Takakkaw Falls

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Takakkaw Falls (Template:IPAc-en; also spelled Takkakaw<ref name="eb" />) is a waterfall in Yoho National Park, near Field, British Columbia, in Canada. The falls have a total height of Template:Convert,<ref name="eb" /> making them the second tallest waterfall in Canada.<ref name="encyclopedia">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="field">Template:Cite web</ref> The main drop of the waterfall has a height of Template:Convert.<ref name="eb" />

Template:Lang means "it is magnificent” in the Cree language.<ref name="eb" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> Despite the name's Cree origin, indigenous people did not give the falls this name, and the Cree people did not historically inhabit this area. Rather, it was suggested as a name by Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, the head of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and officially adopted in 1904.<ref name=":0" />

The falls are fed by the meltwater of the Daly Glacier, which is part of the Waputik Icefield.<ref name="eb" /><ref name="wwd" /><ref name="encyclopedia" /><ref name="field" /> The glacier keeps the volume of the falls up during the warm summer months, and they are a tourist attraction, particularly in late spring after the heavy snow melts, when the falls are at peak condition.<ref name="field" />

Height

Various sources place the total vertical height of Takakkaw Falls between Template:Convert and Template:Convert.<ref name="eb" /><ref name="wwd" /> The waterfall was formerly thought to be the tallest in Canada, but a survey in 1985 found that it is actually shorter than Della Falls on Vancouver Island.<ref name="eb" /> The results of that survey also concluded that the main drop of the falls is Template:Convert high.<ref name="eb" />