The Feb 14 Women’s Memorial March was held in Vancouver, Canada, to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The demonstrators targeted the stature of John Deighton (Nov 1830 – May 23, 1875), better known as ”Gassy Jack”, who is shown as a symbol of discrimination against indigenous people. Demonstrators toppled the statue, and painted it in red. The police investigation into the incident continues.

More than 23,000 signatures have collected for the removal of the statue do date. Gassy Jack, a symbol of oppression against natives, was 40 years old when he married a 12-year-old girl from the Squamish First Nation Indians.