A two-year-old girl who wandered from a farm in Norwich Township near Woodstock, Ont., has been found safe by a search volunteer.

“We were just walking along the back cornfield and we’re just calling her name. I called her name, I wasn’t hearing anything," said a man who identified himself as Steve, who was searching with his father, Ron. Neither man would give their last name.

“I heard a little girl crying and I followed the noise and it took me right to her,” said Steve.

Steve said he and his father had just gotten started in their search, and had only been looking for about ten minutes when they found her along a cornfield, about 25 metres from the edge of the field.

“We walked in a ways and pulled her out. She was lying down, crying,” said Ron.

“It was pretty special, I’ve got two kids of my own, so you know, to hear her and all she wanted to do was go to her mommy and daddy, it was pretty special,” said Steve.

Ontario Provincial Police Const. Larry Plummer said the girl was a significant distance from where she had gone missing. She has been taken to hospital as a precaution.

“Thank God last night wasn’t as cold as it has been,” said Plummer.

Huge search effort

Search and rescue teams pack up in Norwich Township after missing toddler Brooklyn Honderich was found safe Monday morning. (Steven D'Souza/CBC News)

Her disappearance sparked a huge search effort by police.

A helicopter and two canine units and more than 25 officers were involved in a large-scale sweep of cornfields east of Norwich following the girl's disappearance just before 7 p.m. Sunday.

"We had searchers out all night, searching the corn, and all the property and all the areas of highest probability," said Plummer in an interview with CBC News Monday morning.

About 60 volunteers from the community showed up to help in the search as well.

Plummer said the girl's parents were working on the farm when she wandered away.

"They were working, and she was outside playing, and they noticed she was missing," he said.

Plummer told CBC that the family owns a barn and cattle at the farm property, but lives somewhere else nearby.