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Churchill Falls is a 74.7-meter waterfall on the Churchill River in Labrador whose once-powerful flow was largely reduced after diversion for hydroelectric generation, leaving only a small stream in its old channel. For local Indigenous peoples, especially the Innu, it was an important landmark known as Patshishetshuanau, “place where the current makes clouds,” and a taboo against looking at it lasted into the early 20th century. Reached by Europeans in 1839 by John McLean, it remained remote through much of the 19th century despite later expeditions. Renamed in 1965 for Winston Churchill, the falls were soon overshadowed by the hydroelectric project that transformed them.
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