This story was originally published on Nov. 24, 2001:The father is Ernest Albert Crey, 57, a former hard-rock miner and hard-drinking logger. He gave up booze to build a better life for his family and moved them, here, to a new home in Hope.
In the end, some of them will survive, grow to be native leaders and healers. Others will spiral into despair and drugs and, eventually, death.She will drift into drugs and prostitution, endure having acid thrown in her face and, finally, in late 2000, at age 43, she will join the ranks of 45 women missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.Article content
Dawn’s first foster home was on a farm near Chilliwack, where she was sent to live with her older sister Faith. Their strict foster parents provided them a stable, if regimented, life. But later they would tell their brothers and sisters horror stories of their time there.“Basically, they were used as child labour and horribly abused, so much so that our eldest sister, Faith, never stopped talking about how cruel those foster parents were on that farm,” Dawn’s sister Lorraine says.
“My life in poverty has been a long road,” she said. “In my own family, before I went into the foster homes, there was lots of love and caring that I needed, but not all the material things. The meeting was brief. But when Lorraine came to know Dawn as a teenager, she could always see traces of that energetic child’s bright expression.
Years later when they were teenagers, Rose saw Dawn in a Chilliwack field as they were picking raspberries with their foster mothers. “She didn’t try to push herself on me. She was considerate and understood that I was uncomfortable because I didn’t know any of our family.”Article content Marie Wiebe recalls the social workers being terribly blunt when telling Dawn that she would now be living with this new family. She and 14-year-old Faith, who would be separated from her and sent to live in Hope, would never return to their former home.Dawn’s meagre belongings were brought to her, and Wiebe took her a few times to visit her former foster parents.
However, Wiebe soon learned Dawn’s actions were going beyond those of a restless teenager when she got up in the middle of the night and discovered her foster daughter was missing.
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