The search for missing kayaker Timothy Ross was suspended. The 38-year-old Langford man went missing on the Sunday after failing to return from a kayak trip that started about noon; a search began about 7 p.m. using a Cormorant helicopter and a Buffalo aircraft. A kayak believed to be his was found on the Wednesday near McMillan Road in Sooke, near where he is thought to have set out. Vickie Weber, senior search-and-rescue manager for Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue, said searchers returned to the area near where the kayak was found and went over it again; they also searched farther afield, assuming the kayak had reached the area from the west. "If we find some other clue or some other evidence, we can reopen the case." It remained an active missing-person file for the Sooke RCMP.
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“Search for missing kayaker near Sooke suspended” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
The closing report of the January 2021 kayak search. Weber's line — that the case can be reopened if another clue appears — is the archive's clearest statement of how an unresolved search is left standing rather than closed. 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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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. SENSITIVE: the subject was never found. Recovered from page 68 of the bulk export.
Record id 2021-01-15-times-colonist-pa2-ross-kayak-search-resumed. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 68).
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12 January 2021The Victoria Rescue Co-ordination Centre was contacted about 7 p.m.
