Finding Dawn

Finding Dawn is a 2006 documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh looking into the fate of an estimated 500 Canadian Aboriginal women who have been murdered or have gone missing over the past 30 years.

[1] The film begins with the story of Dawn Crey: one of 60 women, a third of them Aboriginal, who have disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside over a 20-year period.

Crey's remains were among those found on the property of British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton.

The film introduces viewers to Dawn's sister and brother, and their involvement in the annual Women's Memorial March in Vancouver.

[1] Finding Dawn is referenced in the later 2015 documentary Highway of Tears, which notes its impact on native viewers.