A multi-agency search is underway for a youth kayaker in Pictou County.

On May 1, at approximately 5 p.m., Pictou County District RCMP, fire services and EHS were dispatched to a report of an overturned kayaker on Eden Lake. RCMP officers learned that two youths, known to one another, were paddling on the lake in separate kayaks when one of them overturned, submerging the kayaker.

Fire services, Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) teams (Halifax GSAR, Pictou County GSAR, Strait Area GSAR, Inverness County GSAR, Colchester GSAR), a Department of Natural Resources helicopter, the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA), RCMP Air Services and the RCMP Underwater Recovery Team have been engaged in the search which remains ongoing.

Residents are asked to avoid the area.

Our thoughts are with the youth's loved ones at this difficult time.

File #: 2025-580096