BC Coroners Service confirms identity of deceased male

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a male who died following an accident at an Osoyoos fruit farm where he had worked for the summer on Sept. 26, 2014.

He is Gabriel Gendreau-Martineau, aged 23, of St. Agathe, Quebec, a town in the Laurentians northwest of Montreal.

Mr. Gendreau-Martineau had spent the summer working on the Osoyoos fruit farm, but had concluded his work there. He was still tenting on the property prior to his planned departure.

On the morning of Sept. 26, 2014, a full-time worker on the farm found Mr. Gendreau-Martineau deceased at the base of a six-metre high pile of stacked fruit crates.

Preliminary investigation suggests he was climbing the stack in the early morning hours of Friday, when the top crate came loose, causing him to fall to the parking lot below