OPP followed up on a tip by a canoeist and found a dead man in Rice Lake on Saturday afternoon. - Shawn Salo
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP -- A boater who went missing this past November while fishing has been found.
Police suspended the search for his body last November and had begun again this April.
On Saturday (April 22) around 2:40 p.m. Northumberland OPP said they received a report of a body floating the north shoreline of Rice Lake off Hannah Road.
The body was pulled from the water shortly after 3 p.m. near Bailieboro.
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Investigators recovered a dead man who fit the description of the missing boater that police have been searching for since last Nov. 11.
The Regional Coroner attended and has scheduled a post mortem for the week of April 24 at the Office of the Chief Coroner and Forensic Pathology Service in Toronto.
Search efforts for the second missing boater have been suspended pending positive identification of the deceased.
Northumberland OPP began searching for a missing Oshawa man on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016 after a second person, a 45-year-old man from Whitby, was found in Rice Lake off Halstead Beach Road, east of Bewdley.
Residents found the Whitby man unresponsive in the water, police said.
After being pulled from the water he was given CPR and then transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead.