In late spring of 1980, Slave Lake was burning.

In one day, the wildfires just outside the small town in Alberta would take the life of a water bomber pilot, the efforts of over 125 RCMP officers, and destroy the innocence of a boy, his family and an entire community.

Toronto Police are appealing for information about the historic disappearance of 15-year-old Nancy Liou, last seen in 1999, along with that of Richard David Marlow (age 9, 1944), Helga Kaserer (age 13, 1960) and Amber Carrie Potts Jaffary (age 16, 1988).

On August 13, 1967, 14-year-old Sylvia Linda Klayh was at her family’s cabin in Brereton Lake, Manitoba, with her father and two siblings. Sylvia had spent the morning arguing with her father…

More than 52 years after she disappeared, investigators are treating Sylvia’s case as a homicide.

“I am still without any news from you, always in the unknown, always asking myself questions for nearly 40 years,” Liliane Cyr wrote to her daughter in 2018.

“That represents 14,595 days. Where are you? Why have we not found you?”⁣

4,024 km. If you believe the story, that’s how far 19-year-old Mary Frances Gregory was from her home in Parry Sound, Ontario, when she disappeared. ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣

Yves Jodouin was the third of four children. At 16 years old, he was a budding artist and comic book collector, described by those who knew him as polite and well-liked. At only 4’9”, his already small stature was compounded by his struggles with Anorexia Nervosa.

In 1974, Brent Cameron Forsyth was 11 years old when he vanished from the shore of the Bulkley River in Hazelton, British Columbia. In 2016, new information added fuel the 46-year-old-question: where is Brent Forsyth?

On Friday, March 17, 1978, 30-year-old Bonnie Thomas drove across the border to go to a dance in Calais, Maine. She never made it home.

In early September, 1973, 31-year-old Marguerite Cardwell did two things: she purchased a .303 calibre hunting rifle, and on September 10, she told told a friend she was planning to travel to either Edmonton or Vancouver. The mother from Calgary was never seen again. 

The year Justin Pollari disappeared, there were 66,994 reports of missing children in Canada; 53,434 of those were classified as runaways.

There is only one photo of Carol Big Tobacco. There is no way of knowing what she looked like at eight years old, when she disappeared in Siksika First Nation, Alberta.

In May of 1982, Terry Zubko was admitted as a patient at the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital on Highway 11 North. He disappeared 46 days later.

Christine Ziomkiewicz had an ordinary Friday evening on June 23, 1978. The 27-year-old lab technician at Queen’s University went shopping, spoke to a neighbour, and went inside her apartment with groceries. By morning, she was gone without a trace.

Michelle Wedge was last seen riding her bike near her home on Moncton's Dominion Street on July 2, 1975. Her bicycle was later found on the southwest corner of John and Dominion streets.

In 1983, two teenage girls disappeared from Oakville, Ontario. Despite many tips over the years - and a promising sighting in 1987 - investigators have never been able to locate Jan Stonehouse and Darlene Tucker.