Police say they have located the vehicle belonging to 71-year-old James Cuthbert, who was reported missing almost two weeks ago.

Investigators say they found Cuthbert’s white four-door Toyota Prius at the Marine Atlantic ferry terminal in North Sydney, N.S. Thursday afternoon. His keys were locked inside the vehicle.

“It’s especially hard now that we’ve found the car,” says Cuthbert’s son-in-law, Tom Martin. “We all thought, well, we’ll find the car, we’ll have some answers. Yeah, we found the car. We have some answers.”

Investigators say surveillance video shows Cuthbert boarding a ferry to Port au Basque, Newfoundland for the 11:45 p.m. crossing the same day he disappeared.

They aren’t certain whether he got off the ferry, but there are 60 cameras onboard.

“We do have a lot of video surveillance to pour through so we’re still looking into whether or not he got off the ferry,” says Halifax Regional Police spokeswoman Theresa Rath.

“When they can tell me definitively he walked off that boat, that’s better news,” says Martin. “We’re not going to give up hope.”

Cuthbert left his home in Jeddore, N.S. around 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 26.

His family said he was going to run some errands and meet his 102-year-old mother, whom he has visited religiously every second day for nine years. They knew something was wrong when he failed to show up.

Martin says investigators have learned Cuthbert altered his appearance before boarding the ferry.

“He shaved his beard and he left his moustache,” says Martin.

Investigators have used surveillance video to begin a timeline of Cuthbert’s activities.

They know he stopped at the Esso service station on Cole Harbour Road shortly after noon on Oct. 26 and then stopped at the Canadian Tire store in Dartmouth Crossing around 12:30 p.m.

A tip from a witness also placed Cuthbert outside his car in the parking lot of the Home Depot in Dartmouth Crossing sometime between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. that day.

Investigators are working with the Cape Breton Regional Police, the RCMP in Cape Breton and Newfoundland and Labrador, and Marine Atlantic as they investigate Cuthbert’s disappearance.

Cuthbert is described as a white man with slightly balding hair, a grey beard and hazel eyes. He is about six-feet tall and weighs 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing rimless glasses, a brown leather bomber-style jacket and brown loafer shoes.

Anyone with information on Cuthbert’s disappearance is asked to contact police.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Rick Grant