Five-year-old Peter James MCKAY was last seen on New Year’s Eve, 1986, while playing on the ice along the South Saskatchewan River in the Riversdale area of Saskatoon. Born July 22, 1981, he fell into an open section of the river and disappeared; the powerful current and icy conditions prevented rescuers from recovering him. At the time he vanished he was wearing green pants, old hiking boots, and a dark blue and orange jacket with a yellow stripe on the cuffs.

The case has remained open. The Saskatoon Police Service and the RCMP’s Historical Case Unit have conducted searches of the river over the years as part of efforts tied to historical missing-person cases connected to the waterway, but Peter has never been found. Little beyond those last known details is publicly recorded about that afternoon.

Did anyone in Riversdale or along the South Saskatchewan River on December 31, 1986, see a young boy in that jacket or remember searches that day?