8/18/2023 0 Comments Giant timber wolf![]() If you’d like to see more of Daniel’s photos, please check out on Instagram, or click this picture. ![]() The Hay River Highway, courtesy of Daniel Cook. The time was around 3:00 a.m., and we were flying- going speeds of up to 140 km/h (87 mph). My friend was driving a 1991 Ford Mustang, a fairly small car. “It was the spring of 2011, and me and my friends were returning home from 7-Eleven, which was an hour away from Spruce Lake. ![]() “A simple 7-Eleven trip turned into a horror I will never ever forget… The following is Justin’s own account of the sighting, lightly edited my this author for the sake of fluidity: Experienced and brought to my attention by Justin Watkins of Spruce Lake, Saskatchewan, this sighting takes place at the southern edge of Canada’s boreal forest, making it the southernmost Waheela sighting in recorded history, to the best of this author’s knowledge. I detailed a number of alleged Waheela sightings in my book Legends of the Nahanni Valley, and am pleased to present a new, never-before-published sighting here in this article. Often referred to as the ‘ Waheela’, this creature is typically described as having a wide head, a powerful build, a snow-white coat, and a size many times the magnitude of that of the average gray wolf. Since at least the 1950s, traders, trappers, and aboriginal Canadians have returned from the northern wilds with stories of an enormous solitary wolf said to haunt the boreal forests of Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. Although some biologists have argued that a few of these subspecies share too many similarities with each other to be classified as distinct, indigenous legend and frontier lore suggest that an additional variety of Canadian wolf ought to be added to the list.įor years, tales of a strange lupine monster currently unacknowledged by the scientific community have been leaking from Northern Canada to the Outside, as northerners often refer to southerly civilization. These subspecies can be roughly lumped into six categories based on their distribution and habitat: the Artic Archipelago variety the tundra and barrens variety the Newfoundland and Labrador variety the Pacific Northwest variety the Great Lakes variety and the northwestern forests variety. ![]() In addition to the domestic dog, Canada is currently home to twelve recognized subspecies of gray wolf. Even the white fur traders who began trickling into Northern Canada in the early 1800s, despite despising wolves for interfering with the trap lines of their native clients, often attempted to crossbreed their sled dogs with their wild subarctic cousins in the hopes of acquiring robust wolfdog puppies. The Inuit who made their homes in the tundra north of Dene territory often trimmed the hoods of their parkas with wolf fur, since that substance, along with wolverine fur, is the only natural material on which humid breath will not depose into ice during wintertime. ![]() Many of those same Dene peoples, from the Han of central Yukon to the Slavey of the Northwest Territories, adopted the Wolf as the symbol of one of the two moieties into which they divided themselves (the other moiety usually being the Crow or the Raven) traditionally, a man of the Wolf moiety could only marry a woman of the Crow moiety, and vice versa. The native Dene peoples who pitched their moose hide teepees in the wilds of Northern Canada long before the white man made his appearance in that quarter believed that wolves were the reincarnated spirits of their ancestors, and often went to great lengths to avoid killing them. Giant White Wolf Spotted in Northern Saskatchewanįor as long as human beings have inhabited Canada’s boreal forests, the wolf has occupied a place of special significance in the hearts and minds of subarctic Canadians. ![]()
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