Officers with the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) have recovered the body of a missing boater from the waters of Lac-Saint-Louis in Beauharnois.
SQ spokesperson Ingrid Asselin said a fisherman made the discovery Thursday morning.
The two boaters went missing earlier this week; Asselin confirmed search and rescue efforts are now over.
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The two friends had launched their boat from the Beauharnois marina Monday afternoon and were expected to return from fishing in the evening, according to friends and family.
When the pair did not return from their trip, the Châteauguay police, firefighters and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) were called to perform a search and rescue of the waters along the southwest shore of Saint Lawrence River.
The CCG found the pair’s boat damaged and capsized along with fishing equipment near the Hydro-Québec Beauharnois power generating station on Tuesday around 2 a.m.
— With files from Global’s Justin Bulman.
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