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<\/p>\nCanadian police are searching for a Victorian woman who disappeared while hiking on an island on the country’s east coast.<\/p>\n
Denise Ann Williams, 62, was last heard from on April 15, when she communicated that she was travelling to Ch\u00e9ticamp, a fishing village on Cape Breton Island in the province of Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n
She was reported missing on April 28, triggering an air and ground search.<\/p>\n
Her car was later found at a visitor centre near the start of the Acadian Trail, an 8.4-kilometre loop in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.<\/p>\n
Parks Canada ranks the Acadian Trail’s difficulty as “moderate”, noting it has steep inclines and rugged sections.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On its website, the agency advises hikers to “be on the look-out for black bear and moose”.<\/p>\n
Novia Scotia police corporal Mandy Edwards said wildlife could be a danger in the area at this time of year.<\/p>\n
“Bears are coming out of hibernation. It’s also mating season,” Corporal Edwards told the ABC.<\/p>\n
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Denise Ann Williams was last heard from on April 15, Canadian police say. (Supplied: Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted Police)<\/p>\n
Ms Williams had been travelling through the Atlantic provinces in Canada’s east, she said.<\/p>\n
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have released images and appealed for public help through local media.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully she’s encountered some people along the way who may recognise her from the photo that was released,” Corporal Edwards said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So our searchers will be looking at those clues and those tips from the public to help to direct their search.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian police are searching for a Victorian woman who disappeared while hiking on an island on the country’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12902,17,12903,12904,12901,12899,12898,242,12900],"class_list":["post-26811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-acadian-trail","tag-canada","tag-cape-breton-highlands-national-park","tag-cape-breton-island","tag-denise-ann-williams","tag-hiker","tag-missing","tag-nova-scotia","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}