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Anyone who spoke to man missing in Fairy Creek area asked to contact Sooke RCMP

Times Colonist5 November 2021p. A4Times ColonistJDF SAR era

Times Colonist. “Anyone who spoke to man missing in Fairy Creek area asked to contact Sooke RCMP”, Times Colonist, p. A4, 5 November 2021 ref-only
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Summary

Sooke RCMP were continuing to look for a 61-year-old man believed to have been last seen hiking between two camps in the Fairy Creek watershed area on 13 October. Gerald Kearney was reported missing on 21 October. Members of the RCMP emergency response team, directed by the Juan de Fuca search and rescue search manager, carried out [searching described beyond the region read].

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Details

Headline“Anyone who spoke to man missing in Fairy Creek area asked to contact Sooke RCMP”
PublicationTimes Colonist
Date5 November 2021
PageA4
BylineTimes Colonist
EraJDF SAR era
Document typenews report
Original articleTimes Colonist — the article on the publisher’s own site ↗
SourceProQuest Digital Times Colonist via GVPL
Accessed2026-07-16
Licensingref-only
Record confidenceconfirmed

Archivist's note

The only article in the archive in which an RCMP emergency response team works under the direction of the Juan de Fuca search manager - a clear statement of who holds operational command of a ground search in British Columbia. The Fairy Creek watershed setting also places the team at the far western end of its response area during the period of the Fairy Creek logging protests.

The clipping

Scan of Times Colonist, page A4, 5 November 2021 — the article “Anyone who spoke to man missing in Fairy Creek area asked to contact Sooke RCMP”
The article as printed. Clipping cut on 2026-07-30 after reading the page: headline, byline, both text columns, and the photograph with its cutline. Verified by re-OCR: 257 words, 24 of 29 distinctive terms present..

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Archive notes

Shared page: the scan is a full newspaper page whose other content is unrelated. The summary describes only this article. OCR quality 0.95. The outcome of the search is not given in this article and no follow-up is held in the archive. The ProQuest bulk export indexes a related Times Colonist page at 2021-10-31 A4 that is not held as a scan; PEOPLE_INDEX.md records a separate Jean-Michel Cabunes search from November 2021, also unheld.

Record id 2021-11-05-times-colonist-pa4-rcmp-ert-directed-by-jdfsar. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2021-11-05_times_colonist_pA4_rcmp_ert_directed_by_jdfsar.pdf.

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