Yellowknife dad says support after theft of beloved truck in Alberta gives him hope

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 01, 2025 2:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: 38 minutes ago

A Yellowknife begetter says his motortruck being stolen successful Alberta implicit the play is frustrating – but the outpouring of enactment implicit the past fewer days has fixed him hope. 

"On 1 broadside of this, you know, there's the heinous enactment of idiosyncratic breaking into a vehicle, seeing kids blankets and stuffies and toys, and continuing to marque the determination to bargain it," said Myles Cane. 

"But, you know, the generous and empathetic broadside gives you benignant of anticipation for humanity and encourages you to support fighting, support looking for it," helium said. 

Cane and his 3 kids, 12-year-old Allison, 11-year-old Calvin and 8-year-old Zoey, had driven down to Edmonton for the Spring connected Ice hockey tourney implicit the weekend. They reached their edifice astir 8 p.m. Friday and 20 minutes aboriginal erstwhile 1 of the kids went to the motortruck to drawback a charging cable, the beloved 2005 Ford Excursion was gone.

The motortruck had sentimental value, said Cane. It had been heavy modified with, among different things, a caller drivetrain, a turbo diesel engine, and a newer interior. He said his kids helped him with immoderate of the work, and it's taken them connected respective roadworthy trips. 

Zoey said her favourite representation of the motortruck was a travel the household took to Kelowna, B.C., past summertime for hockey camp. Allison's favourite was a roadworthy travel to Drumheller, Alta. 

"We spent a batch of clip arsenic a household together," recalled Allison. In Drumheller, they met immoderate of their cousins for the archetypal clip and checked retired dinosaur bones astatine the Royal Tyrell Museum. 

"I privation it back," said Calvin. 

'It's truly getting retired there'

Speaking to CBC News from a edifice successful Grand Prairie, Alta., around luncheon connected Monday, Cane said the motortruck is "distinctive" and helium suspects idiosyncratic had followed them until they parked – waiting for an accidental to instrumentality it. What the culprit whitethorn person been little funny successful was the $6- to $7-thousand worthy of hockey instrumentality it was carrying, which belonged to aggregate families.

Cane has since discovered that determination are a batch of pages connected societal media dedicated to tracking down stolen vehicles. He made a post, and is amazed by the traction it attained online. One of his posts has been shared much than a 1000 times.

"I've talked to 4 random radical this greeting … and radical [are] like, 'oh, yea, I saw that connected Facebook.' So it's truly getting retired there. And I deliberation that's wherefore there's sightings." 

Cane said that RCMP were readying to reappraisal surveillance footage from a Tim Hortons successful the metropolis that day, and that a edifice helium stayed astatine had besides agreed to comb their footage arsenic well. 

He said radical person reported seeing the conveyance successful Grande Cache and Grand Prairie – and that it appeared to beryllium heading North, conscionable similar helium was. He had rented different conveyance to get his family back to Yellowknife aft the tournament. 

"It's imaginable we spot it. We're going to support our eyes open." 

By Tuesday, Cane said helium and his household were nearing High Level, Alta., and the fig of sightings had slowed.

"We're keeping our chins up and we're already … talking astir our adjacent build, however we're going to physique our adjacent one, if we don't get this 1 back," helium said.