Family of Kristina Ward marking the fourth anniversary of her disappearance

The family of a young Indigenous woman is marking the fourth anniversary of her disappearance in Metro Vancouver as her parents appeal for any information that could help them find her.

Kristina Ward was 20 years old when she left her home in Abbotsford to visit friends in Langley and was last seen on surveillance tape in Surrey on September 27th, 2017, walking with an unknown man.

Her parents walked the stretch of 104th Avenue at 140th Street today, retracing their daughter's last known steps, and urged anyone with information to contact Langley RCMP about the 5 foot 5 inch, 130 pound woman with long, curly brown hair, who would now be 24 years old.

Ward's mother says her daughter's name has been added to the database of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman and Girls and says in a statement that ``it's time to end the silence of an epidemic.''