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SUMMARY:Book Launch -Where is Lisa Marie Young?
DESCRIPTION:A powerful exploration of one of Canada’s most famous cold cases\, Where is Lisa Marie Young? commemorates the life of a woman vanished\, calls for action for MMIWG2S\, and holds up the torch of hope to bring Lisa home.  Both authors Norah Caldwell and Carolann Bosma will be in attendance.  Books will be available for purchase.   \nOn June 30\, 2002\, Lisa Marie Young—vibrant with life\, full of plans for her promising future\, merely twenty-one years old—went missing from a birthday party in her hometown of Nanaimo\, British Columbia. She was last seen climbing into a red Jaguar with a virtual stranger\, headed into the city to get some food. \nNo trace of her has been found since. \nLisa’s family tried everything—they plastered the town with posters\, conducted major searches run by Lisa’s Indigenous Tla-o-qui-aht (Clayoquat) community\, pushed the slow-moving RCMP\, gave media interviews\, offered rewards\, and even did a Crime Stoppers reenactment and worked with psychics. Though the man with whom Lisa was last seen has been questioned by the police\, there are still no answers and no body twenty-five years later. \nDrawing on stories and reflections from Lisa’s closest family and friends\, testimony from other victims of the only person of interest in Lisa’s case\, and interviews with RCMP officers active on her case both then and now\, Where is Lisa Marie Young? is a deep dive into the night Lisa disappeared\, a testament to the decades-long effort by her community to find her\, and a beautiful lament for the full person Lisa was before the final twelve hours of her life. A grief song and a call to action\, Where is Lisa Marie Young? invites you to join the search and demand justice for Lisa. \n\nAbout the authors\nNorah Caldwell is the co-author of Where is Lisa Marie Young?. She was born in Sudbury\, Ontario and is a former educator\, whose career spanned thirty-one years and several places in Ontario and Alberta. Norah is a mother\, stepmother and grandmother of three little girls. She lives in PEI with her husband and their dog\, Poppy. \nCarolann Bosma is the foster sister to Lisa Marie Young\, an Indigenous woman who disappeared in the summer of 2002. She is a stay at home mom who spends most of her days home-schooling her twins and caring for her family. In her spare time\, she works behind the scenes trying to raise awareness about Lisa’s disappearance so that she is not forgotten. She lives in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island\, BC.
URL:https://virl.bc.ca/event/book-launch-where-is-lisa-marie-young/
LOCATION:Nanaimo North Large Meeting Room\, 6250 Hammond Bay Road\, Nanaimo\, British Columbia\, V9R 5N3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Adults
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