Kicking Horse River
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The Kicking Horse River is a river located in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The river begins near the Waputik Icefield in Yoho National Park and moves in a southwesterly direction past the towns of Field and Golden before reaching its confluence with the Columbia River.
The river was named in 1858, when James Hector, a member of the Palliser Expedition, was kicked by his packhorse while exploring the river. Hector survived and named the river and a pass as a result of the incident. The Kicking Horse Pass was the route through the mountains subsequently taken by the Canadian Pacific Railway when it was constructed during the 1880s.
[edit] Natural History
The Kicking Horse River was inscribed in the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in January 1987, for its natural and human heritage.[1]
Kicking Horse Mountain Resort is located in the Canadian Rockies, near Golden, in the Kickin Horse River valley.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Kicking Horse River. Canadian Heritage River System. Retrieved on 2006-10-24.
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