Blake Patrick McCool, 63, of Etobicoke, Ontario, was last contacted in mid-November 2015; his family reported him missing to Toronto Police on December 26, 2015. Family members told police he may have travelled to the Elliot Lake area to go hunting, a remote region north of the city.

On March 18, 2016 the Ontario Provincial Police located his white 2009 Dodge CTX four-door hatchback abandoned at the end of an old logging road in the Portelance Lake area north of Elliot Lake. An initial search around the vehicle found no sign of Blake. In May 2016 the OPP renewed the search and issued a public appeal, describing him as a white male about 5 feet 10 inches tall, thin, about 160 pounds, with short grey hair, a grey mustache, grey eyes and sometimes a grey beard; his clothing at disappearance was unknown.

He arrived at the remote hunting area but his movements after parking the car are unexplained. If anyone was in the Portelance Lake or nearby logging roads that winter or spring and saw Blake, his vehicle, or anything unusual, please share what was seen.