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NANAIMO The Ladysmith community, along with residents from across Vancouver Island, are coming together in support of the Lil Red Dress Project after two men were caught on camera taking several dresses down. Shawn Magnus of Sidney took the day off work and drove to Ladysmith on Friday morning to hang red dresses in the same location that the others were taken down. “It hit me like a ton of bricks,” says Magnus when he saw the video. “What they did was abhorrent and it is wrong and (this is) something that I could do to try and correct it.”
Posted: Apr 16, 2021 5:32 PM PT | Last Updated: April 17
Red dresses have become a powerful symbol to represent missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across the country. (CHEK News)
The Stz minus First Nation says it s working with the Town of Ladysmith to replace a number of red dresses that were torn down along the highway near Oyster Bay.
One hundred red dresses, meant to represent Canada s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, were hung along the highway from Victoria to Port Hardy in January.
Last weekend, two people were filmed tearing the dresses down near the Oyster Bay area. Video of the incident circulated on social media.