On August 2, 2025, 36-year-old Gregory Landry and his companion, Nelson Boudreau, embarked on a fishing trip from Havre-Saint-Pierre, Québec. The two men set out in a 24-foot Dorval boat, heading east with the intention of fishing and making their way to Blanc-Sablon. They had arranged to contact their families upon reaching La Romaine, but that call was never made. Concern grew when they failed to make contact, and they were officially reported missing, prompting a large-scale search and rescue operation that began on the following Tuesday. The two men were residents of Havre-Saint-Pierre, and their disappearance cast a shadow of worry over the close-knit coastal community.
An extensive search was launched by the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) and the Canadian Armed Forces, covering a vast area of water and coastline from Havre-Saint-Pierre to Harrington Harbour and Blanc-Sablon. Multiple vessels, including the NGCC Cap Tourmente, NGCC Cap Aupaluk, NGCC A.
Leblanc, and NGCC Cap Norman, were assigned to the search, alongside three aircraft. Other partners, such as the Sûreté du Québec on land and fishery officers from the community of Nutashkuan, also joined the effort. Despite the intensive search, the only sign of the missing men and their boat was the discovery of gas cans believed to belong to them in the Galibois Islands area. This discovery led search teams to concentrate their efforts between Kegaska and Harrington Harbour.
After days of searching with no further leads, the official search and rescue operation was called off on the evening of August 7, 2025. The Canadian Coast Guard expressed that the difficult decision was made based on several factors, including the low probability of survival in the water and the extensive hours already dedicated to the search. The investigation was then transferred to the Quebec provincial police. Despite the official search ending, the community and the families of the missing men were not ready to give up hope. Members of the Unamen Shipu community and other villages in the Basse-Côte-Nord region organized their own search efforts. Family members and loved ones also participated, chartering a helicopter to scan the coastline. The local Innu community, with their intimate knowledge of the territory, played a significant role in these grassroots searches, demonstrating the solidarity and resilience of the community in the face of this heartbreaking uncertainty. The case of Gregory Landry and Nelson Boudreau remains a painful mystery, a story of a fishing trip that ended in an unsettling silence, leaving a community to grapple with the unknown fate of two of its own.Last Seen: Aug 2, 2025
