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« Reply #40 on: July 27, 2008, 02:53:20 PM »

Father of missing Quebec girl holds out hope for return one year later

MONTREAL — Martin Provencher has one simple message for his 10-year-old daughter who has been missing for almost one year - "Hang on."

Even though it's been months since investigators have brought forward any new leads, the tireless father of Cedrika Provencher hasn't given up hope of finding her.

The young girl vanished on July 31, 2007, near her home in Trois-Rivieres, Que., after telling a woman she was helping a man look for a lost dog.

Her ever-determined father wants Cedrika to know that it's not just her parents, but everyone, including the police, who are still on alert.

"If there's a way to send us a signal, in whatever manner possible, she should do it," the soft-spoken Provencher said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

"I know that she's smart and if there's something, she could easily find a way to give us a clue."

Last month, the 36-year-old Provencher took part in another fruitless search with sniffer dogs after receiving some guidance from psychics.

The search party checked out a strip of highway near Cedrika's hometown, which is halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.

"It was a piece of land that wasn't done in the past," Provencher added.

He said that the search was carried out after several clairvoyants in the U.S. sent along some GPS co-ordinates.

Cedrika's 62-year-old grandfather Henri Provencher said the family believes the girl can still be found alive.

"We are sure Cedrika is somewhere with somebody and we must find her," he said.

A special mass, followed by an outdoor candlelight procession, will be held Thursday evening at the nearby Notre-Dame-du-Cap Basilica, a popular pilgrimage shrine for Catholics.

Martin Provencher says he stays motivated by the encouragement he gets from the local residents he meets in stores who tell him not to give up.

He is also kept going by the several thousand emails and calls he has received at an old bank building which serves as his search headquarters.

"We easily get about 20 emails every day," he said. "They have come from France, Africa, Mexico and Australia."

Provencher says sometimes information comes in which is passed on to Quebec provincial police.

Posters with the missing girl's picture also continue to appear along roads all the way down to Florida.

"A lot of truckers are still asking us for two-by-two foot posters they can put on their trailers," he said.

"I said from the beginning that we're working to find her and that's what we're going to do."

The slender, ever-polite man has not been working since Cedrika's disappearance and has only taken a few weeks off from the search to relax.

"I went camping and spent time in a chalet to rest up after what has been a tough year," he said in a lengthy interview.

A $100,000 reward for information to help track down the freckled-faced girl expired in May and despite thousands of tips, police say there have been no new developments since last fall.

In September 2007, provincial police released a description of a French-speaking man and a four-door red Acura car believed to be involved in the girl's disappearance.

The man in his 30s had approached several girls about needing help to look for a lost dog in the two days before Cedrika vanished.

Provincial police say the car is still an important part of the investigation.

During the past year, police also have verified several reported sightings in neighbouring New Brunswick and in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region north of Quebec City.

RCMP Cpl. Marie-France Olivera, who works with the force's National Missing Children Services, says there were 60,582 reports of missing children in 2007 but 75 per cent of them involved kids running away from home.

"Most of the runaway cases usually come back within the next 24 hours," said Olivera, whose unit acts as a clearing house for information and provides support for police forces.

But 56 cases - less than .1 per cent - were reported as kidnappings or stranger abductions of children under 18.

"Kidnapping in Canada is considered (as) anyone other than the parents or legal guardian," she said.

"But that could be a grandmother, it could be a friend, it could be somebody known the family."

Alberta and Ontario each had 17 stranger abductions last year, the highest among all the provinces and territories in Canada.

But Olivera pointed out that the two provinces also have large populations.

B.C., Saskatchewan and Quebec, followed with five kidnappings each.

Olivera said the statistics indicated that, in most cases, more females than males were targeted.

"It appears females seem to be more of a target simply because, if it's a total stranger, the motivation for taking a child, especially a female child, will be for sexual gratification," she added.

Olivera said U.S. statistics reveal the females who are kidnapped are usually between 10 and 12 years of age.

Pina Arcamone, who runs Quebec's Missing Children's Network, insists Cedrika has not been forgotten and the case will remain active until she is found.

"People are still extremely, extremely troubled by the fact that this little girl has disappeared without leaving a trace," she said in an interview.

Arcamone also said Provencher was in the final stages of putting together the paperwork to set up a foundation in Cedrika's name.

She has been in touch with Cedrika's father and the family, sending them emails "a couple of times a month."

"They're very, very tired at this point, emotionally exhausted from this experience and all the dead-ends that have come up," she said.

"But they're not ready to give up."

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« Reply #41 on: June 16, 2009, 10:21:16 PM »

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/C%C3%A9drika+Provencher+family+pleas+return+after+years+missing/1678720/story.html
Cédrika Provencher's family pleas for her return after 2 years missing
 
 
By Marianne White, Canwest News ServiceJune 9, 2009
While the search continues in Ontario for missing for eight-year-old Victoria Stafford, the family of another girl who disappeared nearly two years ago in Quebec has issued an emotional plea for information to help find her.

Cédrika Provencher was nine-years-old when she went missing in July 2007 in Trois-Rivieres, a town halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.

Police launched a massive search for the little girl in the months following her disappearance, but there have been no leads on her whereabouts. Nor has there been any arrests in the case.

The family has been relentlessly looking for Cedrika with the help of hundreds of volunteers across the province. But the little girl's father said Tuesday the family can't cope anymore with the stress and pain of not knowing where she is.

"We want to find Cedrika and put this behind us. Alive or dead we want to find her. The pain that our family has been going through has to stop," Martin Provencher told reporters in Trois-Rivieres.

The family has asked prominent Quebec lawyer Guy Bertrand to help them crack the case. The family has offered $170,000 out of money it has raised, to anyone who would come forward with information to help locate Cedrika.

People who confide in Bertrand will not be handed over to authorities, the lawyer said, citing client-lawyer confidentiality.

Bertrand said he hopes to speak with witnesses, people who know the presumed kidnappers and even the kidnappers themselves.

"I am convinced that someone somewhere knows something about Cedrika's disappearance," Bertrand told a news conference. "Maybe they have remorse and they need to clear their conscience," he added.

Cedrika's parents are desperate to find out what happened to her and are willing to accept that they might never know who took their daughter or that the perpetrators could get away with it and with a large sum of money.

"Who wouldn't want to find their child? That's all we want," the girl's father said, adding he still thinks there is a chance his daughter will be found alive.

The girl's grandfather urged the abductors to seize this opportunity.

"We are offering them an extraordinary chance to provide information behind closed doors. No one will ever know what they said," Henri Provencher said Tuesday.

The lawyer stressed he is acting independently of the police and doesn't want to interfere with their work. Bertrand will work on the case until Sept. 30.

An earlier $100,000 reward from police for information about the girl did not yield any information.

The Provencher family offered words of hope as the search for Victoria Stafford got underway in Ontario in mid-April. The case also renewed interest and boosted calls with tips in the ongoing search for Cedrika.

The search for Stafford continued Tuesday in the county of Wellington, Ont. Oxford community police Const. Laurie-Anne Maitland acknowledged searches like this one or that for Cedrika take time and that can sometimes yield frustrations.

"I can't even imagine being in (Cedrika) parents' shoes and I think whatever hope they thought they could get from whatever effort it would take, a parent might do that," she said about their initiative to enlist a prominent lawyer.

On May 20, two arrests were made in the Stafford case. Terri-Lynne McClintic, 19, and Michael Rafferty, 28, each has been charged with first-degree murder.
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« Reply #42 on: June 16, 2009, 10:24:26 PM »

Please Help Find Cedrika Provencher http://cedrika.org/

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« Reply #43 on: June 21, 2009, 05:57:33 PM »

http://www.canada.com/news/Cedrika+Provencher+year+search+freckle+faced+Quebec+girl/1678679/story.html
Cedrika Provencher: The two-year search for a freckle-faced Quebec girl
 
Global NewsJune 9, 2009
Almost two years before Tori Stafford was abducted in Woodstock, Ont., another young girl went missing near her home in Quebec. Here is a look at the disappearance of Cedrika Provencher.

July 31, 2007: Nine-year-old Cedrika Provencher disappears in Trois-Rivières, Que., after telling a woman she was helping a man look for a lost dog,

August 1, 2007: Quebec provincial police find Cedrika’s grey and white bicycle behind a garbage dumpster, two kilometers from where the girl was last seen.

Police look for a man whom they believed approached Cedrika, and several other young girls, claiming he needed help looking for his dog.

Aug. 13, 2007: Businesses, organizations and individuals chip in to offer $80,000 as a reward for information leading to the girl’s whereabouts. By November, that number climbs to $100,000.

Aug. 23, 2007: Quebec provincial police say a girl matching the description of Cedrika Provencher is spotted with a man in a restaurant in Chandler, Que., more than 900 kilometres east of Montreal. Roadblocks are set up but authorities don’t find any trace of the man or the girl.

Sept. 6, 2007: Quebec police release descriptions of a car and man they believe are connected to the disappearance Cedrika. Police tell the public to be on the lookout for a white man with brown hair who has access to a red four-door Acura, probably manufactured between 2002 and 2004. They say the man is in his 30s.

Sept. 8, 2007:
Authorities search for Cedrika in Fredericton, N.B., after receiving a tip she had been spotted there. A woman had told police she saw a man and a girl resembling Cedrika get out of a light-grey minivan with Quebec plates. But the woman later reveals she has never seen a picture of the missing girl.

Sept. 21, 2007: Someone calls provincial police in Quebec saying Cedrika was seen in a white car with U.S. license plates near the U.S. border. Tip leads nowhere.

Sept. 23, 2007: Cedrika’s father helps launch a song written about his daughter. The lyrics urge listeners not to give up hope. The French-language song, called Cedrika, was distributed to French-language radio stations in Quebec. Proceeds are to go to a fun set up to help the family look for Cedrika.

Dec. 21, 2007:
Quebec provincial police investigate five “persons of interest” who could have been near or on the scene where Cedrika disappeared. The names of these five people are not released.

May 31, 2008: The $100,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Cedrika expires. Police decide to return the money to anonymous donors.

July 22, 2008:
Francophone comic Mike Ward comes under fire for using Cedrika’s disappearance as a punch line to one of his jokes. During a comedy festival in Montreal, he joked that the provincial tax collection department would take the children of those who owe money. "Revenu Quebec, they're mentally ill. You owe them $8 and they'll kidnap your kids. They're the ones who have little Cedrika."

July 31, 2008: More than a thousand people attend a mass marking the one-year anniversary of Cedrika’s disappearance.

April 14, 2009:
Cedrika’s father offers advice to the family of Tori Stafford, an eight-year-old girl who disappeared outside her school in Woodstock, Ont., six days earlier: “It's the type of situation that drastically changes your life, but the key is not give up hope, to keep up pressure on the police and ensure that they're doing everything they can.”

June 9, 2009: Cedrika’s family enlists the help of prominent lawyer Guy Bertrand to help find the little girl. Bertrand offers a $170,000 reward for information leading to Cedrika’s whereabouts. He says he’ll gather information until the end of September at no charge. He says people can provide him with information anonymously. He says those who do won’t be handed over to the authorities.
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« Reply #44 on: July 28, 2009, 06:44:15 PM »

2 years on, family still hopes to find missing Quebec girl
 
By Jason Magder, Montreal GazetteJuly 27, 2009

MONTREAL — Henri Provencher is never far from his phone. He says he's just one good tip away from finding his granddaughter.

Friday will mark the second anniversary of Cedrika Provencher's disappearance from Trois-Rivieres, halfway between Montreal and Quebec City. She was last seen asking neighbours if they had seen a lost white and black dog. Her disappearance triggered an outpouring of support and sympathy from across the province, and around the world.

Now, after two years of searching, the family is still optimistic Cedrika will turn up. They have set up a search headquarters in a donated office. The walls are adorned with letters of support from around the world, photographs of Cedrika, and news reports about her disappearance.

"I don't think anyone in the family thought we would be still searching two years later," Provencher said. "But I think the whole family still has a lot of hope that the little one will come back to us, that we will finally find her. This is certain."

Provencher goes into the search office every day and systematically checks out tips that pour in through e-mail or phone calls. He says every member of the Provencher family is working on finding Cedrika.

"We check every little piece of information we have, because we can't take anything for granted," he said.

Quebec provincial police said officers continue to investigate the case of Cedrika's disappearance. Well-known lawyer Guy Bertrand is also on the case. He was asked by the family to act as a middleman, so people who confide in him won't be handed over to authorities.

Aside from trying to find Cedrika, the family is also pushing for Quebec to change the way it handles disappearances.

They have been openly critical about how police handle such cases, saying too much time is lost after a disappearance is first reported.

"We've said since the beginning that there was an enormous amount of time that was lost (in the search for Cedrika)," Provencher said. "We should be able to intervene in the first few minutes (after) a disappearance is reported, if a criminal abduction is suspected."

The Provenchers have supported a plea by a Quebec group to create a special task force to look into disappearances.

Group president Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, whose daughter was killed seven years ago, said Quebec lags far behind other jurisdictions when it comes to solving disappearances, saying only about 15 per cent of disappearances are solved in Quebec while in the U.S., it's around 50 per cent.

Boisvenu said a specialized squad would group the top specialists in one place and allow police to develop a better strategy to deal with disappearances.

"In Cedrika's case, it took too long before it was declared to be a criminal act," Boisvenu said. "There was a lack of co-ordination on the part of police in the first hours of her disappearance."

Monday, Mario Vaillancourt, a spokesman for Quebec's public security ministry, said there was no plan to put in place such a squad, saying that the focus was to improve training among all of Quebec's police officers.

Vaillancourt added a specialized quad based in Montreal or Quebec City would not be able to act as quickly if an abduction occurred elsewhere.

The Provencher family is inviting the public to send words of encouragement to the family or good wishes to Cedrika, through the website www.Cedrika.com.

For the second year in a row, a mass will be held Friday in Trois-Rivieres.
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« Reply #45 on: July 31, 2009, 03:36:27 PM »

Cédrika's family wants task force on missing children
Catholic mass will mark 2nd anniversary of girl's disappearance
Last Updated: Friday, July 31, 2009 | 1:39 PM ET Comments0Recommend1CBC News
The family of Cédrika Provencher wants the Quebec government to create a special task force to investigate cases of missing children.

To mark the second anniversary of the disappearance of the nine-year-old, a mass for Cédrika will be held at L'église Notre Dame du Cap in Trois-Rivières Friday evening.

Cédrika's grandfather, Henri Provencher, has become the family's main spokesman. He begins every morning answering calls and sorting through emails at an office space the family uses as a command centre in Trois-Rivières.

The space was donated to the family rent-free. Provencher said he has to treat his time at the office like a real job, otherwise he wouldn't be able to carry on.

Cédrika's grandmother says the anniversary is more difficult for the family this year because police have not revealed any new leads.

Louise Provencher says she wishes investigators were more readily available when the family has questions.

She said it's been a year since the family met with police.

She wants Quebec to create a special task force to look into disappearances, especially of children.

The family has been critical of police in the past, saying too much time is lost after a disappearance is reported.

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« Reply #46 on: October 16, 2009, 09:32:33 PM »

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Lawyer+continues+hunt+girl/2053047/story.html

Lawyer continues hunt for girl

Canwest News ServiceSeptember 30, 2009
  Lawyer Guy Bertrand said yesterday he is extending his mandate as special investigator to help find Cédrika Provencher, a Trois Rivières girl who has been missing since July 2007.

Cédrika was 9 years old when she disappeared. Her family has offered a $170,000 reward to anyone who would help locate her, while Bertrand has agreed to provide confidentiality to anyone with information. The deal was to have expired yesterday, but Bertrand announced he is giving himself more time to crack the case: His offer and the reward have been extended to Dec. 31.

The Provencher family said it is "relieved" to see Bertrand continue his mission.
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« Reply #47 on: October 16, 2009, 11:08:29 PM »

I'm glad to see Cedrika and her family have Guy Bertrand to help champion the search, and is extending it.  I see there is a very large reward of $170,000.00 to help locate her and Guy Bertand is offering confidentiality.  Yet it doesn't seem any one has come forward.  I wonder if it's fear that stops them?  Someone must know something.  I hope there will be a tip or a lead that can help bring Cedrika back home.   an angelic monkey
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« Reply #48 on: October 17, 2009, 03:31:23 AM »

Hi MuffyBee!  I hope so too!  Prayers for Cedrika & her family. an angelic monkey
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« Reply #49 on: October 17, 2009, 09:00:03 AM »

Hi MuffyBee!  I hope so too!  Prayers for Cedrika & her family. an angelic monkey

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« Reply #50 on: February 10, 2010, 03:20:48 PM »

Lawyer reports 21 leads in Cedrika Provencher case

Updated: Wed Feb. 03 2010 10:56:53 AM
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Lawyer Guy Bertrand says his six-month investigation into the disappearance of a young girl has resulted in nearly two-dozen leads that will be transferred to police. Bertrand told a news conference in Trois-Rivieres Wednesday that he had received 342 detailed pieces of information about the disappearance of Cedrika Provencher. He says only 21 leads were "highly credible," including information from an inmate in a Quebec prison who claims to have molested Cedrika.

But Bertrand says he's troubled by the lack of tangible results in the search for the girl, who went missing in Trois-Rivieres in July 2007. Provencher was nine years old when she vanished. The young girl was last seen asking people in her neighbourhood if they had seen a lost dog.

Bertrand has submitted his findings to several police forces, as well as the office of premier Jean Charest.

Bertrand says he has asked the Quebec bar and the justice department to name an independent prosecutor to draft recommendations that could help to advance missing persons' cases.

He's also suggesting the Public Security department and the Surete du Quebec create a centralized agency to gather and analyze information about missing people.
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« Reply #51 on: February 10, 2010, 03:21:37 PM »

Lawyer: I'm on trail of Cédrika's abductor

Canwest News Service
February 4, 2010

Prominent Quebec lawyer Guy Bertrand says he has passed several credible tips to police to help solve the disappearance of a little girl, including details about the identity of her alleged kidnapper.

Bertrand acted as an independent prosecutor in the case of Cédrika Provencher, who was 9 years old when she was last seen in July 2007. The Sûreté du Québec confirmed yesterday they indeed received tips from the lawyer and noted every one of them has been thoroughly verified.

"But so far, no information has helped us locate Cédrika, nor make any arrests in the case," said SQ spokeswoman Eloise Cossette.

Bertrand acknowledged he is disappointed his work hasn't yet paid off, but said he remains confident it will eventually lead to the arrest of the people responsible for Cédrika's disappearance.

"My mission has not yielded the expected results, so far, and I stress, so far," Bertrand told a televised news conference in Trois Rivières, where Cédrika lived and was last seen. "To the family, please don't lose hope. We are going to find Cédrika," he added.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Lawyer+trail+Cédrika+abductor/2519865/story.html
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« Reply #52 on: April 11, 2012, 04:54:35 PM »

Apx 27 miles northeast.....
totally possible

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Police are investigating after human bones were discovered in a field near Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade Monday evening.
 
The remains were found by hunters near Highway 40.
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« Reply #53 on: April 11, 2012, 05:12:47 PM »

I agree Nut, "totally possible".   Sadly, Cedrika disappeared almost five years ago  an angelic monkey
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