{"id":630120,"date":"2026-04-26T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630120\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:21:07","slug":"ottawa-resident-dies-in-boating-accident-on-st-lawrence-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630120\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa resident dies in boating accident on St. Lawrence River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ottawa resident is dead following a boating incident on the St. Lawrence River, OPP say.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds County OPP were called shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday to reports of a capsized boat on the St. Lawrence River, north of Grenadier Island.<\/p>\n<p>First responders confirmed a 15-foot aluminum vessel with multiple occupants have overturned. One individual was unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>The Leeds 1000 Islands Fire Service located one person unresponsive in the water. That individual, a 41-year-old from Ottawa, was transported by ambulance to local hospital. They were later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds OPP, with assistance from the OPP Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement Team, are continuing the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call 1-888-310-1122. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ottawa resident is dead following a boating incident on the St. Lawrence River, OPP say. Leeds County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-630120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}