Summary based on the NamUs case record (can2014005597) and
1 other sourceAndre Rosaire Benoit was a 77-year-old man who disappeared from Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, Quebec, on October 1, 2010. Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson is a community in Quebec’s Laurentides region, within the Les Pays-d’en-Haut area. The publicly available record identifies Benoit as male and records October 1, 2010, as the date of his disappearance. Beyond those basic facts, however, very little about the final known period of his day has been made available online.
There is no detailed public account describing precisely where in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson he was last seen, what he had been doing beforehand, whether he was expected to return somewhere, or whether he had been traveling on foot or in a vehicle. That lack of detail leaves the beginning of his disappearance marked by the same troubling uncertainty that has followed the case for years: an elderly man was present in the community, and then his whereabouts became unknown.
Years after Benoit vanished, his name continued to appear in research concerning Quebec’s long-term missing-person cases. A 2023 submission to Quebec’s National Assembly examined how missing adults were publicly listed by police agencies and national databases. In a table cataloguing 135 adults whose disappearances were publicly documented, “Benoît André Rosaire” appears as a male with a disappearance date of October 1, 2010. The document shows his case as having been listed on the federal Disparus-Canada database operated through the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains. Unlike many entries in the same table, Benoit’s row does not provide an age or additional location information, demonstrating how little of his case had entered the broader public record even more than a decade after he disappeared. The fact that his name was still being included in this survey of Quebec missing-person cases in 2023 underscores how enduring the absence had become and how few answers were publicly available to explain what happened.
The national missing-person system on which Benoit was listed exists to assist law-enforcement agencies, coroners, and medical examiners with missing-person and unidentified-remains investigations across Canada. The RCMP explains that cases appearing publicly on Disparus-Canada are published at the request of the primary investigator, and that the investigating agency determines whether and when a profile is made public. The national website is not intended to contain every missing-person investigation in the country, which makes the presence of Benoit’s case there significant as an official effort to keep his identity visible beyond the community where he disappeared. At the same time, the publicly searchable material concerning Benoit does not provide a detailed reconstruction of investigative activity. No reliable public account located for his case describes witnesses to his disappearance, search locations, clothing, belongings, a vehicle, a destination, physical evidence, or circumstances suggesting why he might have vanished. There are likewise no publicly documented suspects or allegations connected to his disappearance in the available sources.
What remains is a remarkably sparse but deeply human record. Andre Rosaire Benoit was an older man whose disappearance began in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson on October 1, 2010, and whose name ultimately became part of Canada’s national missing-person records. The passage of time has not produced a detailed public explanation of his movements immediately before he vanished, and the online record offers none of the ordinary details that might otherwise help reconstruct a person's final known hours. His case therefore stands largely on a few confirmed facts: his identity, his gender, the community associated with his disappearance, and the date on which he was last known to be present. For those who knew him, those simple entries represent far more than a line in a database—they represent a person whose absence left unanswered questions behind. In overview, Andre Rosaire Benoit disappeared at age 77 from Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson in October 2010, his case was subsequently carried on Canada’s national missing-person system and was still being documented among Quebec missing adults years later, while the circumstances surrounding how and why he disappeared remain largely absent from the public record.Last Seen: Oct 1, 2010
