Angela Caroline Hartmann - Missing Since August 1983, last thought to be in Calgary, Alberta

Missing Person: Angela Caroline Hartmann

Details from a government source (might be paraphrased): Angela traveled across Canada with plans of going from Ontario to Vancouver, BC. According to the case file, Angela hitchhiked by herself. She was to meet her parents in San Francisco, CA but never showed up. Postcards were received by family and friends up to Calgary, Alberta in August of 1983. Angela was born in the Bay Area and was scheduled to attend college in Ontario, CA in September.

Note: I believe the college in "Ontario, CA" should be taken to mean Ontario, California as opposed to Ontario, Canada.

Last contact: August 22nd, 1983 (Monday) (the MP sent a letter that was postmarked on this day)

Last location: Calgary, Alberta, as suggested by postcards. Her whereabouts have been associated with a Calgary youth hostel. My guess is that she was at the hostel at 516 7th Avenue SE in downtown Calgary, where a hostel has stood for about five decades now.

Age when Angela Caroline Hartmann disappeared: 27

Sex: Female

Height in inches: 62

Weight in pounds (lbs): 115

Ethnicity: White/Caucasian

Hair color: Sandy

Eye Color: Brown

Scar or distinctive characteristic: None.

Family: Addamaria Hartman (mother); the MP was the youngest of three daughters at the time of her disappearance; 

Link to government source: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/123995/details?nav

BMI means body mass index. It is meant to describe someone's healthy body weight relative to their height. It is food for thought as to how someone may have looked. However, it is meant as a guide only and does not account for all body types.

Angela Caroline Hartmann had a BMI of 21.03.  Angela Caroline Hartmann was at a HEALTHY WEIGHT by BMI standards at the time of her disappearance. 

Commentary and Research

By: Shane Lambert 

Has Angela Caroline Hartmann been found?

Angela Carolina Hartmann remains missing. Her case was uploaded to NamUs in 2024. One thing that stands out with this case is her last known location. It has been inferred to be Calgary, Alberta as evidenced by postcards she sent to family members. Her NamUs profile says she is missing from San Francisco but readers should not mistake that as her last-known location.

What stands out with this case is that Angela Hartmann was a hitchhiker. That method of travel has produced scores of missing people over the decades. It is hard not to consider her case in conjunction with the fact that she went missing on a hitchhiking trip across Canada.

This case did make the newspapers in Alberta. The Red Deer Advocate had a brief profile of her case about a year after she went missing. As stated, there had been a couple of tourists in the fall of 1983 who had been shot. That article is from August 17th, 1984 and I snipped it below.

Angela Hartmann was in Quebec City in early August, as evidenced by a letter she sent to her mother. That letter had a postmark of August 6th, 1983. On August 22nd, 1983, she sent a letter to a man who ran a hostel in Peterborough, Ontario. It's this letter that placed Hartmann in Calgary on the date of the postmark. The MP had left belongings in Peterborough.

Kitchener Waterloo Record. August 17th, 1984.

I do know Calgary well. Furthermore, I used to be a hostel patron. My guess is that she stayed at the youth hostel now known as the HI Calgary City Center. It is still around and I last stayed there in 2009. Looking at historical archives, it reportedly was scheduled to be opened in February 1976 and would have been open in 1983, I'm sure. Calgary may have some modern hostels but this is the only one I can think of that has been around for decades.

The Calgary Albertan. Jan 14, 1976.