“Search continues for missing woman after vehicle found in Sooke”, Times Colonist, p. A1, 13 December 2022 ref-only
Summary
Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue personnel returned to the mobile command base during the search for Melissa McDevitt in the Sooke Potholes area on the Monday. McDevitt, a Victoria resident, had been missing since the Friday when she was last seen heading to a hiking trail.
Written from the article text only. Where the scan is hard to read, the summary was taken from the page image rather than the OCR.
Details
Headline
“Search continues for missing woman after vehicle found in Sooke”
The front page that opens the longest search in the archive's record. It ran from December 2022 to December 2023 and drew, at its peak, eighty searchers from eleven teams. The archive now holds six Times Colonist reports across that year, all recovered from the bulk export, plus the Sooke News Mirror piece that confirms the outcome. 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
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. Recovered from page 52 of the bulk export. A photograph by Darren Stone runs with the front-page item; the article continues on page A8, which is not held.
Record id 2022-12-13-times-colonist-pa1-mcdevitt-search. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 50).
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13 December 2022Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue personnel returned to the mobile command base during the search for Melissa McD
