Search to resume for children almost a month after they disappeared from N.S. home

By Canadian Press on May 30, 2025.

LANSDOWNE STATION — A search for two young children who went missing almost a month ago is set to resume Saturday in a remote corner of northeastern Nova Scotia.

On May 2, four-year-old Jack Sullivan and his six-year-old sister Lilly Sullivan were reported missing from their home in rural Lansdowne Station, a heavily wooded area about 140 kilometres northeast of Halifax.

The initial, large-scale search-and-rescue effort was scaled back on May 7, and the search this weekend marks the second time ground search teams have been asked to return to focus on specific areas.

The RCMP issued a statement Friday afternoon saying the latest search will be in the Gairloch Road area — near where the children lived — and a nearby “pipeline trail,” where a small boot print was previously found.

When the first search ended on May 7, RCMP officers said they did not expect to find the children alive in the surrounding woods, but they said searching would resume if they received fresh information.

Investigators have also confirmed the RCMP’s major crimes unit has been involved in the case since May 3.