SLAVE LAKE — A 50-year-old man has died after the canoe he was in capsized in northern Alberta.
Mounties say the got a call on the weekend about three men in a canoe in distress on Nipisi Lake, about 70 kilometres north of Slave Lake.
The lake is accessible only by ATV.
Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development sent three helicopters to the lake and found the men, who police say are from Edmonton.
The men were taken to hospital, but one of the men succumbed to the cold and passed away.
Police say all three were wearing life jackets while fishing in the canoe, but the lake got rough and waves swamped the boat.