A.F. Blaine A.F. Blaine started trapping and prospecting in the Minto and Fort Selkirk area in 1929. In September 1946, he and his six dogs were attacked by a grizzly bear when they were fifty feet from Blaine’s camp. Blaine was unable to fire a shot during the sudden attack, but his dogs drove off the bear. Blaine was badly mauled with his right arm badly bitten and partially paralysed and with wounds on both legs. This was his third bear attack.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 6 September 1946.))