Chris Lowrey
SHAWVILLE Aug. 23, 2017
A bright yellow snowmobile was stolen from a driveway on King Street in Shawville in early August.
The Ski-doo was taken from the former home of Tamara Walton and her boyfriend after the couple moved into Gatineau.
Walton thinks the theft occurred sometime around Aug. 6.
The couple moved in early July and left the Ski-doo in the laneway until they could pick it up.

After the move, Walton said her mom checked on the Ski-doo regularly to make sure it hadn’t gone anywhere.
After getting things settled in Gatineau, Walton came back to Shawville to pick up the last few items she had left behind when she saw that the Ski-doo was gone.
“Apparently it just vanished,” Walton said. “No neighbours saw anything, of all the people that live down the road that I know, nobody saw anything.”
“A Ski-doo is really, really big,” she said. “There are no keys. It would have taken at least three people, maybe more. Even if they wanted to put it on a trailer, it would have been hard to do.”
Although she doesn’t have any concrete leads, Walton said she did see an ad on a Ski-doo site for sled parts that looked identical to the ones from her missing sled.
“This guy was parting-out a Ski-doo that looked just like [ours],” she said.
Walton said she sent him a message asking what year the Ski-doo was, but she never heard back.
“He never replied,” she said. “So I’m thinking maybe he checked my Facebook [profile] and saw that I had posted about the Ski-doo.”
Walton said the ad for the Ski-doo came from Orleans, which is in the East end of the Ottawa area.
She estimates that the sled could sell for as much as $2,000.
Walton hasn’t yet made a police report in the hopes that she is able to track her sled down. But she says it is probably time to do so.
Regardless, she’s hopeful someone will see something and point her in the right direction.
Not to mention the fact that if the perpetrator decides to sell or fix the machine, it will raise eyebrows immediately.
“It has no ownership,” she said. “Unless they went and bought a new key for it even without the ownership, it would seem pretty sketchy.”