Three Ojibwa sisters from the same reserve each met a violent end – Toronto Star
Until recently, the families of Edith Quagon, Kathleen McGinnis and Sarah Mason — three sisters from Manitou Rapids, Ont. — knew little about the women’s brutal deaths. The Star helped uncover their stories.
A number almost incomprehensible without names and faces or some way to register the suffering and loss.
There are partial lists online. Hundreds of names and some photos. But the information is ephemeral, scrolling into view and then gone. The next name and then the next.
There have been calls for an inquiry, hashtags, political slogans, but still nothing to really grasp and pull close.
The Star built its own database of murdered and missing aboriginal women in an attempt to attach as many details to the 1,200 cases as possible. This allowed us to plot points on a map, a bird’s-eye view of the destruction, but little else.
