Protest march proceeds along First Avenue on Saturday.

Prince George, B.C. – A lack of substantive action to deal with the hundred of murdered and missing aboriginal women and children across Canada sparked a Women’s Memorial March in Prince George on Saturday.

Following a welcome to the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh, introductory comments by organizers and Chief Terry Tegee of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, drummers singing the Women’s Warrior song led of the march through downtown Prince George.

Outraged by the decrease in funding to the RCMP E-PANA investigation and the lack of meaningful action over women who have been murdered or have vanished along Highway 16, between Prince George and Prince Rupert, and nationally, demonstrators carried placards calling for a Public Inquiry and immediate action to implement the recommendations of the 2006 Highway of Tears Symposium held in Prince George.

Some residents and visitors in town for the Canada Winter Games honked and waved in support. In front of the RCMP headquarters, demonstrators stopped to leave red and yellow roses in the snow – red roses remembering murdered women and yellow roses remembering those who remain missing.