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Hiker killed in fall from trail

Times Colonist17 August 2004p. 13JDF SAR era

Times Colonist, p. 13, 17 August 2004 ref-only

Summary

A 22-year-old Alberta man died following a hiking accident on the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail. The man, from St. Albert, suffered injuries after falling about 15 metres from a cliff near Bear Beach on the Saturday, one of the trail sites designated for beach camping. He had been hiking on the 47-kilometre trail with a group of people from both Victoria and Alberta, including his grandfather. A B.C. Ambulance helicopter arrived ahead of a Sooke Search-and-Rescue crew and airlifted the man to Victoria General Hospital, where he died on the Sunday. His name was not released because relatives were still being contacted, and Sooke RCMP Cpl. Garth Cunningham commented on the case.

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.

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Headline“Hiker killed in fall from trail”
Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
PublicationTimes Colonist
Date17 August 2004
Page13
EraJDF SAR era
Document typenews report
SourceProQuest Times Colonist archive (BC ELN)
no external link recorded
Accessed2026-07-15
Licensingref-only
Record confidenceconfirmed

Archivist's note

The first fatality on the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail recorded in this archive. Note that the team is still called "Sooke Search and Rescue" in August 2004, ten months after Bylaw 3101 was adopted - further evidence that the public name changed gradually rather than at a single date.

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Scan of Times Colonist, page 13, 17 August 2004 — the catalogued article
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Shared page: the scan is a full newspaper page whose other content is unrelated. The summary describes only this article. SENSITIVE: a death. The subject is unnamed in the article itself. Best available text is the embedded PDF text layer (legibility 0.930 vs 0.918 fresh OCR).

Record id 2004-08-17-times-colonist-p13-airlift-rescue. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2004-08-17_times_colonist_p13_airlift_rescue.pdf.

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