My sister Kelly O’Byrne was her friend as well…she remembers her well and remembers that day too

Hello Ingrid
I’m not sure you would remember me as I was just a toddler but my sister Charmeyn and my brother Scot remember Tanya very well. My parents Shelagh and Lance Sinclaire told me the story many times. They have both passed away years ago. I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m sure my sister especially would love to hear from you.

Thinking about Tanya brings back a lot of memories, and speaking with my brother, who because of Tanya’s abduction, became a Search & Rescue volunteer, he said my father’s friendship with Tanya’s father was more likely through the prison guard training they both took as my father actually worked at Ocalla and not B.C. Pen. I remember my birthday parties and Tanya was among the neighborhood children that attended, I’m still trying to get an old photo of a party with Tanya, that’s still etched on my brain, as my Uncle took my mother’s collection of photo’s after she passed away. I remember her mother was also at my birthday parties, and came to me the day of Tanya’s abduction as I was the “Friend” who walked her to school that day, it still haunts me and often times I feel that if we hadn’t separated that day she would still be here ( we lived a block away), I was in my Gym class in the old gravel playing field as we were practicing for Sports Day, she was a tall lady. It may have been 50 years ago, I was 11 then, but I remember as if it was just yesterday. My mother was also friend’s with Tanya’s mother, probably because we lived so close as I recall her coming to our house, and I used to babysit Tanya when I was in Brownies getting my Babysitter Badge, I think Tanya may have also gone to Brownie’s with me. My parents lost touch with the Tanya’s parents and they thought that they may have moved back to Germany, and after both my grandparents passed away the summer of the year Tanya was taken my parents moved us from Vancouver. Through Eve’s book I have come to learn her brother and Parent’s are still here, her father may have passed on recently. After my family moved away I was broken, and would often sit in my room and cry, and there was this song that came out that year, 1972, that I would listen to, and it’s hard to listen to, it was called “Season’s in the Sun” by Terry Jacks, and it reminds me of Tanya every time I hear it. I always think of Tanya as my guardian angel and a guardian angel to other missing children…….I’m crying right now as I write this

I don’t recall you walking with me and Tanya to school that day, I walked her to school that day. Tanya’s parents were friends of my parents, my father was also a prison guard at B.C. Pen, not at the same time as Tanya’s father, we lived just a block away and went to school every day, I didn’t even know her abducter was caught until I got a copy of Eve’s book, I was 11 years old at the time, my brother was friends with Ralphie as they were both the same age

My sister and I remember her well. We went to school with her too. I’m glad she was not forgotten-we always think about her and talk about that day.

Hello I was the friend that walked to school and went to swings with her she has always been with me in my heart and soul always miss my friend

Wow, that’s a big statement. I hope this was eventually reported to the Police even decades later. If you send me the name of your girlfriend from 1957 I can most likely find out her Uncle’s name pretty quickly. Send me an email to swocanada@protonmail.com.