A search has been called off for the night after an overturned canoe was spotted in Blind Channel near Squamish.
Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre's Captain Eric Niemi says the RCMP have now opened a missing persons file.
The search will resume Tuesday morning, "The RCMP have told us their intention is to have a dive team from the Lower Mainland on scene and do a dive of the area where the canoe was capsized, because that is what our feeling is most likely to be the spot where you find him."
RCMP Marine Units, a helicopter, and Coast Guard volunteers scoured the area after the overturned canoe was spotted.
Neimi says just before seven Monday evening a woman saw the man in the canoe, and looked back a minute later to see the overturned canoe and no occupant.