Missing woman Chelsea Poorman's father on relentless, years-long quest to find her

A Saskatchewan father moved to B.C. when his daughter disappeared. Years later, he still walks the streets of Vancouver searching for signs of Chelsea Poorman.

Every evening, Mike Kiernan walks through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, stopping on Carrall Street directly in front of a large mural of his missing daughter, Chelsea Poorman.

“I have this thing in my mind where I’m going to meet Chelsea there at 5:30,” Kiernan said. “So, hopefully one day she meets me there.”

Originally from Saskatchewan, Poorman came to Vancouver in the summer of 2020.

Just two months later, after a night out with her sister in the Granville Entertainment District, she vanished without a trace in the early hours of Sept. 6.

Since then, her bank account hasn’t been touched and she hasn’t logged on to her social media accounts.

Shortly after Poorman went missing, her dad dropped everything in Saskatoon and drove to Vancouver to find her.

For the first year he lived in his van, but he now has a small apartment.