Single Mother Found Dead In Snow Drift — Flora Muskego (1960)
Flora Muskego was a mother from Norway House Cree Nation, one of the largest Indigenous communities in Nothern Manitoba. Friends and family described her as a beautiful young woman with a love for fashion and her niece, Sylvia Grier, credits her Aunt Flora with introducing her to makeup as a little girl. It is known that Flora Muskego had been working at a hospital in Winnipeg where she had been living.
Shortly before Flora’s disappearance, she had come home and according to her niece, she had returned with an infant baby boy. Unfortunately, not much more is known about Flora’s time in Winnipeg or who the father of her son was.
“She was by herself. She was a single mother,” Sylvia Grier, Flora’s niece, explained.
On December 8th, 1960, we know that Flora had gone out, although it is unclear where, and by evening her family had noticed she hadn’t returned home.
The following day Flora’s remains were found on an ice-covered road in an area of her community, near Fort Island. Flora was found without a winter coat or jacket, frozen to death in a snowdrift. Shortly after, a small newspaper clipping run by the Winnipeg Free Press covered Flora’s death. It stated very little information about Flora or her…
