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Heading Home?

Daily Colonist25 July 1964p. 16Before 1979

“Heading Home?”, Daily Colonist, p. 16, 25 July 1964 licence unknown
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Summary

An elderly man who was the object of a search in the Sooke area might be attempting to return to his former home in Campbell River, Sooke RCMP said, after a party of about 20 Sooke residents and police searched the bush and mudflats in Sooke without result. The Sooke detachment notified Campbell River RCMP on the Friday evening to investigate in the hope the missing man might be found up-island. The missing man was named as Waldo Adamson, 63, who had been living with relatives in Sooke since April, and who left his home near the Sooke RCMP detachment office at about 5:20 p.m. on the Thursday to go for a walk.

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Details

Headline	“Heading Home?”
Publication	Daily Colonist
Date	25 July 1964
Page	16
Era	Before 1979
Document type	news report
Original article	Internet Archive — the Daily Colonist, July 25, 1964, page 16 ↗
Source	britishcolonist.ca (University of Victoria)
Accessed	2026-08-04
Licensing	licence unknown
Record confidence	confirmed

Archivist's note

A community turnout of about twenty Sooke residents searching alongside police - the same informal pattern seen in the 1953, 1959 and 1960 items. No organization is named.

The clipping

Scan of Daily Colonist, page 16, 25 July 1964 — the article “Heading Home?” — The article as printed; the crop is only partly verified. crop re-OCR matched 39% of the article text.

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Internet Archive — the Daily Colonist, July 25, 1964, page 16 ↗ free to read
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https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist19640725#page/n15/mode/1up

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Archive notes

Shared page. p16 carries unrelated content including a 'Seen In Passing' personality column. The summary describes only the Adamson item. OCR quality 0.75. The outcome of the search is not reported in this article and no follow-up is held in the archive. 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 1964-07-25-daily-colonist-p16-adamson-sooke-search. Original file in the project archive: 06_pre_formation/1964-07-25_daily_colonist_p16_adamson_sooke_search.pdf.

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