1998 HARDY, Ruby Anne-1998, Vancouver-37

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Ruby Anne Hardy
Born: March 23, 1965
Last Seen: 1998
Reported Missing: March 27, 2002
Status: Missing

Ruby Anne HARDY - Birthdate 1965-03-23

Ruby Anne HARDY, age 37, born on March 23, 1965. Ms. Hardy was last seen in 1998 and was reported missing to Vancouver police yesterday, March 27th, 2002. She is described as being 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighing 131 pounds, having brown hair and eyes and being Native Indian. She often uses the name 'Ruby GALLOWAY'.

http://www.missingpeople.net/ruby_anne_har...ar_28,_2002.htm

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A daughter remembers her mother


Crystal Hardy with her mother

When the news about these women started to surface, many people approached me to find out if my mother was one of the first 50. I didn't want to think about it at all. I didn't want to picture my mother being hurt in the ways described in the media. I felt sick to my stomach hearing about what the things that happened to those women.

Once the names were revealed, there was a slight sense of relief when I didn't find my mother's name. Don't get me wrong, I obviously felt for the women and their families, but that hope was back in my mind that my mother was still alive. Once the news of the additional five women being added to the list came out, I was told that my mother was on the list. My heart sank. My fears were realized.

Even though my mother has been out of my life for many years, a day doesn't go by that I don't think about her. I always hope that she is doing all right, despite her problems. I remember my mother as a strong woman that knew how to survive. Despite what people may think, my mother took great care of me and my sister and brother. She always made sure that we had food, shelter and clothing. She was a loving mother that would do anything for her children. She did the best she could with what she had to work with.

Despite her problems, I never questioned her love for us. I have come to realize that having an addiction is like having a disease. It takes a long time to get well again. I pray every night that my mother is safe and has started coping with her illness. I hope that having her name on the list will make her come forth and say that she is all right. However, if this doesn't occur, perhaps my family and I will have some sort of closure.

Crystal Hardy



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Mom remains optimistic that daughter still alive

By Jim Kelly - The Chronicle-Journal

May 27, 2005

The passing years haven’t dimmed a mother’s hope that her missing daughter will be found.

"There’s no evidence she’s one of the people (who were killed)," Thunder Bay’s Violet Garreau said of her daughter Ruby Anne Hardy, 37.


Ruby Anne Hardy with her daughter Crystal

In 2002, Hardy’s name was added to a list of prostitutes who went missing from Vancouver’s downtown Eastside over several years.

Hardy, who also used the name Ruby Galloway, was last seen in 1998 and was reported missing to Vancouver Police on March 27, 2002.

Garreau’s comments coincide with reports this week that pig farmer Robert Pickton now faces an additional 12 first-degree murder charges in addition to the 15 already laid in the deaths of the women.

"I won’t ever give up hope," Garreau said in an interview Thursday. "I’m going to hold up hope until it’s proven otherwise."

Garreau, who also has three sons, speculates Hardy may have become so addicted to drugs that she has simply given up, doesn’t care about anyone and hasn’t tried to reach her family.

Garreau pointed to the fact Hardy gave up both her daughters, Crystal, now 23 and Candice, now 18, who were raised by their grandparents. A third child, Troy, was put up for adoption in Vancouver.

Garreau said she’s puzzled why Vancouver Police didn’t contact her before the current charges against Pickton were laid.

"They usually phone to let you know there will be an announcement to lessen the impact," she said.

Garreau is the eternal optimist, her husband Jack is more realistic.

"In a way I did suspect something happened to her," he said of his step-daughter.

"She called regularly for five years and then the calls stopped. The rumour was there was bad stuff going on out there," he said.

"People disappeared off the face of the earth. I do hope she’s still alive but I do have my doubts."

Violet Garreau said an RCMP female officer and a female liaison with the Missing Women’s Joint Task Force visited Thunder Bay last summer to talk to Garreau and her husband.

The task force is comprised of RCMP and Vancouver Police.

It was one of a few visits to Thunder Bay by RCMP to take DNA samples from the family, keep them up to date on the latest developments in the case and to inquire how the family was coping.

"I guess that was their way of saying ‘we haven’t forgotten about you," Violet Garreau, who is on a waiting list for heart bypass surgery, said.

The Chronicle Journal
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/story.shtml?id=27347

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Contact Agency( name , phone #, fax #)
Missing Persons Squad Vancouver Police Dept
Phone: (604) 717-2530
Fax: (604) 606-2728
E-mail: vpd.missing@vpd.ca



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Name:
Ruby Anne Hardy

AKA:
'Ruby GALLOWAY'

Sex: female

Race: first nations

Age when missing: 37 YO

Date Missing: 1998

Birth Date: March 23, 1965

Hair Color: brown

Eye Color: brown

Height: 5'2"

Weight: 131 lbs

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Location last seen Vancouver BC

Circumstances: Ms. Hardy was last seen in 1998 and was reported missing to Vancouver police yesterday, March 27th, 2002

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Additional comments: Possible addicted to drugs

Source: http://www.missingpeople.net/ruby_anne_har...ar_28,_2002.htm

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