Taking action on violence against women – Golden Star

The Golden Women’s Resource Centre set up a memoial at the fountain on Wednesday, December 6.

Dec. 13, 2017

On the afternoon of Wednesday, December 6, a small group gathered at the fountain in downtown Golden to honour the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada.

The day was established by Parliament in 1991 to mark the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal who were killed specifically because they were women.

Surrounding the fountain were 14 pairs of shoes, each with a red rose laid across and a candle beside them to represent the 14 women killed in the 1989 Montreal massacre. Each pair represented the different walks of life and symbolize the women no longer there.

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