Jonas Haineault was a 68-year-old man reported missing from Anzac, Alberta, after he disappeared on August 15, 1977. In the period leading up to his disappearance, Haineault had been visiting members of his family in Lymburn, Alberta, a small community in the western part of the province. His known journey then took him to nearby Hythe, where he boarded a bus bound for Edmonton. What should have been an ordinary trip became the final known movement in a case that has endured for decades. According to the official Canadian missing-person record, Haineault's family never heard from him again after he left Hythe, and investigators have been unable to determine whether he ever reached Edmonton. The uncertainty surrounding that bus journey remains central to understanding his disappearance: he was known to have departed for Edmonton, but there is no confirmed account establishing where he went after boarding the bus or what happened to him along the route.
Haineault was born in 1909 and is identified in the national missing-person record as an Indigenous male. He stood approximately 173 centimetres, or 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighed about 64 kilograms, or 141 pounds, and had a slender or thin build. He had brown eyes and black hair, and an additional identifying characteristic recorded by investigators is that he wore false teeth. No clothing description is listed in the official case record, leaving investigators and the public with relatively few physical details beyond his general appearance and dental characteristic. The passage of time has made those limited details especially important, because there is no documented confirmation that Haineault was seen after beginning his journey from Hythe toward Edmonton. His disappearance left his family without an explanation for why he failed to make contact, whether something happened during the trip, or whether he ever reached the city he intended to visit.
The case is recorded by Canada's Missing under case reference 2014004104 and remains associated with the Wood Buffalo RCMP, which lists reference number 20141521845 for information relating to the investigation. The official record does not describe a confirmed sighting after Haineault boarded the bus, nor does it provide evidence establishing that he voluntarily changed his plans, reached another destination, or encountered a specific person after leaving Hythe. That absence of information has left a significant gap between the last known journey and everything that followed. Anyone who possesses information about Haineault's movements, people he may have met, his intended plans in Edmonton, or anything that occurred during his trip can provide that information to the Wood Buffalo RCMP, Crime Stoppers, or the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains. More than four decades after Jonas Haineault left while visiting family and boarded a bus for Edmonton, his story remains defined by one unanswered question: what happened after he began that journey on August 15, 1977? In overview, the case concerns a 68-year-old Indigenous man connected to Anzac who was visiting family in Lymburn, departed nearby Hythe by bus for Edmonton, was never heard from again, and whose whereabouts after boarding that bus remain unknown.
Last Seen: Aug 15, 1977
