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Telkwa, BC (No. 2)

Telkwa lies in the beautiful Bulkley River Valley, surrounded by snow capped mountains. To the west of the Village, are the Telkwa and Bulkley Ranges of the Hazelton Mountains and to the east, is the Babine Range of the Skeena Mountains. With its magnificent towering ranges and extensive offering of year-round outdoor activities, Telkwa is an endearing place to visit and play.

The pristine rivers in Telkwa attract water sport adventures and are excellent for fishing, canoeing, kayaking tubing or rafting. Bordering the Village of Telkwa is the Tyhee Provincial Park, which conveniently offers a campground, swimming, hiking, walking, bird viewing, a boat launch, paddle board rentals and a picnic site during the summer. 

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Looking for a particular photo this morning, ended up in the old Canada trip file. Dying because I'm not there and instead stuck inside editing 😊 Top 5 Places To Let Your Dog Shit In Cumbria 😊

Bonus bike time:

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Telkwa range B.C [oc] 2620 x 1965

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To Smithers

Day 4 -

Today we drove north on Hwy 97 to Prince George and turned on to Hwy 16 westbound.

The area between Fort Fraser and Burns Lake is known as the Lakes District, as there are several large and many small lakes in this central part of BC.

The landscape changes little between the Cariboo (dry and high desert) and the Lake District (wetter and swampy),  they are both very different in the rolling hills

I cooked up a nice pasta brunch at a rest area and after lunch and a nap we drove on to Smithers, where we stayed at the Riverside Municipal campground. Nice facility on the Telkwa river.

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#hungryhill #bc #drivebc #drive #telkwa https://www.instagram.com/p/B8DSyQ_BrHj/?igshid=1meei8rhju31j

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This indigenous woman is unidentified. She has been nameless and ageless in news articles.

On November 11th 2011, she was found badly hurt on a residential road in Telkwa BC, a small town off of the "Highway of Tears." She died the morning she was found. Another woman was also murdered that same day in Smithers, the town where Jessica (covered in a previous post) was found.

A man was present at the scene when police found our unidentified woman. This man knew her and was not charged. No autopsy has been disclosed, but the police have decided to treat the case as a possible criminal offense.

And that's it. I couldn't find anything else about this woman online. No answers to who she is and who hurt her. But we care! We want to know who she is. She is a human being and deserves that much.

Want to Learn More About MMIWG?

Our page is just a drop in the bucket of information out there on this topic! Here are some great sources that we have come across:

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada) https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA https://mmiwusa.org/

CBC’s database on MMIWG (Canada) https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

Justice for Native Women (USA and Canada) http://www.justicefornativewomen.com/

The REDress Project (Canada) http://www.redressproject.org/?page_id=43

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Telkwa River Rd, Telkwa, BC V0J 2X3, Canada

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Telkwa Community Trails

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Delphine Nikal #MMIW

Today I say the name of Delphine Nikal (age 19), left her home in Telkwa to visit friends 16 km away in Smithers (BC) when she disappeared on 13 June 1990. She is one of 18 confirmed Highway of Tears cases. Delphine Nikal #MMIW

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#telkwabc #telkwa #frozen #congelado #rio #río (at Telkwa B.C)

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Telkwa, BC (No. 1)

Telkwa is a village located along British Columbia Highway 16, nearly 15 kilometres (9 mi) southeast of the town of Smithers and 350 kilometres (220 mi) west of the city of Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, Canada.

Settlement in the area began around 1904 in a townsite known as Aldermere on the hill above Telkwa. Around 1907, people began to move down the hill to be closer to water supplies and the anticipated route of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The name Telkwa is possibly an Indigenous term for "meeting of the waters" which appropriately describes the confluence of the Bulkley and Telkwa Rivers in town.

Source: Wikipedia

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Emergency ice cream stop. Also i probably wont share any good photos until we are back cause i have nothing to upload to except my phone (at Telkwa) https://www.instagram.com/black.shuck/p/BxOhy8xHqdA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xmrjp5u3cctr

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Highway of Tears: Full and Detailed List. 27 cases, 22 unsolved.

In Canada, dozens of women have been murdered or disappeared along Highway 16 in British Columbia. Most are still unsolved. Many of the women are of aboriginal descent. Aboriginal women in Canada are four times as likely to be murdered than non-native Canadian women. Aboriginal groups have long claimed that police do not properly investigate these cases because of racial prejudice, however, it should be noted that the solution rate for homicides of aboriginal women is nearly identical for the solution rate for homicides involving non-native women. The Highway of Tears has a particularly high murder and disappearance rate because of poverty and a lack of public transportation in the area, which lead to increased hitchhiking, where many women have met their death.

Below is a detailed list of Highway of Tears victims and the circumstances of their disappearance/death. Police launched Project E-PANA in 2005 to investigate the unsolved murders and disappearances. The victim criteria for the project is: female; engaged in a “high-risk activity” (ie. hitchhiking or the sex trade); disappeared from or found within a mile of highways 16 (most common), 97 or 5.

To combat the issue, the government is subsidizing new bus routes in hopes that this will decrease hitchhiking and provide safe, reliable and affordable transit.

Author’s note: several of the women featured in this list are known to have engaged in sex work (ie. prostitution). This does not lessen their value as a human being. They are someone’s mother, sister and daughter. Please be respectful when reading and/or commenting.

Women whose cases are being investigated as part of Project E-PANA:

Gloria Moody (aged 26) was last seen on October 25, 1969. She was seen leaving a bar in Williams Lake. Her nude body was found 10km away. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and left to die. In 1998 a police officer told family members that the three main suspects in the case were now all dead.

Micheline Pare (aged 18) was last seen on Highway 29 in July 1970. She came from Quebec and was hitchhiking through the area. Two women picked her up and dropped her off near Tompkins Ranch. Her body was found in August 1970. She had been sexually assaulted and beaten to death with a blunt weapon.

Gale Weys (aged 19) was last seen while hitchhiking from Clearwater, where she worked, to Kamloops, where she lived, in October 1973. A year later her body was found in a water-filler ditch just south of Clearwater. Serial killer Bobby Jack Fowler is the prime suspect in the case.

Pamela Darlington (aged 19) was last seen while hitchhiking from Kamloops to a local bar in November 1973. Her partly clothed, badly beaten body was found the next day in a river in Kamloops. Serial killer Bobby Jack Fowler is the prime suspect in the case.

Monica Ignas (aged 14) was last seen walking by herself along Highway 16 on Dec. 13, 1974. She was walking from Thornhill towards her home in Terrace. Her body was found four months later in a heavily wooded area east of Terrace. Her cause of death was strangulation.

Colleen MacMillen (aged 16) was last seen August 1974 leaving her home in Lac La Hache to hitchhike to a nearby friend’s house. Her body was found dead 46 kilometres south of where she was last seen. Serial killer Bobby Jack Fowler is the prime suspect in her murder. In 2012, DNA from Colleen’s body was matched to Fowler.

Monica Jack (aged 12) was last seen riding her bike in May 1978. Her mother saw Monica riding her bike home from shopping and offered to drive her the rest of the way but Monica wanted to finish her ride home one her own. Her bike was later found but it took almost 20 years for the family to learn what happened to Monica. In 1995, forestry workers found Monica’s remains in a ravine off a logging road about 20 km from where Monica’s bike was found. In 2014, Garry Taylor Handlen was charged with the murder of Monica Jack and one other young girl. Currently (2017), he is in jail awaiting a trial.

Maureen Mosie (aged 33), was last seen on May 8, 1981. It is believed she was hitchhiking from Salmon Arm to Kamloops. Her severely beaten body was found the next day, a few kilometres east of Kamloops. Witnesses saw her getting into a vehicle with a man of this description: “late 20s or early 30s with black or brown hair and a beard.”

Shelly-Ann Bascu (age 16) was last seen walking along Highway 16 in the direction of her home in Hinton in 1983. Her body has never been found but several days after her disappearance school books and clothing of Shelly-Ann’s were found near the Athabasca River.

Alberta Williams (aged 24) was last seen in Prince Rupert in August 1989. She got into a truck with a non-native man and her uncle Jack. Her body was found three weeks later 37 km east of Prince Rupert. Alberta had been strangled and sexually assaulted.

Delphine Nikal (aged 16) went missing in June 13, 1990. Delphine was hitchhiking east to her home in Telkwa from the town of Smithers where she was visiting friends. She has been missing ever since.

Ramona Wilson (aged 16) was last seen hitchhiking from Smithers towards Hazelton on the evening of June 11, 1994. Ramona’s remains were found nearly a year later in a wooded area west of the Smithers airport. The family was not given the official cause of death, although they were told by a sympathetic insider that strangulation and a “sexual motivation” were possible.

Roxanne Thiara (aged 15) was last seen in Prince George in July 1994. She had turned to sex work to survive and told a friend she was meeting a client on the night of her disappearance. Her body was found weeks later in the bush along Highway 16.

Alishia ‘Leah’ Germaine (aged 15) was last seen at a Christmas dinner at the Native Friendship Centre in Prince George. She was found murdered on December 9, 1994, behind a school off Highway 16 on the outskirts of Prince George. She had been stabbed to death. She was known to be engaged in sex work and was friends with Roxanne Thiara.

Lana Derrick (aged 19) was visiting her mom in Terrace, B.C. in October 1995 and was last seen at a service station on Highway 16 just outside of Thornhill. It is believed she had been hitchhiking. Lana’s family dispute this sighting and state that Lana was last seen at her friend’s house in Terrace. She has been missing ever since.

Nicole Hoar (aged 24)  went missing on June 21, 2002. Nicole was hitchhiking from Prince George to Smithers to surprise her sister with a birthday visit. She was last seen at a gas station on Highway 16 west of Prince George. She approached a vehicle; the driver was of the following description: “Caucasian man, between 20 and 35 years old wearing a short-sleeved white T-shirt.” She has been missing ever since.

Tamara Chipman (aged 22) was seen on 21 September 2005 in Prince Rupert hitchhiking east towards Terrace on Highway 16. She was known to be engaged in sex work and warrants were out for her arrest for failure to appear on assault charges. She was mother to one young boy. Tamara was not immediately reported missing as family thought she may have been avoiding the law; police believe Tamara was the victim of foul play. She has been missing ever since.

Aielah Saric Auger (aged 14) was last seen near a downtown bar in Prince George on February 2, 2006. Her body was shortly after in a ditch on Highway 16, 20 kilometres east of Prince George.

Additional cases identified on http://www.highwayoftears.ca/ :

Destiny Rae Tom (aged 21) was found dead On March 23, 2013 outside a home on the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation in northern B.C. She had been severely beaten. Destiny left behind one daughter. In February 2015, Destiny’s husband Garrett Steven George was charged with second-degree murder in the case. George had a criminal record that includes convictions for assault, assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm.

Natasha Montgomery (aged 23) was last seen in Prince George in September 2010. She was known to be engaged in sex work. Serial killer Cody Legebokoff was convicted of her murder, though Natasha’s body has never been found. Natasha’s DNA was discovered on Legebokoff’s shorts, hoodie, throughout his apartment, and on his axe.

Jill Stuchenko (aged 35) was last seen in Prince George. Her body was found in October 2009 in a gravel pit on the outskirts of Prince George. She had died from multiple blows to the head. She was known to be engaged in sex work. She left behind five children. Serial killer Cody Legebokoff was convicted of her murder.

Cynthia Maas (aged 35) was last seen in September 2010 in Prince George. Cynthia’s body was found in a park a month later. She had died from from blunt force trauma and penetrating wounds to the chest. She had defence wounds and her pants were rolled down to her ankles. She was known to be engaged in sex work. Serial killer Cody Legebokoff was convicted of her murder.

Bonnie Joseph (aged 32) disappeared from Vanderhooft on September 8th, 2007. She was reported missing in December 2007. Police say she led a high-risk lifestyle and was known to hitchhike alone between Fort St. James, Vanderhoof and Prince George, B.C. Her family considers her disappearance to be out of character.

Immaculate “Mackie” Basil (aged 26) was last seen on June 14, 2013, around the Kuzche Reserve near Fort St. James, British Columbia. An extensive search did not locate her. She has been missing ever since.

Unofficial Additions to the list:

Loren Donn Leslie (aged 15) was an acquaintance of serial killer Cody Legebokoff, whom she met online. Her body was foundin November 2010 on a remote logging road just off Highway 27 near Vanderhoof. Serial killer Cody Legebokoff was convicted of her murder. Legebokoff was pulled over by police on November 27, 2010 and was in possession on Loren’s belongings. Police followed his tire tracks back to Loren’s body and he was arrested. After this arrest, Legebokoff’s DNA was linked to the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas, and Natasha Lynn Montgomery.

Madison Scott (aged 20) vanished on May 28th, 2011 after attending a party at Hogsback Lake, a campsite about 25 kilometres south of Vanderhoof.  Police found her tent and truck, but Madison has been missing ever since. Foul play is suspected.

Cicilia/Cecilia Anne Nikal (aged 15) disappeared in October 1989, a year before her cousin Delphine Nikal (on the Project E-PANA list). She was last seen Smithers, B.C. near Highway 16, however, RCMP maintain she was reported missing in Vancouver. Another family member reported Cecilia moved to Vancouver Island, but that was never confirmed.

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EGG BOX THAT PROTECTS YOUR EGGS LIKE A SAFE IN A BANK

What is the biggest fear we've got whilst buying groceries? The guy bagging them will inevitably location some thing on pinnacle of the eggs and the remainder of your stuff will be covered in egg slime. Surely, I can’t be the handiest person who has skilled that, so whilst I noticed the Egg box and Guardian case I got great eggcited – get it? Now, this is a conceptual design made for a research undertaking approximately sustainable food packaging however I recognize we all want this to return to life ASAP because it's miles just ‘eggcellent’! The Egg Guardian changed into aimed at lowering packaging waste and shielding the eggs from horrific grocery packing strategies. It is designed to be made from aluminum due to the material’s recyclable qualities, durability, and simplicity of cleaning. It will also be created to fold right into a flat sheet when not in use so that it may be carried round or saved with out trouble. I adore it whilst a layout is simple and but has eggstraordinary (I can pass on and on) effect on packaging and food waste management. Before its invention, eggs had been carried in egg baskets. In 1906, Thomas Peter Bethell of Liverpool invented a predecessor to the modern-day egg field and marketed it because the Raylite Egg Box. He created frames of interlocking strips of cardboard, and packed these frames in cardboard or timber boxes for delivery by avenue or rail. In 1911, newspaper editor Joseph Coyle of Smithers, British Columbia invented the egg carton, to resolve a dispute between a neighborhood farmer and hotel proprietor in Aldermere, close to present-day Telkwa, in British Columbia, over the farmer's eggs' often being delivered broken. for moving dimensions wooden egg box plastic paper egg box price carton box crafts egg box xbox Read the full article

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Tops lake, telkwa British Columbia

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This is 16 year old Delphine Anne Camelia Nikal, an indigenous woman who went missing from Smithers, BC.

On June 13th, 1990, Delphine spent the day and evening with her friends. Around 10pm she called her uncle to let him know she would be heading home to Telkwa shortly. Some witnesses say they saw her trying to hitchhike back, a common means of transportation in the area. She never made it home, and as of 2019 she is considered missing.

The year before Delphine disappeared, her cousin Cecelia also disappeared from the same stretch of road. At this time, no arrests have been made and there are no known suspects.

There was an American serial killer, Bobby Jack Fowler, who terrorized the area in the 1980s and 1990s and has been linked to the disappearance of other indigenous women along the Highway of Tears, but no link has been made between him and Delphine.

I am incredibly frustrated at how little information there is available about the case online.

Want to Learn More About MMIWG?

Our page is just a drop in the bucket of information out there on this topic! Here are some great sources that we have come across:

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada) https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA https://mmiwusa.org/

CBC’s database on MMIWG (Canada) https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

Justice for Native Women (USA and Canada) http://www.justicefornativewomen.com/

The REDress Project (Canada) http://www.redressproject.org/?page_id=43