Whiteshell Canoer

The RCMP in eastern Manitoba have located the body of a canoer who had been missing in Whiteshell Provincial Park since last weekend.

Police and a civilian boater located the body of the man in Big Whiteshell Lake,near where his canoe was found capsized last Sunday morning.

A post-mortem was conducted Thursday at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg and it determined the man died as a result of drowning.

Foul play has been ruled out.

The name of the deceased has not yet been released.