Valerie Theoret, 37, and her daughter Adele Roesholt died in the attack on Monday in a remote area of Yukon, a territory in the northwest of the country.

Royal Canadian mounted police were contacted at around 3.45pm by Mrs Theoret’s husband, Gjermund Roesholt

The animal trapper told officers a grizzly bear charged at him around 100 metres away from a cabin he had been living with his wife and daughter for the past three months.

After shooting the bear dead, he returned to his cabin and found the bodies of his wife and child outside.

“It appears they had been out for a walk when the incident occurred,” said coroner Heather Jones.

Yukon RCMP and Yukon coroner’s service are investigating the deaths, while the territory’s environment department and forensic identification team are assisting.

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