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Family of missing elderly woman in Markham located: police

File photo. A York Regional Police cruiser. Nick Westoll / File / Global News

Police say they have located the family of a woman in her 80s found wandering alone in a Markham, Ont., neighbourhood in her bare feet.

York Regional Police said the woman was found by a passerby around 7:30 a.m. near the intersection of Townley Avenue and Highglen Avenue just west of McCowan Road.

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Police said she was taken to a local hospital.

Authorities had been looking to locate her family since Thursday morning.

The temperature in Markham Thursday morning was hovering around -10C.

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