Federal officials say the icebreaker, known as Canadian Coast Guard Ship Edward Cornwallis, is undergoing a refit in Nova Scotia and will be renamed later this year before it leaves the Shelburne Shipyard.

The man is believed to have fallen from the bulk carrier Pilatus Venture, registered in Hong Kong.

Emergency crews were called to Victoria Beach Road in Colborne, Ont., after reports that a man in a Styrofoam boat had drifted off shore on Lake Ontario.

Glenda Power says the RCMP was the scene through the day Saturday assisting in search efforts.

The date of the service has not been set, but details will be announced on the St. Thomas Aquinas Parish Facebook page.

Police say weather conditions at the time were poor and they were unable to determine whether there was a person still inside.

The Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft hit the mouth of the Chateauguay River for its annual ice breaking operation.

Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan was in Shelburne, N.S., Monday to say the government will be funding repair work on the Canadian Coast Guard ship Edward Cornwallis, supporting 55 jobs at the Irving-owned Shelburne Ship Repair.

Over the next decade, the federal government will invest tens of billions of dollars into new science ships, icebreakers, supply vessels and warships, but top officials are wrestling with a difficult question: Who will sail the vessels?

Brad Durnford, superintendent of ice operations for the Atlantic region, says milder weather in December has resulted in a slow start to ice formation.