North York woman, 25, dead after canoe overturns in lake near Orillia, Ont.
An OPP cruiser.
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A 25-year-old North York woman has died after a canoe she was in overturned in Lake Couchiching, near Orillia.
Ontario Provincial Police said officers responded to a report of an overturned canoe around noon on Sunday.
Investigators said that two women were in a canoe that overturned about 100 metres from the shore. Neither woman was wearing a life-jacket.
County of Simcoe Paramedics rushed the 25-year-old woman to hospital, where she later died.
The second victim was cleared at the scene but later went to hospital on her own.
Neither victim has been identified.
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