Two Whitehorse men drowned over the weekend after their canoe capsized in Fish Lake, say Whitehorse RCMP.

The bodies Dwayne Charlie, 39, and Konrad Llewellyn, 37, were found in the water after a search that involved scanning the area by land, water and air.

A 24-year-old woman was also in the canoe when it flipped into the lake on Sunday afternoon.

Also a Whitehorse resident, she managed to swim to shore, according to police reports. Her name is not being released.

The RCMP received a call reporting the capsizing of a canoe at 1:38 p.m. Sunday.

As soon as the call came in, police began organizing the search, according to Sgt. John Sutherland.

They were told by the caller that a canoe had tipped over in the lake and two men were missing.

The caller was not a witness to the capsizing, but was relaying information from another person.

Police reports so far do not say what the witness saw, whether it was the canoe flipping, the empty canoe floating, the woman swimming to shore or another sign that the capsizing had occurred.

At around 3:00, during an aerial search of Fish Lake by helicopter, RCMP officers found the men's bodies.

They were taken from the water by police boat and given to emergency personnel on shore.

'Attempts to resuscitate the men were unsuccessful,' police say.

'The deceased persons had been in the water for an extended period of time prior to their being located.'

A number of organizations were called in to assist with the search . They included Whitehorse Search and Rescue volunteers, Yukon ambulance staff, the Marsh Lake Fire Service and territorial conservation officers.

Officials for fire services in Marsh Lake and conservation officers say their help was called off before they reached Fish Lake, as the bodies had already been found.

Volunteers from search and rescue and ambulance officials could not be reached for comment today.

While it's not known what weather conditions were at the time of the capsizing, the water was choppy when police entered Fish Lake during the search.

'I don't know what the weather was at the time of the capsizing, but when the members got out there, they told me the water was rough,' Sutherland said in an interview today.

The three boaters were all wearing personal floatation devices.

Investigations by both police and the Yukon Coroner's Office are underway.

The time of the capsizing, as well as exactly where the men's bodies were found, have not been released. Neither has the exact cause of death nor whether alcohol was involved.

It has not yet been decided if an autopsy will be conducted on the bodies, said chief coroner Sharon Hanley.

'We're pretty early into the investigation,' she said in an interview this morning.

'Autopsy determines the cause of death. So if we're satisfied with what we consider the cause of death, then we wouldn't autopsy.'

No foul play was involved in the death, according to Sutherland.