KENORA, Ont -- Provincial police have recovered the body of a missing boater from Lake of the Woods.
Officers with the Kenora detachment of the OPP were notified Tuesday that a 67-year-old California man was missing on Lake of the Woods.
Two men from the United States had been fishing and stopped on shore for lunch when their boat drited away.
The California man attempted to swim after the boat but did not return.
The OPP underwater search and recovery unit attended the location in the Monument Bay area of Lake of the Woods and located the body of the deceased on July 5.
The man has been identified as 67-year-old Grant Hoffman of Napa, California.
The investigation is continuing and a post-mortem examination is scheduled for July 6.