Summary based on the NamUs case record (can2014005495) and
1 other sourceDavid Harrison Powell was a 62-year-old man when he was last seen on September 15, 2010, in the Spruce Grove area of Alberta. Online references to his disappearance place the case more specifically in the Parkland Village/Spruce Grove area, a community west of Edmonton that falls within the policing jurisdiction of the Parkland region. What began as an ordinary day became the dividing line between Powell’s known life and the uncertainty that followed.
After September 15, there was no publicly documented sighting that clearly established where he had gone or what had happened to him, and his disappearance became the subject of a missing-person investigation.
The surviving public record is unusually sparse regarding Powell’s final movements. Online case references confirm his name, the September 15, 2010 disappearance date, and the connection to Parkland Village and Spruce Grove, but they do not provide a detailed hour-by-hour account of his activities before he vanished. No reliable public source located for this synopsis describes who last spoke with him, the precise location of his final confirmed sighting, what he may have been doing earlier that day, or whether he had discussed plans to travel elsewhere. That absence of detail leaves a significant gap in understanding the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and makes it important not to fill those gaps with assumptions. The RCMP’s national missing-person program explains that cases appearing in Canada’s national system are published at the request of the primary investigating agency and that the amount of information made public varies from one investigation to another.
Powell’s case has nevertheless remained identifiable in historical online records by the same essential facts: David Harrison Powell disappeared in September 2010 from the Parkland Village/Spruce Grove area of Alberta. An archived reference to Canadian missing-person discussions lists his case specifically as “David Harrison Powell” and associates his disappearance with September 15, 2010 and Parkland Village/Spruce Grove. Beyond those basic details, very little of the investigative history has been preserved in publicly accessible reporting. There are no substantial contemporary news accounts available online describing a major search operation, interviews with relatives, possible destinations, confirmed later sightings, or a publicly identified person connected to his disappearance. For those who knew Powell, that lack of publicly available information does not make the disappearance any less significant; it simply means much of what investigators or family members may have known was never widely published.
More than a decade after David Harrison Powell disappeared, the publicly documented story remains centered on one troubling moment in time: a 62-year-old man was last known to be in the Spruce Grove and Parkland Village area on September 15, 2010, and the available online record provides few details about what happened next. No responsible reconstruction can go beyond the confirmed information without risking turning speculation into fact. The case therefore stands as one of Alberta’s lesser-publicized disappearances, preserved largely through missing-person records rather than extensive newspaper coverage. In overview, Powell’s disappearance began with his last known presence near Spruce Grove in September 2010, developed into a missing-person investigation under the Parkland-area authorities, and has left behind a remarkably limited public record, with the central question of what happened after his final known day remaining the defining mystery of the case.Last Seen: Sep 15, 2010
