‘We stand in solidarity’: Métis society on 15th anniversary of local woman’s disappearance

By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — It has been 15 years since the disappearance of a local Indigenous woman – but still no answers as to how and why she vanished. Métis woman Abigail Andrews was last seen on April 7th, 2010. The then 28-year-old was pregnant with her first child, had talked to her mother around 7 p.m. that April evening and informed neighbours she was going to visit a male friend, according to a neighbour’s account. Then she disappeared without a trace. In a statement recently issued to Energeticcity.ca, the Fort St. John Métis Society described the Andrews story as a “deeply sensitive situation.” “The fact that a local Indigenous woman went missing is deeply troubling to us,” wrote the society…

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