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Search for missing kayaker expands

Times Colonist12 January 2021p. A4JDF SAR era

“Search for missing kayaker expands”, Times Colonist, p. A4, 12 January 2021 ref-only

Summary

The Victoria Rescue Co-ordination Centre was contacted about 7 p.m. on the Sunday about a kayaker who had set out around noon from an area near Ella Beach. Sooke RCMP said 38-year-old Timothy Ross, an experienced kayaker, was expected to return around 4 p.m. Several witnesses reported a solo kayaker travelling along the coast toward Port Renfrew, with the last sighting near the Shirley area, police said. Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue were actively searching the coastline, police said. A Cormorant helicopter and Buffalo aircraft were dispatched and searched until about 11 p.m. on the Sunday.

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Details

Headline	“Search for missing kayaker expands”
Publication	Times Colonist
Date	12 January 2021
Page	A4
Era	JDF SAR era
Document type	news report
Original article	ProQuest — the scanned page in the Times Colonist digital archive ↗
Source	ProQuest Digital Times Colonist via GVPL (bulk export 2026-07-16)
Accessed	2026-07-16
Licensing	ref-only
Record confidence	confirmed

Archivist's note

The first of three consecutive Times Colonist reports on the January 2021 kayak search, all three recovered from the bulk export. Together they are the most complete day-by-day account of a single search anywhere in the archive. 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.

The clipping

Scan of Times Colonist, page A4, 12 January 2021 — the full page, shown because the article region could not be verified — 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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Archive notes

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. Recovered from page 72 of the bulk export.

Record id 2021-01-12-times-colonist-pa4-ross-kayak-search. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 72).

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12 January 2021The Victoria Rescue Co-ordination Centre was contacted about 7 p.m.