U.S. canoeists besieged by grizzly on Northwest Territories canoe trip rescued

YELLOWKNIFE — Mounties say a pair of American travellers had to rescued from the Northwest Territories wilderness after a grizzly bear destroyed their canoe.

RCMP say they got a report Sunday that two people were stranded near Hanbury Lake, which is about 500 kilometres east of Yellowknife.

The man and woman used a communication device to send their location to the International Emergency Response Coordination Center run by a Texas monitoring company.

The campers then managed to stay clear of the bear until officers with the territory’s Environment and Natural Resources department rescued them by helicopter the next day.