Drayton valley is only about 45 minutes from my place. On my old acreage northwest of Edmonton I used to get a lone wolf showing up time to time. I had a really good look at him a few times and I would easily put him at 150lbs, but this wolf in the picture... wow, that’s a big boy.
Wolves are everywhere again, even in Saskatchewan, a guy was killed by a pack while out for a walk, and the boys who work up north have to worry about the wolves wandering into camp. They lurk about the camp and wait for chances of food to drop, or an unsuspecting person wandering around.
Bears as well. The wife and I spent a few days around Calgary in late August. While crossing the Rockies into B.C., we saw four bears by the side of the highway...a mother with two cubs and a while later further down the road what looked like a lone male. Large ones too. We've been to Glacier, Yellowstone, and other American parks known for bears. Never saw any until our trip to Canada.