Funeral services took place Monday for one of two men who drowned over the weekend at Oka Beach.
500 mourners attended the service for 19-year-old Dharmeshbai Patel.
He and Dilpreet Singh, 22, both died Saturday while playing in the water about 150 m from shore.
Neither man could swim, nor could the half-dozen friends that were with them at the beach.
The beach is infamous for sudden dropoffs which lie sometimes 12 metres deep, often imperceptibly adjacent to the otherwise shallow waters.
Parts of the beach are equipped with signage that warns swimmers to stay away from certain sections but the current state of that signage was not immediately known.
The bodies of the two men were found Sunday about 18 hours after they slipped beneath the surface.
No lifeguards were working at the beach, and normally no lifeguards are scheduled to start working in the area until June 2, 2012.
One family member felt that the beach should have been better equipped to deal with such situations.
"There is no sign which restricts you not to go over there and there was no life jackets, there was no body who was responsible for swimming and nobody was there at least for at least a couple of hours, those boys were totally helpless," said family representative Rogesh Patel.
Authorities say they will consider installing ropes and buoys to clearly designate shallow water.
The drownings are believed to be the fifth and sixth at the beach since August 1998 when cousins Paresh Patel, 19, and Hetal Patel, 26, drowned. Another swimmer died June 26, 2007 and another on September 3, 2011.
The worst-ever drowning disaster in the Lake of Two Mountains occurred in July 1954 when 12 Montreal children drowned in a boating mishap.
