Charity and Cameron West have already been to the east coast
But this stretch along Hwy 16 from Prince Rupert to Prince George carries extra meaning because Charity and Cameron West have each lost relatives and friends along what is commonly called the Highway of Tears.“It’s not just women and girls. It’s adults, men and children,” said Cameron West, speaking on a blustery and cold late October morning before resuming their journey from the Walmart parking lot in Terrace.
The couple, who now live in Prince George, began walking eastward May 4 from the Siksika Nation territory east of Calgary. “I woke up one morning and said let’s go for a walk to Charity. She said where to and I said Halifax,” West recounted.West said they picked a start date of Oct. 21 from Prince Rupert, completely unaware it was also the date of a pole raising at the turnoff to Port Edward in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and residential school survivors.
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