On May 12 of last year, members of city council voted 5-3 to support a motion to draft a personal flotation device bylaw and place ring buoys on the shore around Lake Margaret.
By doing so, those councillors chose to override a recommendation from Jeff Bray, then Director of Parks, Recreation and Facilities, that the city not proceed with the development of such a bylaw or the installation of the ring buoys due to potential liability issues.
The undertaking became known as the Ryan Davies Project, prompted by the death of 26-year-old Ryan Davies (pictured below) on Labour Day, 2024, when a canoe he and two friends were in tipped over, and he drowned in Lake Margaret.
