I think it's very unusual that she needed to use a jerry can given that she was no more than 20 minutes from a gas station at any time. There's really no explanation for a 22 year old who drove across Canada to unexpectedly run out of gas on a 30 mile highway.
My thoughts exactly. Someone who is otherwise seemingly prepared and experienced who travelled that far suddenly has car trouble?
Yah, but IDK about that if she was near Canoa Farm why wouldn't she go ask for help there. If she came off the highway wouldn't she the tourist information signs on the highway as she's driving by them. Jaquie is pretty sophisticated when using technology so she would know what civilization was nearby and she could always go ask them for help. Specifically I mean she would see where she was and what was around before heading to the location. So she I'm sure she'd know that Canoa Farm was there.
The operator of the canoa farm has been working with SAR all week and has Informed everyone who attended the show and asked for information.
I can only imagine she wanted to just wait it out in the van that night/early am? Alot of the properties are set pretty far back from the highway, and would seem maybe a bit dodgy to her to go knocking in the dark for help? Canoa farm mostly just looks like alot of the other farms when you're driving by to be honest, especially at night. But there are a couple properties within walking distance of where she broke down.
These are good questions. I just thought of a posibility due to your questions. If for example she decided to leave the yoga retreat because she didn't like the acivities and her phone was on during the time she handed it in to them. Maybe she forgot to turn it off when she handed it to them then her van unknown to her was starting to have problems and wasn't charging her electronics so she wasn't able to communicate with anyone. Otherwise if she knew she would have told her family & friends that her electronics were losing there charge. Maybe she didn't notice until later on. That may explain that maybe it was sooner than later her van was having mechanical issues until it finally broke down. Is it possible that she was at the yoga retreat on the 29th and she decided she wanted to leave and unknown to her or she didn't realize what was happening to her electronics?
Good point. I assumed she had enough gas. She is a sophisticated traveller so she would keep this in mind. Maybe someone siphoned her gas near the Canoa Farm.
Yes in the dark I'm sure she wouldn't. But from what I understand Canoa Farm seems pretty well known, so I was thinking maybe the municipality would advertise it on those blue highway signs B&B etc. kinds of signs. Regardless though of the signs in my imagination Jaquie seems a sophisticated traveller so she would know what was around beforehand. I mean myself I of course don't care for yoga exercises but many people do so I wouldn't look for it but I may look to see what I could utilize in the area. IMO the retreat actually is kind of interesting because one can go if they please and spend some time enjoying the property. So I think that is a unique way of doing things inexpensively yet still getting something out of it that's what I mean by saavy and sophisticated. But unfortunately if one runs into issues with transportation in a desolate setting it can bring on so many diffferent outcomes regardless of how saavy one is. But as I was saying originally IMO she would know about Canoa Farm. I know if I was doing her unique lifestyle she was doing I would just for the sake of safety and civilization. She's out there to enjoy not have unexpected problems, she'd be prepared somehow.
To the best of my knowledge canoa farms is an independent horse breeder that I've never seen signs for. I think they occasionally do activities there? Ive seen an advertisement for some kind of pottery paint night there at one point on the local merritt fb page but thats about it. They were apparently having some kind of horse show/mountain course/ contest last weekend so it may have looked like some kind of event was happening?
Right, agree. One thing though someone posted a review about the Vipassana centre retreat in Washington State, the woman who wrote the review didn't like it either but it is lenient in what one can do in their room like sleep later than he time staed getting up at 4:00AM. This reviewer said she slept until 9:00AM. So it is rigid but can be lenient also. But of course I don't think the retreat management would want to stray too much, though so, as a temporary measure maybe one could utilize some benefit. But of course the individual would have to know how to do so. Since I'm not familiar I can't say but perhaps Jacqui is. So IMO that is saavy but I know if I was to do it it would look obvious and I would probably not be able to get away with it, but someone with her knowledge could.
If Jaqui was headed to the retreat on Sep 30 wouldn't she have given her parents a heads up that she would would be out of communication for at least several days? Why were they worried on Oct 1?
The gas issue came up because locals reported seeing her at her van on the side of the road with a jerrycan on the morning of 10/1.
Yes, I understood that. But, some people were indicating when the van was found, it was out of gas. However, it seems to me it wasn’t a gas issue but something mechanically wrong with the van. jmo
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Hello everyone- I am from BC and live in BC so this story is hitting close to home. It's so difficult when people go missing without a trace because the territory is just so vast here that it makes things so difficult.
I was wondering if the reason Jacqueline was seen putting gas from the jerry can in her van (even though there were gas stations near by) is because when the van broke down, she was just trying anything she could to get it working again (and thought maybe the gas gauge was broken, and tried putting gas to see). Anyway, just a thought. It's been helpful reading everyones comments here, but hard because we have such little information.
I am wondering if it was the same spot where she was seen using the jerrycan, that the van was found abandoned. The info seems conflicting or maybe it’s just me.
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Hello everyone- I am from BC and live in BC so this story is hitting close to home. It's so difficult when people go missing without a trace because the territory is just so vast here that it makes things so difficult.
I was wondering if the reason Jacqueline was seen putting gas from the jerry can in her van (even though there were gas stations near by) is because when the van broke down, she was just trying anything she could to get it working again (and thought maybe the gas gauge was broken, and tried putting gas to see). Anyway, just a thought. It's been helpful reading everyones comments here, but hard because we have such little information.
There aren't any specifics so we all keep guessing based on generic information.
That's a great point!
