Police have released the names of the man and woman who died after their snowmobiles went into the water of Jack Lake near Apsley on or shortly after Christmas Day.
The couple has been identified as 76-year-old Gerald White and 69-year-old Patricia White of Toronto, Ontario. According to a relative, the Whites have had a cottage on Jack Lake for the past 50 years.
The two snowmobilers were last seen at 11 p.m. on December 25th and did not return from their ride.
At 10 a.m. on December 26th, members of the Peterborough County detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and emergency services responded to a report that two bodies had been seen in the water of Jack Lake.
Police and emergency services recovered the bodies, which were located around 30 feet from shore, and pronounced the man and woman dead at the scene.
The bodies of the Whites have been transported to the Provincial Forensic Pathology Unit at the Forensic Services and Coroners Complex in Toronto for a post-mortem examination.
