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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA - APRIL 23: The location on highway 16 where the body of Aielah Saric was discovered in 2006, photographed on April 23, 2016 in British Columbia, Canada. Aielah was only 14 when she was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in 2006. For years Aielah's mother, Audrey Auger, organized annual marches to bring more attention to her daughterâs death, but she herself was killed in a car accident in 2013, and no one was ever charged with the crime. Canadaâs Route 16, which connects Prince George with Prince Rupert and runs for 450 miles through the province of British Columbia, has been given the nickname of the Highway of Tears. Along this east to west road, it is estimated that as many as forty First Nations women and girls have been murdered or disappeared. Across Canada, it is estimated that between 1980 and 2014, as many as 1,200 native women and girls were murdered or vanished. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)