David Sawyer was 20 when he disappeared after a fishing trip on Pickerel Lake, Ontario, on May 17, 1977. He and his girlfriend were last known to be together in a canoe; the canoe was later recovered capsized but David himself was never found. Authorities treated the incident as a presumed drowning, but without recovering his remains the circumstances and timing of what happened on the water could not be fully established.

Records list him as born in 1956, about 5 feet 11 inches tall, 154 pounds, with a slender build, light complexion, short red hair and good teeth. The case remains open in Canada’s national missing-person system under reference RM10032665, with the Almaguin Highlands OPP and the OPP Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains named as contacts.

Did anyone who fished or boated on Pickerel Lake around May 17, 1977, ever see a capsized canoe or recall that day’s conditions?