Bodies of 2 missing boaters recovered from Upper Kananaskis Lake
Posted September 12, 2025 10:28 am.
The bodies of two missing boaters were recovered from a lake in K-Country this week, after their canoe capsized last month.
It was 4 p.m. on Aug. 26 when Cochrane RCMP and Kananaskis Emergency Services (KES) responded to a report of two missing boaters following a canoe capsize on Upper Kananaskis Lake.
The boat had four people in it when it tipped over.
Bystanders in the area were able to use boats and paddleboards to rescue a 30-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman.
The other two passengers weren’t immediately recovered.
On Thursday, Sept. 11, the Alberta RCMP Underwater Search Team and Kananaskis Mountain Rescue recovered the other two victims from the lake.
They’ve been identified as a 33-year-old woman from Banff and a 34-year-old man from Canmore.
This deadly capsize was the second in Alberta’s mountains in just a week. Two people from Calgary died when their family’s canoe capsized on Barrier Lake in Kananaskis on Aug. 16.
