Boy saves 3-year-old from water-filled ditch in northern Sask.

A northern Saskatchewan boy says he was scared, but he went into a ditch full of water to save a three-year-old from drowning last week.

Harvey Dorion was walking to his brother's house after school last Wednesday when he noticed the little boy in the ditch.

Dorion says the boy was in a toy car that flipped over.

"That little boy was in that little car and he just went in that ditch and it was way deep and he was drowning," Dorion said. 

Dorion says his heart was pounding and the water was up to his eyes, but he just grabbed him and pulled him from the water.

His mother, Mary Jane Michel, says she is proud of her youngest boy. But she confesses she didn't realize what he had done until later.

"I initially didn't pay attention to him because I was busy at the house," Michel said. She says her son came in, changed his wet shoes, and left again.

Then later, she says she found a post in a private group she has on social media to track her "rough and tumble" boy's whereabouts if he misses his curfew.

Michel said that is where she learned what her son had done.

"Somebody posted on there ... 'Harvey saved a life today' and there were some comments and I wrote, 'Really?'" 

"I'm very happy and I'm very proud of him," Michel said.