Remi Engrand Missing Person Case

Remi Engrand was a 23-year-old man who was last seen on May 19, 1998, in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec. Public missing-person records identify him as male and associate his disappearance with that date, while other online case references place him in Valleyfield at the time. According to an account of the case preserved online, Rémi had been staying for several days at a residence for men in Valleyfield when he went out for a walk with two other residents. Their outing took them to Parc Delpha-Sauvé, a waterfront park in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, where Rémi reportedly wanted to swim in the river near a waterfall. What apparently began as an ordinary walk by three young men would become the last known sequence of events connected to Rémi's disappearance.

The available account states that at some point while the three men were at Parc Delpha-Sauvé, they separated, leaving Rémi by himself near the water. When the other two men later returned to the area, Rémi was gone. His clothing was reportedly found along the shoreline, but Rémi himself was nowhere to be seen. The discovery created an immediate and troubling possibility that he may have entered the water after the others left him, particularly because he had reportedly expressed a desire to go swimming. However, the surviving public information does not establish that anyone actually witnessed Rémi entering the river. That distinction is important: clothing beside the water strongly focused attention on the river, but it did not by itself reveal exactly what happened after Rémi was left alone.

The decades since Rémi vanished have left remarkably little detailed information accessible to the public. A Quebec National Assembly document compiling missing-person cases includes “Engrand Rémi,” identifies him as male, records May 19, 1998 as the date of his disappearance, and notes that his case was represented through the Disparus-Canada missing-person resource. Another independent Canadian missing-person compilation also records Rémi Engrand among people who disappeared in Quebec in May 1998. Yet the publicly searchable record does not provide a detailed chronology of the subsequent investigation, descriptions of specific searches of the river, statements from the two men who accompanied him, or evidence explaining whether investigators were ever able to determine what happened after his clothing was discovered. The scarcity of surviving public documentation makes the case especially difficult to reconstruct and leaves many of the most important questions unanswered.

At the heart of Rémi Engrand's disappearance is a brief sequence of events that has never been adequately explained in the publicly available material: a 23-year-old man staying temporarily at a men's residence went walking with two companions in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, traveled with them to Parc Delpha-Sauvé, spoke of swimming near the river and waterfall, became separated from the others, and vanished. When his companions returned, the clothing left near the shoreline remained, but Rémi did not. There is no publicly documented eyewitness account establishing what happened to him after he was left alone, and the limited information available does not provide enough evidence to determine whether his disappearance resulted from an accident in the water or from circumstances that took him away from the shoreline entirely. In overview, Rémi's case is a long-standing Quebec disappearance built around a small but haunting collection of facts: a young man, a waterfront park, companions who briefly separated from him, clothing found beside the river, and a final unanswered question about what happened during the short period when no one was there to see him.
Last Seen: May 19, 1998

Canada's Missing - RCMP case 2014001428