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2005 Wolf Attack That Killed Canadian Student Revisited in New Accounts

The latest pieces revisit the incident as a settled 2005 case with documented official responses.

Overview

  • Kenton Carnegie, 22, was on a university geological placement at Points North Landing when he left camp for a lakeside walk on November 8, 2005.
  • Bush pilot Todd Svarckopf had warned him not to go, yet Carnegie set out and was trailed by a wolf before two more joined and fatally attacked.
  • Camp members later followed his tracks to the lake and found his body surrounded by wolf prints, after which northern coroner Rosalie Tsannie attended the scene.
  • Three days after the killing, provincial wildlife officers shot two wolves, and post‑mortems found hair and other material in their digestive tracts that may have been human.
  • Family statements emphasize he was simply going to look at rocks and had told his mother the previous day that wolves were in the area.