Calgary police are asking for help finding Godwin, 10, who was last seen Tuesday afternoon in the northwest community of Capitol Hill.
He was last seen in the 1900 block of 19 Avenue N.W. at about 1:45 p.m.
What he looks like
Godwin is about four feet tall and weighs approximately 47 pounds, with short black curly hair and brown eyes.
He was last seen wearing a grey jumpsuit, olive green pants, an olive green zipper top with black embroidery, and black running shoes.
If you see him
Call Calgary police at 403-266-1234.
The Missing Children's Society of Canada can also be reached at 1-800-661-6160.
Case number CA26350948.
Where to look
Capitol Hill sits between 16 Avenue and Confederation Park, bounded roughly by 10 Street and 19 Street N.W. It's residential, with back alleys running behind most blocks, and it backs onto green space.
Check your own property first. Sheds, garages, back alleys, behind fences, under decks. Children who wander are usually found close to where they went missing, often somewhere an adult wouldn't think to look.
Confederation Park, the golf course and the ravine paths north of the community are the nearest open space. So is the SAIT and Lions Park area to the south, on the other side of 16 Avenue.
If you have a doorbell camera or a dashcam and you were anywhere near Capitol Hill this afternoon, check the footage. Timestamped video is what searches get built on.
Call 403-266-1234 with anything, even if you're not certain. Police would rather check a hundred sightings that come to nothing.
Calgary knows how to do this
Two weeks ago this city put thousands of people on the ground looking for Parker Wells. Volunteers walked more than 8,600 kilometres. People taped bags of Goldfish crackers to a bridge and left handmade cards in the weeds. It didn't end the way anyone wanted, and nobody who took part regrets going.
The most useful thing tonight is smaller than that.
Share the description rather than a screenshot of it, so the details stay searchable and readable, and so people can copy the phone number.
And leave the organized searching to police for now. Volunteers turning up unasked can send crews back over ground already covered, which is why Calgary police coordinated the search for Parker rather than letting it run on its own.
What police have said
Investigators turned to the public after exhausting other avenues to find him.
There are no known medical concerns. Police say the concern is that he is 10 years old and has been missing for several hours, and that officers and his family are worried about his safety and wellbeing.
There is nothing to indicate foul play.
No Amber Alert, but an alert is going out
The case does not meet the threshold for an Amber Alert, which requires evidence of an abduction.
Calgary police say they are working with the Missing Children's Society of Canada to issue an alert through that organization's system instead. MCSC operates a network that pushes alerts about missing children in cases falling outside Amber criteria, reachable at rescu.mcsc.ca.
That gap has been under active debate in Alberta since Parker Wells, the 11-year-old who went missing in northeast Calgary on July 16 and was found dead in a culvert two weeks later. An Amber Alert was issued in his case only on the second day, and only after the province granted a specific exemption.
Last week Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and MP Mike Lake wrote to the federal emergency management minister asking for a national framework allowing public alerts for missing vulnerable children even where abduction isn't suspected. The Missing Children's Society of Canada is one of the organizations their letter named. Premier Danielle Smith has said Alberta will look this fall at letting local police issue alerts directly.
Sources:
Calgary Police Service, missing person alert, August 4, 2026
Missing Children's Society of Canada: https://mcsc.ca
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