University of Toronto engineering student dies while at school’s survey camp
TORONTO — The University of Toronto says one of its students has died while attending the school’s engineering survey camp in central Ontario.
The dean of the engineering faculty released a note to staff and students informing them that an 18-year-old civil engineering student died at the facility on Gull Lake near Minden, Ont. on Tuesday afternoon.
Ontario Provincial Police confirmed that an 18-year-old man from Mississauga, Ont., had drowned at the camp, which the university uses to train students in land surveying and project management.
Neither the university nor police released the teen’s name.