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Mont Tremblant is one of Quebec\u2019s top tourist destinations. (Michel Picard\/Radio-Canada)<\/p>\nAlmost once a month for almost a year, Kathleen Toman has left her home in Balsam Lake, Ont., for Mont-Tremblant, Que. This weekend, she\u2019ll make the 500-kilometre trip again, meeting her ex-husband, Chris Toman, there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Together, they\u2019ll try again to find anyone or anything that could help locate their son, Liam.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything that would’ve happened might be a small clue,\u201d Kathleen said in an interview. A selfie, an awkward encounter, a bit of small talk \u2014 no detail is too small.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time I do go back, however, I find out a little bit more information about something. Every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n
And yet, so far, nothing explains how her son, Liam Gabriel Toman, vanished from the ski resort in the early hours of Feb. 2, 2025. <\/p>\n
On Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, Liam, 22, and two friends, Kyle Lemmings and Colin Warnock, hit the road for a long-anticipated ski weekend. As they rounded the last bend before Tremblant, the five-hour drive from Whitby, Ont., paid off.<\/p>\n
Mont Tremblant is one of Quebec\u2019s top tourist destinations. (Michel Picard\/Radio-Canada)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just opens up, and then there’s the hill with all the cabins on the side of it, and then the mountain just goes up,\u201d Lemmings told Radio-Canada\u2019s Enqu\u00eate. \u201cIt’s a pretty big eye shock for us because we don’t see something like that very often.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
They checked into their hotel, the Tour des Voyageurs II, and eased into their holiday.<\/p>\n
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Liam Toman, right, skiing at Tremblant on Feb. 1, 2025. (Submitted by the Toman family)<\/p>\n
Saturday unfolded as planned \u2014 a day on the slopes, a pizza dinner and a few drinks at a bar called Lucille\u2019s. By then, it was freezing out, around \u201325 C. Just after 11 p.m., Lemmings retreated to the warmth of the room, leaving the other two to join clubgoers at Le P\u2019tit Caribou.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a couple of more drinks and then kind of split up inside,\u201d Warnock told Enqu\u00eate. Shortly after 2 a.m., as the club began to empty, Warnock texted Liam. When he didn\u2019t hear back, he called it a night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Video footage from Mont Tremblant bar<\/p>\n
Liam Toman shot video at Le P\u2019tit Caribou hours before he went missing.
\n\u201820 calls later\u2019<\/p>\n
Liam didn\u2019t return to the room that night. His friends assumed he\u2019d crashed elsewhere, but still concerned, they pinged him again and took to the hill Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called once every hour,\u201d said Warnock. \u201cAnd then after a couple hours, I was calling him twice an hour. And I started calling him three times an hour, and 20 calls later, we’re, like: \u2018OK, maybe \u2026 something is up, for sure.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
By day\u2019s end, they raised the alarm, contacting Liam\u2019s family and the authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Watch the full documentary, \u201cVanished,\u201d from the fifth estate on YouTube<\/a> or CBC-TV on Friday at 9 p.m.<\/a><\/p>\n Liam\u2019s father, Chris Toman, remembers getting the call just before 6 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI said, ‘We need to talk to the police. We need to talk to the resort. Like, you know, we don’t know where he is?’\u201d he told Enqu\u00eate.<\/p>\n A storm closed in as Chris, his wife Lara Toman, and Kathleen drove through the night and the snow to Tremblant.<\/p>\n \u201cI couldn’t believe how fast, but how long it felt as well,\u201d Lara told Enqu\u00eate.<\/p>\n \u2018You cannot rest\u2019<\/p>\n In February, the Quebec provincial police, the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (SQ), searched for Liam for 12 days \u2014 on foot and horseback, by ATV and snowmobile, with dogs and from helicopters overhead.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe helicopter was flying so low, it was almost in my living room,\u201d Mont-Tremblant resident Sylvie Blais told Enqu\u00eate. Like many in the area, she felt compelled to help once she heard about Liam\u2019s disappearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yves Delvallet, owner of Mont-Tremblant Cruises, turned his daily dog walks into a months-long, systematic search for Liam.<\/p>\n Liam\u2019s mother was touched by the community support.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt gives you \u2014 I know it\u2019s like a cliche \u2014 but \u2026 faith in humanity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n In March, a resort employee found Liam\u2019s wallet near one of the parking lots. The discovery was significant enough that the SQ renewed its search.<\/p>\n Nothing.<\/p>\n After the snow melted, police combed the area one more time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Still nothing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n With so few answers and her son still missing, Kathleen hit an impasse.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you’re in this situation, you don’t know what you need to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou’re not an investigator. You’re not the police. You give all your hands to the police, you trust they know everything. So you just want to \u2026 you have to do something. You can’t sit still.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to keep going and pushing to find any means to solve this because it’s such a mystery. It does not make sense. None of the pieces make sense in your mind. You cannot rest.\u201d<\/p>\n So she didn\u2019t. And hasn\u2019t since.\u00a0<\/p>\n Within days of Liam\u2019s disappearance, the Tomans began getting the word out. One of his childhood friends, Shireen Khamissa, took charge of social media. She approached the resort about sharing her posts and was surprised when they initially declined.\u00a0<\/p>\n Khamissa and the Tomans were disappointed and didn\u2019t give up with the resort. But there were other fronts to work on, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n They started making media contacts. They agreed to interviews, for the press, for television. They returned to Tremblant and made their own inquiries.<\/p>\n \u201cI have books of notes from the beginning of the investigation,\u201d Kathleen said. \u201cAlso, Chris and I have PowerPoints of our collaborative notes. So yeah, we’ve become, together, investigators of our own.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Then, Kathleen discovered Radio-Canada\u2019s investigative journalism program, Enqu\u00eate. She contacted host Marie-Maude Denis and within days, they were retracing Liam\u2019s last-known steps at Tremblant together.\u00a0<\/p>\n The SQ met with the Enqu\u00eate team to brief them on the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhen doing an investigation about missing persons, everything is on the table,\u201d a spokesperson from the SQ said in an interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n Together, the Enqu\u00eate team and the Tomans tracked down several of the last people who had seen Liam that night. They spoke with merchants and residents and gathered images from security cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n A clear picture<\/p>\n In September, the SQ shared some surveillance footage. Edited together with the clips Kathleen had collected, the footage shows a clear picture of Liam\u2019s movements after he left Le P\u2019tit Caribou.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n WATCH | Surveillance video from Mont Tremblant: Walking through Mont Tremblant village<\/p>\n Surveillance video shows Liam Toman after he left a bar at the Mont Tremblant ski resort.<\/p>\n After Enqu\u00eate\u2019s report aired in November 2025, the SQ received tips they followed up on. None led to information that helped locate Liam.\u00a0<\/p>\n A $10,000 reward offered for information leading to Liam\u2019s whereabouts was also increased to $50,000 following Enqu\u00eate\u2019s report. That, too, has yet to generate new leads.\u00a0<\/p>\n The ski resort also changed its position. Tremblant representatives met with the Tomans and launched a new awareness campaign across the resort.<\/p>\n The SQ\u2019s investigation is ongoing. It has yet to determine whether a criminal motive is involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a disappearance that\u2019s pretty rare,\u201d said the SQ\u2019s spokesperson, citing the lack of clear evidence explaining why Liam is missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important for the public to think the unthinkable. Any shred of information can be crucial.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018We’ll have to keep going for Liam\u2019<\/p>\n While the investigation gives Liam\u2019s mother purpose, it also comes at a cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou spend so many days busy and doing and co-ordinating,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then there’s days where you’re just crawled up in a ball and not moving.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then you go: \u2018My gosh, we’ll have to keep going for Liam. Liam wouldn’t want to see me like this. Oh my gosh, he’d want me to keep fighting and keep going and looking and investigating. So then you focus, you focus on the fact of what you’re doing, you get up and go.\u201d<\/p>\n And so, with the resort now collaborating, they\u2019re going back to Tremblant to raise awareness that their son is missing. They\u2019ll also be having meetings with the resort, the police and the municipality.<\/p>\n Kathleen said each of these visits takes its toll, compounded this time by the approaching anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOne year \u2014 it’s not something you want to celebrate. It’s not something you want to acknowledge, that it is actually one year. But, you do want to, for Liam. You want to say \u2018this has been too long. This is a year. What is, where is he, what’s going on?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n SQ investigators will be in Mont-Tremblant village on Jan. 31 to meet anyone who has information to share.\u00a0<\/p>\n Living with so many loose ends and no sign of her son leaves Liam\u2019s mother feeling unmoored.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can’t explain that to anybody, what it’s like living without an answer. You can\u2019t even explain it to yourself. So how can you explain it to anybody else?\u201d<\/p>\n But of one thing she\u2019s sure.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are just at a loss. This is what it’s done to our family: we’re at a complete loss.\u201d<\/p>\n The S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec is asking anyone who may have seen Liam Toman or has details that could help investigators to contact the SQ\u2019s information line at 1-800-659-4264.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost once a month for almost a year, Kathleen Toman has left her home in Balsam Lake, Ont.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-413145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768567990_844_default.jpg\")
A map of the ground covered by the SQ in their 12-day search for Liam Toman. The colours trace the paths of each search. (S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768567990_193_default.jpg\")
Kathleen Toman during one of her visits to Mont Tremblant in the summer of 2025. (Shireen Khamissa)Accidental investigators<\/p>\n![\"Four](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768567991_902_default.jpg\")
The Tomans, from left, Lara, Chris, Liam\u2019s sister Kate and Kathleen, get the word out at Tremblant in July 2025. (Radio-Canada)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768567991_708_default.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![\"Pamphlets](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768567991_617_default.jpg\")
Some of the pamphlets and bracelets the Tomans take to their pop-up kiosks at Mont Tremblant. (Submitted by the Toman family)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768567992_159_default.jpg\")
Kathleen Toman insists that the only way she can deal with the situation is by sticking to the facts. (Marie-Maude Denis\/Radio-Canada)<\/p>\n