A woman who has been missing with her son for nearly two weeks is among three people nominated for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

Dawn Dumont Walker was last seen in Saskatoon with her seven-year-old son Vincent on July 22nd. She was reported missing to Saskatoon Police, Sunday, July 24th and the next day her truck was found at Chief Whitecap Park, abandoned.   Her purse had been found in the same area on Saturday and turned in to RCMP.

The book she was nominated for is “The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour” and it was published under the name Dawn Dumont. Dawn Dumont Walker is the Executive Operating Officer for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and at a news conference Tuesday the FSIN announced if nothing had turned up in a couple days they would put up a reward for information leading to return of the 48 year old mother and her 7 year old son.

The RCMP along with other search organizations have been searching Chief Whitecap Park and the river from the park to the weir, and are now expanding the river search further downstream past the weir. Saskatoon Police are tracking where Dawn and her son were, leading up to them going missing, and going through phone records, banking records along with talking to anyone who had contact with her.

Stephen Leacock Associates says it learned of Dumont Walker’s disappearance on Wednesday morning, the same day it announced nominees for this year’s prize.