Dryden

Uh, first of all, I just think it's crazy how vast Canada is, and you can road trip forever and still be in the same province, especially Ontario.

I talk about going from Dryden, the very northwest part of Ontario, all the way down to the most southern part, where I went to school in London, and that's like 20-plus hours.

Or you could do that across several provinces [laughs] going to, in the prairies.

So it just, the, how vast it is.

Yep.

What John is referring to is the fact that some areas of western and northern Ontario, including Kenora, Thunder Bay, Dryden, Fort Frances.

Oh, I could list a dozen more.

Because that used to be my turf back in the early 1970s.

And as we wander around, we keep finding people we could talk to.

And I found Trey Wasser, who is the chairman of the board for Dryden Gold.

Welcome, Trey.

Thanks, Michael.

And there's a lot happening in different parts of that property.

Before we get going too far, for those that aren't familiar with you, let's give them the quick overview.

Well, Dryden Gold has a 90,000-hectare and growing property in northwest Ontario.

It's one contiguous property, although it has what we would consider probably three or four already different projects.

There was a brief detour near Brandon, Manitoba, but nothing that raised any concern.

By June 12th, they had reached Dryden, Ontario.

From there, they mailed a postcard.

After Dryden, there was nothing.

They never made it to the wedding in Montreal.

When the couple failed to arrive in the East, concern quickly turned into panic.

There was also speculation that they may have taken a southern road through the United States, but there are no records confirming that they crossed the border.

And so the mystery remains.

Members say studies show poisoning can affect the brain, internal organs, can cause depression, tremors, and more autism and ADHD in young people.

They say an active Northern Ontario mill in Dryden 150 kilometers away is making the mercury in the water worse, and it's time the federal and provincial governments take action.

Why don't they compensate us? Why don't they shut down the Dryden mill? Because, you know, we've lost so many people, and we're still continuing to lose people.

This mass sit-in on Bay Street is along the route to Queen's Park.

The location is significant.

We fought for the, um, mercury disability reform, and we got it.

She says funding has also been secured to start studies to clean the water.

With support like this, she can't help but stay positive shutting down the Dryden mill and compensation will follow.

They got driving and everything went fine at first, including a quick stop near Brandon, Manitoba.

On June twelfth, they made it to Dryden, Ontario, and dropped a postcard in the mail.

Past Dryden, they just vanished.

They never showed up at the Montreal wedding.

Worry quickly snowballed into panic when weeks passed with no sign of them.

Border logs don't show anything though.

Decades later, we still don't know.

The drive between Dryden and Montreal cuts through some massive empty spaces where a car could stay hidden forever.