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Sooke Area Search Fails

Daily Colonist8 May 1962p. 12Before 1979

Daily Colonist, p. 12, 8 May 1962 licence unknown
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Summary

Sooke RCMP were continuing their investigation of a piece of lifejacket found floating off Otter Point during the weekend. RCAF search and rescue headquarters in Vancouver had no reports of anyone missing in the area. It was believed the jacket was of American Navy design.

Written from the article text only. Where the scan is hard to read, the summary was taken from the page image rather than the OCR.

Details

Headline	“Sooke Area Search Fails” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
Publication	Daily Colonist
Date	8 May 1962
Page	12
Era	Before 1979
Document type	news report
Original article	Internet Archive — the Daily Colonist, May 8, 1962, page 12 ↗
Source	britishcolonist.ca (University of Victoria)
Accessed	2026-08-04
Licensing	licence unknown
Record confidence	probable

Archivist's note

The filename calls this a Sooke-area search that failed, but the item as printed is a short police brief about an unidentified lifejacket, not an account of a ground search. It is the only marine-oriented item in the pre-formation set and the only one that names RCAF search and rescue. Worth keeping for the record of what did and did not trigger a search in 1962.

The clipping

Scan of Daily Colonist, page 12, 8 May 1962 — the catalogued article — The article as printed; the crop is only partly verified. crop re-OCR matched 58% of the article text.

Read the original online

Internet Archive — the Daily Colonist, May 8, 1962, page 12 ↗ free to read
Free to read. Digitized by the Internet Archive; britishcolonist.ca (University of Victoria) indexes the same scans.
https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist19620508#page/n11/mode/1up

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Archive notes

Shared page and a very short item - only three OCR blocks on the page relate to it. The summary covers the whole of the item as printed. The filename slug 'sooke_area_search_fails' does not match the content of the brief and may have been assigned from a search-result snippet rather than from the article; flagged for review. PROVENANCE GAP: not listed in TABLE_OF_CONTENTS.md. Provenance resolved 2026-08-04: located via britishcolonist.ca's search index (solrcurl), which points to the underlying scan on the Internet Archive (dailycolonist collection); the source_url above is that specific page. Confirmed by matching distinctive article text (not just date/page) against the OCR text at that Internet Archive item.

Record id 1962-05-08-daily-colonist-p12-sooke-area-search-fails. Original file in the project archive: 06_pre_formation/1962-05-08_daily_colonist_p12_sooke_area_search_fails.pdf.

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