How to Deal With Bears on Vancouver Island, BC

. Staying at a friend’s house in November on Vancouver Island, Canada, I experienced not only a bomb cyclone with extreme winds and 23 hours of power outage but also three bear break-ins! Not into the house but the garage where two huge fridges are placed. A sign I saw in another Sooke neighborhood explicitly discouraged having fridges outside the house. The garage door was not safely secured and…