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- Birth nameKenton Joel Carnegie
- Kenton Carnegie was born on February 11, 1983 in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. He died on November 8, 2005 in Points North Landing, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- He is buried at Thornton Cemetery in Oshawa, Ontario.
- Carnegie was on a co-operative business term placement during his third year as a Geological Engineering student at University of Waterloo. He informed Chris Van Galder that he was going for a walk. Todd Svarckopf warned him to not walk and play hockey inside the airport's hangar for a substitution, but Carnegie disregarded that warning. He did not return at the expected time for supper. The camp's owner Mark Eikel took Van Galder and Svarckopf to find Carnegie, but Eikel found out about Carnegie's tragic death when he noticed the corpse. He remained on a nearby road in a pick-up truck with Carnegie's two colleagues until Constable Alfonse Noey, Robert Burseth and his wife Rosalie Tsannie-Burseth arrived at the site.
- Unlike Fred Desjarlais ten months earlier, Carnegie was by himself when wolves attacked him. Eleven years later, twenty-six old Andrew Morgan was also by himself when a lone wolf pursued him while he was walking back to Holiday Inn on a forest trail in Canmore, Alberta near Banff National Park. He managed to survive the incident by fending the wolf with a tree branch multiple times until it released him. Andrew subsequently climbed over a barbed-wire fence, but fell a few times. He finally found his way out of the forest near Holiday Inn. The next day, Andrew went to a hospital to get checked over and reported the incident to conservation officers with Alberta Environment and Parks.
- He was Kim and Lori Carnegie's son. His siblings were Calvin and Breanne Carnegie. Calvin has a wife named Sarah.
- Kenton's tragic incident was the first North American fatal wolf attack in the 21st Century. Five years later, a young female American schoolteacher named Candice Berner lost her life in a northwestern wolf assault while she was jogging in Chignik Lake, Alaska. Like Carnegie, Candice's flesh was partially consumed by the same two wolves that launched the assault on her.
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