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New evidence revives search for hiker missing near Sooke
Times Colonist7 July 2023p. A1JDF SAR era
“New evidence revives search for hiker missing near Sooke”, Times Colonist, p. A1, 7 July 2023 ref-only
Summary
The search for a hiker who went missing the previous December in the Sooke area was set to resume on the Saturday after new information was discovered, police said. Data from McDevitt's smartwatch had helped narrow down the area to be searched, CHEK News reported. People were being asked to avoid the area to accommodate search efforts. McDevitt, 34, an avid hiker, was last seen on surveillance video on 9 December carrying hiking poles in the Charters Creek fish hatchery parking lot on Sooke River Road, a few kilometres from Sooke Potholes. She had been due to fly to North Carolina on 10 December.
Details
| Headline | “New evidence revives search for hiker missing near Sooke” |
|---|---|
| Publication | Times Colonist |
| Date | 7 July 2023 |
| Page | A1 |
| 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
Seven months after the original nine-day search, smartwatch data reopened it. Note that this article gives McDevitt's age as 34 while the December 2022 reports and the December 2023 report both give 38 — recorded as printed, not reconciled. 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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