Body of teen canoeist recovered from lake near Bancroft

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Ontario Provincial Police are reminding radical to deterioration beingness jackets connected the h2o aft recovering the assemblage of a young Scarborough antheral from a water adjacent Bancroft, Ont.

19-year-old from Scarborough believed to person drowned aft canoe capsized

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· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 12:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 41 minutes ago

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Ontario Provincial Police recovered the assemblage of a 19-year-old antheral from Faraday Lake aft his canoe capsized connected Monday. (CBC)

The assemblage of a 19-year-old antheral from Scarborough has been recovered from a water adjacent Bancroft, Ont., aft his canoe capsized connected Monday, according to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment investigating the suspected drowning.

Emergency services called to Faraday Lake westbound of Bancroft connected Monday greeting recovered 2 different males who had been successful the canoe safely ashore, OPP said successful a connection Tuesday.

The OPP's underwater hunt and betterment portion aboriginal recovered a body and confirmed it to beryllium that of the missing canoeist. The connection did not place the young man, but noted helium had not been wearing a beingness jacket.

"The h2o is inactive precise acold making it much challenging if you autumn in," OPP said, reminding radical to ever deterioration a idiosyncratic flotation instrumentality erstwhile connected the water. 

Bancroft is simply a municipality connected the York River successful Hastings County, astir 175 kilometres westbound of downtown Ottawa.

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