in a pink T-shirt
She has three gold rings on her left hand and a \"good Watch \".
She was 42 years old. Taken to St.
Joseph\'s Hospital announced his death at 7: 33. m.
Mason\'s body was transferred to the morgue. 1.
Star research shows that Mason was one of the 16 Aboriginal women killed in Canada the year she died.
\"I want to write a story with this number,\" said Thomas Mason . \".
\"I\'m not trying to honor her life.
I\'m not trying to put her on the desk.
But I don\'t want my mom to be remembered. as)
Did you know that another Aboriginal lady of worthless drunkard?
Because my mother is worth a lot of money.
\"She is alone. We’re people.
We are people like everyone else.
We should also be respected.
\"There are also details in the police file: as was the case with her sister Edith in 1978, the official cause of Sarah\'s death was a stab in her right heart.
Sarah lies in an open coffin, not far from her sisters Edith and Catherine being buried in the city of Manitoba Rapids Reserve.
Taking the cross off the coffin was a bit of a fuss.
Sarah\'s mother, Anne McKinney, raised her child in accordance with Ojibwa\'s tradition.
She wants to get rid of the cross.
The staff of the funeral home groped to meet her requirements.
The ceremony began.
Hank stayed in his seat. So did Thomas.
McGinnis, 75, approached sadly and said, \"Sarah, wake up.
\"It\'s time to get up,\" Thomas recalls . \".
Anne McKinney, born in 1917, First Nation, Ontario.
On 1998, she buried three daughters before her funeral, and her obituary in The Fort Francis Times listed her death time in chronological order of violent deaths.
After Edith, before Catherine and Sarah, there was a fourth sister.
70-year-old Mary natarwin lives in Lei Wan, only a few bus stops from the house on Manitoba Street.
\"It\'s still standing.
\"I don\'t like going there,\" she said . \".
Mary felt lonely at times, but she found that her sister\'s spirit gave her strength.
She recently sewed a blanket.
It shows three bears. Three sisters.
Three Protectors.
Star1, Toronto, 200.
It is almost unintelligible to have no names and faces or some way to record the numbers of pain and loss.
There are some lists online.
Hundreds of names and photos.
But the information is short-lived, scroll to the view and disappear.
The next name, then the next one.
There are calls for investigation, labeling, political slogans, but there is still nothing that can be truly understood and approached.
The Toronto Star has established its own database of indigenous women murdered and missing in an attempt to attach as many details as possible to 1,200 cases.
This allows us to draw points on the map, a bird\'s-
Views on destruction, but few other than that.
A family in Ontario offers a hug to welcome the stars into their home and also to welcome them not to be able to pass.
The three sisters are talking about a family torn apart by violence and then gathered together by looking for answers.
When the star first approached, the surviving children and relatives of the sisters did not know how Catherine McKinney died or where she was.
The reason Sarah Mason was stabbed
Or if the murderer who killed Edith Kouton was caught and punished.
The star wanted to find the answer and it was time for the family to give it a try.
\"She was taken away,\" said Janice Henderson, a daughter of Edith quagong and head of the first nation of mitangjiami.
\"I don\'t want her to be forgotten.
\"Under the monotonous charge of 1,200 people, the three sisters are just one of the stories hidden in police and court files and the memories left behind.
Edith quagong: \"Hard Life\" November.
1978, close to midnight, the police opened the hatch and pointed the flashlight to the basement stairs.
At the bottom, rotten bodies are wearing blue jackets and black shoes. The half-
The Naked Woman lies face down on an old mattress surrounded by broken glass, abandoned stove, bloodstained kitchen countertop and smoky --
A pair of brown glasses.
The man in the forensic office turned the woman over and found two stab wounds, half of each. inch wide.
Her death certificate says Edith Lucille quagong, 43, is from the Manitoba city Reserve, Ontario.
It was then called the city of Manitoba rapids, and it was Quagon-
Listed as a \"pagan\" in her Indian birth record\"
Her sister Catherine and Sarah were raised by fur catcher.
For the children of the sisters and other surviving relatives, perhaps the passage of time has blurred the memory.
Or their forced adoption breaks the chain of family relationships and reliable information.
They had only a few photos of their sisters, including pictures of Edith at a boarding school, wearing bulky glasses and grinning.
And a copy of her baptism and marriage certificate.
At the age of 21, she insisted on recording, catcher Alan Henderson. “I miss my mom.
I have been there for a long time, \"said James Henderson, Edith\'s son, who is the drum keeper of his reserve team, the first nation of mitaankagaminen, which
\"She worked in the logging camp and lived a hard life.
Like one of the men, she undressed outside
Cut, throw pulp wood around.
She was outspoken.
Nothing was taken from anyone and she supported what she said.
I was worried about her because of this.
In January 1978, then Peterborough student Janice Henderson was nervous but excited about the upcoming trip to Minneapolis.
She hopes to reunite with her mother Edith.
Henderson hasn\'t seen her for years, though her childhood memories are short.
\"I remember her singing and humming before.
I remember in her arms she would comb my hair.
I remember it was really comforting.
\"In the exclusive news of 1960s, an 8-year-
Old Henderson was taken away by the child service and forced into foster care.
Sister James and Donna Mary were also taken away.
\"My mother said that things are hard for her, but she can at least find kindness in people.
James said, \"after drinking a few years of wine and getting angry with his mother\'s death, he decided to honor her life by working as an addiction counselor to heal others.