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A prominent Doctor from my community.
It's hard to say if having a bigger knife in this situation would have helped at all, in all, a tragic story.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/09/07/killer_black_bear20050907.html
Black bear kills woman camper north of Chapleau, Ont.
Last Updated Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:00:44 EDT
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A black bear -- that may have learned to prey on humans -- killed a woman and injured her husband at a provincial park in northern Ontario.
Jacqueline Perry in this family photo. (CP PHOTO/Brantford Expositor - HO)
Police and wildlife officials were on the hunt for the wounded bear Wednesday and campers have been ordered out of the back country of Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park.
30-year-old Jacqueline Perry and Mark Jordan, also 30, were attacked at a campsite in the provincial park, about 80 kilometres north of Chapleau.
Ontario Provincial Police said that while the bear was attacking Perry, Jordan managed to stab it a few times with a Swiss Army knife in a frantic effort to keep it from dragging his wife into the woods. Jordan was flown to hospital in Sudbury.
Perry was a family doctor at Grandview Medical Centre in Cambridge, Ont.
The couple were on a two-week holiday, camping and kayaking at a remote campsite when the black bear attacked.
OPP Const. Karen Farand said after fighting off the bear, the injured Jordan carried Perry to their kayak and began to paddle to the nearest campsite. He yelled for help and a father and his 30-year-old son from Pennsylvania, heard him. Jordan put his wife into their boat.
About a kilometre away, they flagged down another boat, which carried a doctor from North Carolina and an off-duty police officer. The doctor tried to treat Perry while the boat continued on to the park office, about 10 kilometres away. But by then Farand said Perry had succumbed to her injuries.
"I've lived here all my life and this is a first for me," said Farand. "I can't even imagine what (Perry and Jordan) went through."
Keith Scott, a bear expert with the Ministry of Natural Resources, said such attacks are "very rare. There's only been four fatalities in Ontario through black bears dating back to about 1978," he said. "This one in this particular case, it's early in the investigation, but it appears to be a predatory-type bear. These bears have learned to and often prey on humans."
There have been a number of bear attacks across Canada this summer.
A Manitoba man fended off a black bear in early September, just one week after a black bear killed another man in the province. There have been four grizzly bear attacks in Alberta since June, including a fatal one on a female jogger near Canmore. And a woman in British Columbia was mauled by a bear in May.
It's hard to say if having a bigger knife in this situation would have helped at all, in all, a tragic story.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/09/07/killer_black_bear20050907.html
Black bear kills woman camper north of Chapleau, Ont.
Last Updated Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:00:44 EDT
CBC News
A black bear -- that may have learned to prey on humans -- killed a woman and injured her husband at a provincial park in northern Ontario.
Jacqueline Perry in this family photo. (CP PHOTO/Brantford Expositor - HO)
Police and wildlife officials were on the hunt for the wounded bear Wednesday and campers have been ordered out of the back country of Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park.
30-year-old Jacqueline Perry and Mark Jordan, also 30, were attacked at a campsite in the provincial park, about 80 kilometres north of Chapleau.
Ontario Provincial Police said that while the bear was attacking Perry, Jordan managed to stab it a few times with a Swiss Army knife in a frantic effort to keep it from dragging his wife into the woods. Jordan was flown to hospital in Sudbury.
Perry was a family doctor at Grandview Medical Centre in Cambridge, Ont.
The couple were on a two-week holiday, camping and kayaking at a remote campsite when the black bear attacked.
OPP Const. Karen Farand said after fighting off the bear, the injured Jordan carried Perry to their kayak and began to paddle to the nearest campsite. He yelled for help and a father and his 30-year-old son from Pennsylvania, heard him. Jordan put his wife into their boat.
About a kilometre away, they flagged down another boat, which carried a doctor from North Carolina and an off-duty police officer. The doctor tried to treat Perry while the boat continued on to the park office, about 10 kilometres away. But by then Farand said Perry had succumbed to her injuries.
"I've lived here all my life and this is a first for me," said Farand. "I can't even imagine what (Perry and Jordan) went through."
Keith Scott, a bear expert with the Ministry of Natural Resources, said such attacks are "very rare. There's only been four fatalities in Ontario through black bears dating back to about 1978," he said. "This one in this particular case, it's early in the investigation, but it appears to be a predatory-type bear. These bears have learned to and often prey on humans."
There have been a number of bear attacks across Canada this summer.
A Manitoba man fended off a black bear in early September, just one week after a black bear killed another man in the province. There have been four grizzly bear attacks in Alberta since June, including a fatal one on a female jogger near Canmore. And a woman in British Columbia was mauled by a bear in May.