Raymond Chalifoux from the Amanda Lynn Chalifoux Facebook page.

By Curtis Galbraith

Missing Person

Family still hoping for answers 22 years after the disappearance of Raymond Chalifoux

Dec 20, 2022 | 6:00 AM

The family still wants to know what happened when Raymond Chalifoux went missing 22 years ago.

He was last seen December 19, 2000, in downtown Grande Prairie. He was reported missing a week later.

His granddaughter Amanda Chalifoux remembers she was 13 at the time and living in Vancouver and took time off school to help look for him.

“I know that the last time that he was seen, he was seen at the York Hotel, and then from that point, we’re not really sure if he made it home.”

Chalifoux says the family has not heard anything since.

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“I’ve tried to contact the station and talk to the RCMP there but there’s been nothing. There’s been no extra tips or anything since probably around the time that he went missing.”

Chalifoux says her family just wants to know what happened and is asking anyone who may have information to come forward so they give her grandpa “a proper goodbye.”

“It’s hard. You know, you can grieve someone as much as you lose someone, and you know you lose someone. It’s hard because you know there’s no physical body there to give us that, you know, he’s gone.”

“It’s always a question of where, how, just wanting answers to where he was, where he is.”

Chalifoux says her grandpa had a trap line close to Highway 40 and lived off the land. She adds he did not come into town very often.

She adds he could sing and play the guitar and harmonica, adding that “he was an overall great man.”