Hunter shoots grizzly bear in Yukon, only to find it had already killed fur-designer wife and their baby
- Trapper Gjermund Roesholt shot the bear dead in Canada’s remote Yukon when it charged him
- But when he returned to his cabin, he found his wife Valerie Theoret and infant daughter Adele Roesholt dead outside
A young mother and her 10-month-old daughter have been killed by a grizzly bear metres from their cabin in Canada’s Yukon territory.
Valerie Theoret, 37, and their daughter Adele Roesholt, were killed on Monday near Einarson Lake, a remote area 400km from the territory’s capital of Whitehorse.
Theoret, a grade six French immersion teacher at Whitehorse junior school, was on maternity leave with her child.
She and husband Gjermund Roesholt had planned to spend some of those months on their trap line – a large parcel of land leased from the government to trap animals for fur.
The couple’s website describes Roesholt as an outdoor guide and mapping consultant, and Theoret as a designer of artisanal fur products. Adele is also featured on the site, wrapped in orange fox fur.
Roesholt had gone out to check the couple’s traps on Monday afternoon, but on his way back, he was charged by the bear, 100 metres from the couple’s cabin.
