A search for a man missing from a cabin along Highway 3 is continuing, though some involved say there isn’t enough support.
Ralph Beaulieu wasn’t at a cabin between Yellowknife and Behchokǫ̀ where he had been expected. Initial search efforts in the area haven’t located him.
Police said on Saturday that a search had begun, involving RCMP alongside the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association and Yellowknife Ground Search and Rescue.
However, friends of the Beaulieu family who have helped with the search say in practice, few people are involved and progress has been frustrating.
Beaulieu is understood to have been raised in Fort Resolution. On Facebook, Chief Louis Balsillie of the Fort Resolution-based Deninu Kųę́ First Nation appealed for more government help and the intervention of the Canadian Rangers.
“There’s really no one out there but his family members and a few members from Behchokǫ̀,” Balsillie wrote.
Another person who turned up to help told Cabin Radio: “I anticipated a search party and all kinds of people there. It was three family members.”
In an update provided after this article was first published on Monday, RCMP said the search for Beaulieu continued. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call 867-392-1111.
Police said Beaulieu was “dropped off at the cabin on April 23 with a plan to head out onto the land on April 29 and ultimately be picked up on May 8.”
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