CANADA Canada - Elizabeth Mae Dorion, 44, Pukatawagan, MB, 20 Sept. 1999

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Elizabeth Mae Dorion



Elizabeth was 44 years old when she disappeared from a commercial fishing camp called Mile 94 in Pukatawagan, Manitoba on September 20th, 1999. She was reported missing by her niece on November 13th, 1999. The niece claimed she had tried to report her aunt as missing earlier but that police did not take her concerns seriously. Elizabeth was last heard from walking from Pukatawagan en route to The Pas but never made it to her destination. According to family Elizabeth had plans for the following weekend and would not have vanished on her own. She was struggling with alcoholism at the time as she used alcohol to cope with the loss of her common-law husband who had recently passed away. A traditional healer has told the family they believe Elizabeth's remains will be found in a river or lake. Her family believes she is deceased.

Elizabeth was known as a talented beadworker and cook. She is a mother of three and she remains missing.

DOB: Unavailable. Circa 1955.
Description: Elizabeth was 5'4 and 150 pounds at the time of her disappearance. She has black hair and brown eyes. She has scars on her left cheek, forearm, and wrists. Some sources spell her last name "Dorian."

Tribal Information: Elizabeth is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.

If you have any information about the disappearance or whereabouts of Elizabeth Dorion, you are encouraged to contact the Winnipeg RCMP at 204-983-5461.

Justice for Native People: Elizabeth Dorion, Missing from Manitoba since 1999.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Elizabeth Dorion, 44, was mother to three children when she disappeared from a Manitoba fish camp on Sept. 20, 1999. Pukatawagan RCMP are investigating, but Elizabeth’s family no longer have contact with investigators, and are not sure if the case is open or closed.

Patricia Turner always knew her aunt, Elizabeth Dorion, was talented when it came to beadwork.

“She would make about 20 lighter cases and sell them fast,” Turner said.

Dorion, who was born and raised on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba, made the crafts in one week, something Turner hasn’t seen anyone else do in such a short amount of time.

“She did a lot of beadwork and she would sell it to people to take care of herself.”

Besides her beadwork, Turner misses having Dorion around.

“She really liked joking around,” she said while laughing herself.

Turner says Dorion was really good with her kids and spent a lot of time with them.

“When she wanted to stay sober she would stay home with the kids and she would cook for them really good meals.”

According to the Pukatawagan RCMP, Dorion was reported missing on Nov. 13, 1999.

She was last seen on Sept. 20, 1999 at a local fish camp called Mile 94, between Manitoba’s The Pas and Pukatawagan. In her younger years, she spent months on the trapline with her parents.

Turner was the one to report her aunt missing. At the time, Dorion was living with her on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.

She says she tried to report her missing earlier but the RCMP detachments in The Pas and Pukatawagan would not take her concerns seriously.

Turner last saw Dorion on Sept. 15, 1999.

Dorion said she had plans to come back before Sept. 19, 1999 as it was election day on the reserve.

“She said, ‘I will be back next week. I am going to come and vote.’ I said, ‘where are you going?’ And then she said, ‘I am going to go visit with my friend.’”

A release issued by the Manitoba Association of Chiefs of Police says two ground searches of the area were done, both with no results.

But Turner says those searches were not thorough.

“It is the worst because they didn’t even try help us,” she said.

She says her aunt was written off by police and society.

“Maybe like she was just another “drunken Native,”” she said.

Turner says her aunt became an alcoholic after her common law husband, Paul Bignell, died.

“Not long after that she got the kids taken away,” she said about the two children Dorion and Bignell had together.

“When she lost her partner, she totally lost it. She didn’t know how to handle... She didn’t want to do anything after that.”

Dorion had a daughter from a previous relationship.

Because she had her at a young age, that daughter was adopted by another family in the community.

Turner says Dorion felt bad about not raising her children, and remembers she would spend a lot of time talking about them.

She would like to see a federal inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous people, including men.

She says one will bring forward systemic problems, including how the child welfare system has taken too many children away from their homes.

Turner no longer has contact with investigators.

“I don’t know if it’s open or not but she’s still missing,” she said about the case.

Nearly two years after Dorion went missing, Turner dreamed of her.

That’s when she went to Mile 94 to offer prayers for her aunt. She even sought help from a Cree elder.

“A traditional healer told us that she’s inside a stream or a river or a lake,” Turner said.

She and many others in the family believe Dorion died suspiciously and her body is in the water up north.

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/elizabeth-mae-dorion

 

[Pennysmom1]

Canada's Missing | Case details

www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca

Elizabeth Dorion was last seen by a friend at a local fishing camp on September 21, 1999. She arrived at the fishing camp on September 17th with her friends and stayed there approximately 4 days. She was never seen again. Two separate ground searches were carried out. Several steep embankments as well as the area surrounding the camp were searched with negative results. Elizabeth's whereabouts remain unknown.

Missing from Mile 94 near Pukatawagan, Manitoba

Aliases LIZARD
DORION, Liz

Missing since September 21, 1999
Year of birth 1954
Age at disappearance 44
Gender Female
Bio group Indigenous
Eye colour Brown
Hair Black, Shoulder
Height 163cm / 5ft 4in
Weight 68kg / 150lb
Build Medium

Pants Jogging pants
Sweater With buttons
Scar Cheek, Left side

Please Help Locate Elizabeth Mae Dorion

Elizabeth has not been seen since September 20, 1999.

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Notable: Elizabeth has scars on her left cheek, forearms & wrists.

Details about Elizabeth’s Case: Elizabeth was last seen on September 20, 1999 at a local fish camp called Mile 94, between Manitoba’s The Pas and Pukatawagan. Elizabeth was reported missing by her neice, Patricia Turner on November 13, 1999. Elizabeth told her neice she was going to visit a friend and would be back on September 19, 1999 which was election day on the reserve.

A woman, who fears for her safety if her name is disclosed, told the CBC in 2015 that Elizabeth Dorion was beaten, bound with rocks at her feet and then pushed into the nearby rapids.

On the day she went missing, Elizabeth spent the morning with her friend and two others. After that, her friend went home alone. Hours later, the unnamed woman heard the other friends talking about Elizabeth, more specifically, how one of them killed her. Once they knew she’d heard them, she said she was warned not to tell anyone. What followed were years of threats, and years of violence.

 

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3468DFMB - Elizabeth Dorion

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Elizabeth was a widowed mother of three children.