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Search crews look for Montreal man at China Beach

Times Colonist31 October 2021p. A4JDF SAR era

“Search crews look for Montreal man at China Beach”, Times Colonist, p. A4, 31 October 2021 ref-only

Summary

Search and rescue crews resumed a search on the Saturday for a missing Montreal man whose rented motorhome was found at China Beach on the Friday. Twenty-seven Juan de Fuca search-and-rescue volunteers were in the area until midnight on the Friday looking for Jean-Michel Cabanes, who was last seen on 14 October in Saanich. The 70-year-old was reported missing after he failed to return the rented motorhome as expected on the Tuesday and did not board his flight home to Montreal on the Thursday. Saanich police believed the motorhome had been parked at China Beach for one week.

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Details

Headline	“Search crews look for Montreal man at China Beach”
Publication	Times Colonist
Date	31 October 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 archive's largest recorded single turnout of Juan de Fuca volunteers: twenty-seven, working until midnight. Note on the missing man's surname: this article prints "Cabanes", and a direct read of the follow-up's page image on 2026-08-06 confirms the Nov. 2 article also prints "Cabanes" — the previously recorded "Cabunes" in the follow-up and in PEOPLE_INDEX.md was an artifact of the bulk-export OCR (see conflicts.md C-32). 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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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 62 of the bulk export. Surname spelling differs between this article and its follow-up - see the archivist's note.

Record id 2021-10-31-times-colonist-pa4-kearney-search-volunteers. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 62).

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