The community will hold a funeral for all the victims Thursday. It will be followed by a potlatch. By Andrea Buckley Yukon News Reporter George Darbyshire can remember trapping weasels when he was a young boy. His trapline is near the village of Champagne. And even though fur prices have been unstable over the past decade and the European Union is planning to ban Canadian furs caught in leghold traps, he still goes out on the line every weekend.
Every day is a new experience.
But even if it gets to the point where furs are worthless, there will still be trappers in the Yukon, he says. The wolverine and the wolves, they stay in Canada anyway. They don't go over to Europe. He started trapping in Alberta before moving to the Yukon in 1939. His trapline, which he still maintains every weekend, is near Gravel Lake.