A search team from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band scoured the river in Saskatoon Saturday but failed to find any sign of a missing man who was supposed to be married over the weekend.
Gregory “Myles” MacIntosh, 28, went missing shortly after midnight two weeks ago as he was celebrating his bachelor party. His fiancée’s family said they believe his disappearance is connected to an incident that same night in which someone was reportedly seen walking on the river’s ice near the Sid Buckwold Bridge before falling into the water.
MacIntosh’s family reached out to the Lac La Ronge group to search the river.
“I can’t imagine what hardship they’re going through,” said Leon Charles, one of the search team members. “By us trying to help, trying to do something, it’s that feeling of giving the family hope of [closure].”
The search group uses a remotely operated vehicle, or small submarine camera, to scan underwater. They’re the same team of volunteers who found the body of a 66-year-old Saskatchewan man in Otter Lake last week.
Saskatoon police are still awaiting DNA test results on blood found at the river bank. Divers cannot enter the water until spring.
