REDress project honours missing and murdered girls and women

Red dresses line Aylmer’s Principale Street and Memorial Park until October 4, when the dresses will be moved to Parliament Hill. The REDress campaign is spearheaded by Aylmer’s Circle of Friends. Circle founder, Lillian Beaudoin, explained that “red dresses symbolize murdered and missing Indigenous women and children. Over 1,200 mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties and grandmothers are gone because of violence, because of hate and because no one really cared!” She went on to say that anyone is welcome to help on the morning of October 4 when the dresses will be taken down in Aylmer and taken to the capital. Beaudoin concluded with, “Help us stop the violence! Help us raise our boys to be kind, respectful, compassionate men.”