ID of missing St. Catharines woman found in B.C.

The family of a missing St. Catharines woman is speaking out after her driver’s licence was discovered in British Columbia.

This is the first piece of physical evidence connected to Ashley Simpson since she disappeared more than two years ago.

Simpson’s driver’s licence was found at the Sasquatch Crossing Lodge in Pink Mountain, BC. Over 1,200 kilometres north of where she first vanished from in April of 2016 near Salmon Arm, BC.

For John Simpson, the discovery of his missing daughter’s ID, provides more questions than answers. “I know pink mountain very well, I know the Sasquatch, the Buffalo Inn…I just can’t fathom how that driver’s license got there.”

At the time, the St. Catharines woman had been living there with her boyfriend Derek Favell. She previously worked at The Sasquatch, it’s also where she met Favell.

Simpson is one of five women who have disappeared in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley during a two-year period.

This discovery of Simpson’s ID provides renewed hope that closure may follow for her family.