Tributes pour in for mother and 10-month-old baby by grizzly bear in Canada

Tributes have poured in for a mother killed along with her 10-month-old daughter by a grizzly bear in Canada.

Valérie Théorêt​ and daughter Adele Roesholt were killed by the bear at a remote cabin in the Yukon near the Northwest Territories border.

The 37-year-old’s husband Gjermund Roesholt told police he was coming back from checking his traps when he was charged by a grizzly bear about 100 metres from the cabin.

He shot the bear dead, but when he got back to his cabin, he found the bodies of his wife and child just outside.

Valerie’s friends have paid tribute to her following the news, describing her as a nature-lover and a pillar of the community.

Madeleine Piuze told CBC: “It’s so hard to believe it. She will be remembered as a woman so strong and positive and loving and generous and respectful — and respectful of nature, as well. Like, she was just a nature lover. Just an amazing woman. The best friend ever.”

Ms Piuze said Valerie’s husband, originally from Norway, had met with friends as he grieves the loss of his wife and child.

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“We feel so lucky that he was willing to come with us,” she said and it made a big difference for us and probably for him too — to feel that we were all together.

“He was just able to speak to the group about what he’s been through — and about how they were happy, before, on the trapline, and how beautiful it was.”

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The family reportedly had their trapline for around three years, catching animals including wolves, foxes and lynx and Valerie would make products from the fur.

Isabelle Salesse, executive director of L’Association franco-yukonnaise (AFY), describe Valerie as “full of energy, known across the community because she was involved in many things”.

“What struck me was that [Théorêt​] was always smiling. She had this huge smile … her baby was following the same way,” she said.

Fatal bear attacks are rare in Canada.