The bodies of a man and child have been recovered after a tractor fell into a lake in the Lanaudière region of Quebec on Wednesday evening.
SQ says they wer found 11:30 a.m. ET Thursday, about 17 hours after emergency services called to scene
Shaki Sutharsan · CBC News · Posted: Dec 25, 2025 1:19 PM EST | Last Updated: less than a minute ago
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Sûreté du Québec says the bodies of a man and a child were recovered from a lake Thursday morning, hours after divers began searching from them. The man had been driving a tractor the evening before when it went into the water, according to police. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)
The bodies of a man and a child were recovered Thursday morning after a tractor fell into a lake the evening before in Saint-Zénon, a town two hours north of Montreal in Quebec’s Lanaudière region.
The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) confirmed the news to Radio-Canada, saying the recovery happened around 11:30 a.m. ET.
There’s currently no criminal investigation, the provincial police service said.
The SQ said the tractor driver, a man in his 40s, had been clearing snow from a path near the lake.
Emergency services had been called to the scene at 6 p.m. Wednesday by a relative who said they saw the tractor sink, prompting a search involving divers.
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Shaki Sutharsan is a reporter for CBC News. She is a 2025 CBC News Summer Scholar and has previously worked as a producer at CBC New Brunswick in Fredericton and interned with CBC’s Investigative Unit. She graduated with a bachelor’s of journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2024.
With files from Radio-Canada and The Canadian Press
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