Are you related to this historic missing B.C. man?

SMITHERS, B.C. — Police in the province are hoping new leads could help with a decades-long missing person investigation.

Gerard Krausnig was from Smithers, B.C., and he was reported missing after a boating mishap while fishing the Nass River in northern B.C., near the Meziadin River junction on July 2, 1977.

“Missing person’s files are never concluded, until the missing is located, no matter how long it takes,” says Stewart RCMP Cpl. Kevin Wright in a news release. “We are attempting to locate any of Mr. Krausnig’s family members, and believe that he may have had a son born in 1977, in Smithers.”

In the event human remains are recovered, and the investigators have DNA from family members on file, it’s a way to identify missing persons.