No significant news.

We found out through former hotel employees and a survivor who stayed at the Hotel Montana that Katie's room may have been on the top floor in the hotel (3 to 5 floors, depending on where you are in the hotel). This is important and very good news, because someone might actually be able to get to her relatively easily, and possibly hear her cell phone ring. Kim Stephenson is calling Katie's cell phone every 20 minutes, and when she gets tired, someone else will take over. Please don't call randomly, we want to avoid that we drain the battery. Cell coverage is hit and miss in Port-au-Prince, so we don't know if the calls are actually getting through; however, at least sometimes, we can get a ring tone.

Today we heard directly from the DFAIT person who was sent to Haiti the day before yesterday. He finally arrived yesterday afternoon and headed to the site earlier today. He couldn't really report very much, but he confirmed that today, US and French rescue teams were working there. He also relayed that the roads are clogged with rescue vehicles, and that the city is still in general chaos. It's not getting easier, unfortunately.

A very active Facebook website is displaying a lot of support for Katie and her friends & family. It is called "Help Find Katie" and has been organized by Katie's friend Shaunsy. Thanks, Shaunsy, this is tremendous support for everyone and hopefully it'll make the decisive difference for Katie. If you want to follow the effort for Katie and/or express your support, please go to that Facebook site. Another more general Facebook site is called "Haiti Earthquake Hotel Montana". We have also posted my email updates on our website.

We have encouraged Facebook followers to email / contact Canadian ministers (Lawrence Cannon of DFAIT and Peter MacKay, DND) and other federal politicians (Mackap@parl.gc.ca, Cannon.L@parl.gc.ca). Katie's cousin Melissa Hadley is contacting Justine Trudeau. We need to make some noise to encourage them to keep the rescue effort going before they switch to a recovery operation. It can't hurt. Overall, at least 10 Canadians are known to be missing at the Hotel Montana, mostly engineers and government workers. One person is from Tecsult and apparently was on the phone with a colleague in Canada when the quake struck, then the line went down. Here is the list of Canadians we know about, in no particular order:

1) of course there's our Katie Hadley, engineer from Ottawa, 30 yrs, checked into a junior executive room (room No. unknown). Last heard from 45 minutes before the earthquake via email, likely from her room. Junior suites are on the top floor. She was there on business for DFAIT. Her Haiti phone No, is 509-3465-0013.

2) Serge Marcil, former MP (news about his rescue were incorrect, he is still missing) from Montreal. (65 years old). He was probably on the 5th floor in room 506. He is 5'10'' tall and weights 220 lbs. He has very short gray hair. At the time of the event, he was wearing beige pants and a short sleeved brown and beige checkered shirt

3) Roger Gosselin, from Montreal, University Professor.

4 & 5) Anne Labelle and Ann Chabot from ServiceQuebec, Information Technology experts; they were there to do some consulting & technology transfer to the Haitian government. Anne Labelle's Haiti cell phone is: 011-509-3493-9610

6) Alexandre Bitton, 37 yrs old, 6' tall; 250 lb; Short dark hair; dark eyes; scars under each armpit; Last known location was either the lobby, his room (# unknown), or in direction of the pool bar of the Montana hotel; was possibly wearing a grey t-shirt and blue jeans or orange shorts.

7 & 8) Claude Chamberland and Paquerette Tremblay, Hometown: Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Que., Age: Both 65: Chamberland was to do some consulting work for CIDA, inspecting schools.

9)Trân Triêu Quân, Hometown: Quebec City, Civil Engineer (to provide consulting on building codes), President of International Taek-won-do Association, believed to be in room 306

10) Richard Prateau, Hometown: Varennes, Que., Age: 65, engineer from Tecsult, was on the phone from the hotel with a colleague in Canada when the earthquake struck.

Let's keep our hopes up for all of them.

Sincerely,
Thomas Franz, M.Sc., P.Geo.
President
Franz Environmental Inc.