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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.
The Kicking Horse River was inscribed in the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in January 1987, for its natural and human heritage.[1]
- ^ Kicking Horse River. Canadian Heritage River System. Retrieved on October 24, 2006.
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