Robert Norman Plewes was 19 when he was last seen on June 30, 1984, leaving his Toronto home and driving north in the family pick-up. He worked as a landscape gardener and served with the Royal Regiment of Canada. A confirmed stop was made at the family’s usual service station where he paid for gasoline with a credit card.

Six days later the truck was found abandoned outside the west gate of Algonquin Park. Plewes had packed very few clothes but took survival gear including knives, a compass, field glasses and two guns, and apparently little, if any, food. He was described as quiet and mild-mannered; at the time he was about six feet one inch, 161 pounds, with short blonde hair and blue eyes and was last believed to be wearing army camouflage fatigues.

No trace of him has ever been found and there is no definitive explanation for his disappearance. If anyone has information about Robert’s movements around late June 1984 or remembers seeing him or the truck near Algonquin Park, please come forward.