Almost two weeks after they went missing, Alberta RCMP recovered the bodies of two boaters who vanished when their canoe capsized on a lake in the Rocky Mountains.
Mounties said the victims were a 33-year-old woman from Banff and a 34-year-old man from Canmore. Their names were not released.
Their bodies were found in Upper Kananaskis Lake on Sept. 11, with the help of the RCMP’s underwater search team and Kananaskis Mountain Rescue.
On the afternoon of Aug. 26, four people were in the canoe when it capsized on the lake that’s located an area tucked behind several mountain tops near the Alberta-B.C. boundary.
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RCMP said bystanders in boats and on paddleboards pulled a 30-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman from the water, but the two others could not be found.
It was the second time in weeks that boaters died in the Rockies.
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A 60-year-old man and his 30-year-old son died when a canoe capsized on Barrier Lake, an hour’s drive west of Calgary.
— with files from The Canadian Press
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