Family of missing 76-year-old renews pleas for public’s help in finding him

Family members are appealing for any information that will help reunite them with a 76-year-old man who has been missing for almost a month.

Antonio Madeira was last seen between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on July 12 in the area of Winona Drive and Mulberry Crescent, near Bathurst Street and St. Clair Avenue West.

The man’s son, Michael, said his father might have onset dementia, but he hasn’t been diagnosed.

“It seems as if, for some reason, he’s not been seen anywhere that you would think he would be,” said William Bolton, a senior trainer for Advanced Technical Training Search and Rescue which has been helping the family in the search. He says while they have scoured the local area, they still believe he has not wandered too far from where he went missing.

“The chances are he could be walking around in circles. He’s obviously lost, so we’re trying to keep it to a local proximity of just a few kilometres from his house.”

Bolton adds they plan to expand the search into the downtown area as well.

“Someone like this is going to stick out in a location where they’ve not usually been.”

Madeira is described as five feet five inches tall, 150 pounds and with a thin build. He has a tanned complexion, hazel eyes, balding short white hair, and a full white beard.

He was last seen possibly wearing a dark or black jacket, light khaki pants, white or light colour shoes, and a baseball hat.

The family told CityNews that Madeira used to work in construction and appealed to those working in the industry to be on the lookout for him since he would occasionally walk by local sites to see what they were working on.