CANADA Saskatchewan - June Pauline Stevens, 18, Cadillac, July 14, 1948

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4353DFSK - June Pauline Stevens

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Name: June Pauline Stevens
Case Classification: Juvenile Missing
Missing Since: July 14, 1948
Location Last Seen: Cadillac, Saskatchewan, Canada

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: July 8, 1930
Age: 18 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5"4"
Weight: 119 lbs
Hair Color: Brown Shoulder length and curly
Eye Color: Blue
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Brown birthmark on arm. Psoriasis on body. Rheumatoid Arthritis

Identifiers​

Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available

Circumstances of Disappearance​

June's mother Anna Stevens was living in Port Alberni, British Columbia. June lived in Cadillac with her Father Leonard Stevens and Brother Lawrence in their family home. June was said to be pregnant and her mother Anna made the trip to Cadillac and picked up June to take her back to Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. On October 29, 1948, a letter Leonard wrote to Anna saying June went East. It is unknown if June made it to Port Alberni or where she ended up. This is the last contact with her.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: F Division RCMP Historical Missing Persons in Regina, Saskatchewan
Agency Contact Person: Constable Brendan Sanford
Agency Phone Number: 639-625-3167
Agency E-Mail: Brendan.Sanford@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Agency Case Number: 2016-1579907 Canada's Missing 2017-023444

NCIC Case Number: None
NamUs Case Number: None

Information Source(s)​

Family Member

 

[cenazoic]

RCMP Missing

Relative’s FB post on Canada’s Missing Persons

 

[Diane Redfern]

June was born in Cadillac, Saskatchewan to Leonard Etienne Stevens and Anna Oleksuk. June was known to play baseball and worked as a babysitter.
It is suspected June went to Port Alberni, British Columbia to be with her mother or Winnipeg, Manitoba to be with relatives. According to a relative who found old letters, one of the letters claimed June was at the Winnipeg Salvation Army Hospital at one point. Other letters claimed June might've possibly gone to Toronto, Ontario. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have also considered the possibility that June might've gone to the United States.
Several months after June was last seen, her family home burnt down and a couple of family members left the area. Due to this and the limited form of communication, June's family lost all contact with her.

Source: June Stevens

Do they know who was the father of her baby? Maybe they eloped.

However, something more sisnister is suspected by family, as they are using ground-penetrating radar to locate her remains:

UPDATE: Ground-Penetrating Radar Search Conducted for one of Canada’s Oldest Missing Person Cases.
In February 2023, Please Bring Me Home received information about a possible suspect in the disappearance of June Pauline Stevens. This man had lived with June periodically in Cadillac, Saskatchewan before her disappearance in July 1948. In the early 1960s, the man became the primary suspect in the violent 1st-degree murder of a female co-worker in Saskatchewan. The victim went missing from the school where they both worked. Ten years later, she was discovered buried in a two-foot-deep shallow grave at the school. The man admitted to seeing her on the day she disappeared, but vehemently denied murdering her.
Police searched the man’s residence and found items belonging to the victim, but they were not allowed to be introduced in a trial because of provincial evidence legislation. Ultimately, an Agent for the Attorney General advised against bringing the man to trial after conferring with his superiors. The matter was closed despite the murder never being solved, and the evidence box was destroyed in 2012.
Please Bring Me Home has since consulted with experts in criminal psychology, archaeology, and historical research to investigate the man’s connection to June Pauline Stevens. It was decided to search the man’s former property in Cadillac once there were ideal weather conditions. We teamed up with Atlheritage Services, a renowned heritage consulting and cemetery management rm based in Saskatoon, to conduct a ground-penetrating-radar search.
Mike Markowski, the Principal Archaeologist of Atlheritage Services, led the search on the morning of June 9, 2024. He was joined by a small group of June’s relatives and their loved ones, who volunteered to fund the search.
In the coming weeks, Please Bring Me Home will provide an update on the GPR ndings. In the meantime, we ask that you share this post to keep June Pauline Steven’s case in the public eye.

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[Meitsyeah]

Maybe after so many years like the Van Gilder case some light will shine for the family with some answers