The woman's name had not been released but a photograph of her had been distributed. "We had our [RCMP boat] out on the water [and] had a private helicopter assisting," said Sooke RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve Wright, adding that a determination would be made at that point as to whether the search would continue. About 50 searchers from several Island communities were involved, and a number of them knew the woman, who had volunteered with Juan de Fuca search-and-rescue for more than 10 years. Searching began on the Thursday night after the missing woman's husband located [her car].
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“Search goes into third day” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
The middle report of the three-day Times Colonist sequence on the January 2014 East Sooke search, and the one that records the detail the rest of the archive lacked: the missing woman had herself volunteered with Juan de Fuca search and rescue for more than ten years. The searchers looking for her knew her. The front page of 2014-01-04 and the closing report of 2014-01-07 are both held. This page was recovered from inside the ProQuest bulk export already held in the archive, where it had been listed as referenced but not held.
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The full page. The article region could not be verified automatically, so the whole page is shown rather than risk a clipping that cuts off the article. the whole page is shown; the article region within it has not been isolated.
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This is a full newspaper page and carries unrelated stories as well as the article summarised here. The text is the OCR made from the ProQuest bulk export during the 2026 research phase, not a fresh pass. This page had been listed as referenced but not held; it was recovered from page 92 of the bulk export.
Record id 2014-01-05-times-colonist-pa3-penwarn-search-wright. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 92).
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4 January 2014A sprawling search was under way for a woman believed to be missing in East Sooke Regional Park.
