This year in order to keep our community safe, the Women's Memorial March will be a story board walk in the Nature Reserve Park along the Coalbanks Trail for three weeks starting February 14, 2021 until March 7, 2021. Park at Helen Schuler Nature Centre parking lot.

At noon on February 14, we will broadcast through social media the opening for the Women's Memorial March.

We encourage everyone to visit the park and honour Missing and Murdered Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and LGBTQQIA people through an independent memorial walk at your leisure throughout the week. Please stay safe, wear face masks, and engage in physical distancing.

We encourage the public to participate virtually and take part of the story board walk during the week.

"The first Women’s Memorial March was held in 1992 in response to the Murder of a woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories."

"At present day, Indigenous women disproportionately continue to go missing or be murdered with minimal to no action to address these tragedies or the systemic nature of gendered violence, poverty, racism, or colonialism."

"This event is organized and led by women because women – especially Indigenous women – face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence on a daily basis. The February 14th Women’s Memorial March is an opportunity to come together to grieve the loss of our beloved sisters, remember the women who are still missing, and to dedicate ourselves to justice."

For more information:

• Women’s Memorial March

• Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

• Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls