15 Years of MissingKids.ca: The Search for Missing Children Continues

Winnipeg, Canada - On this year’s International Missing Children’s Day, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) marks 15 years of operating MissingKids.ca, a service dedicated to supporting missing child investigations and impacted families.

Launched in 2011, MissingKids.ca helps provide families, law enforcement agencies, and child-serving organizations across Canada with investigative support, case coordination, public awareness assistance, and specialized resources to help locate missing children.

As part of this year’s milestone, C3P is emphasizing the ongoing need for concentrated efforts to locate missing children and ensure their families are supported.

“Our centre stands with families during devastating and unimaginable times, helping bring missing children home and ensuring families are never left to navigate the experience alone,” says Lianna McDonald, executive director of C3P. “The need for continued investigations for long-term missing cases cannot be diminished. Every missing child deserves to be recovered, and every family deserves to be restored.”

In the last year,¹ MissingKids.ca received 114 reports regarding missing child cases. In many of these cases, the children have been safely located and safeguarded.

C3P’s roots trace back to Child Find Manitoba, founded by Wilma Derksen in response to the abduction and murder of her daughter Candace. Wilma wanted to provide essential services to families with missing children that her own family didn’t have access to.

To learn more or view active missing children cases across Canada, visit MissingKids.ca/missing-children-database/.

1. 1 April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026 ↩