RCMP search for pair of missing boaters after canoe capsizes in Rocky Mountains

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KANANASKIS - Alberta RCMP are searching for a pair of boaters in their 30s after their canoe capsized on a lake in the Rocky Mountains.

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KANANASKIS – Alberta RCMP are searching for a pair of boaters in their 30s after their canoe capsized on a lake in the Rocky Mountains.

Mounties say four people were in the canoe Tuesday afternoon when it overturned on Upper Kananaskis Lake.

Bystanders in their boats and paddleboards pulled a 30-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman from the water, but another man and woman, also in their 30s, remain missing.

RCMP logo shown in Edmonton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
RCMP logo shown in Edmonton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Rescuers continue to search the area tucked behind several mountain tops near Alberta’s boundary with British Columbia.

It’s the second time in two weeks that a boat overturned in the Rockies, after a 60-year-old man and his 30-year-old son died when their canoe capsized on Barrier Lake, an hour’s drive west of Calgary.

A 56-year-old woman in the boat was hospitalized with hypothermia.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 27, 2025.

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