{"id":630834,"date":"2026-04-27T00:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630834\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:31:29","slug":"ottawa-man-dead-after-boat-capsizes-on-st-lawrence-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630834\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa man dead after boat capsizes on St. Lawrence River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A 41\u2011year\u2011old man from Ottawa is dead following a boating incident on the St. Lawrence River, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said. <\/p>\n<p>According to an OPP press release, officers from the Leeds County detachment responded to calls about a capsized boat north of Grenadier Island, about 55 kilometres northeast of Kingston, shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A 4.5-metre aluminum vessel with multiple occupants on board had overturned and one person was unaccounted for, police said.<\/p>\n<p>All other occupants made it to shore safely, OPP added.<\/p>\n<p>The Leeds 1000 Islands Fire Service found the missing man unresponsive in the water. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>OPP said an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-630834","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\/630834","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=630834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}