Kakabeka Falls

Kakabeka Falls, on the Kaministiquia River west of Thunder Bay, is a 40-metre waterfall long known as a major natural landmark in northwestern Ontario. Named from an Ojibwe word meaning “waterfall over a cliff,” it plunges into a gorge carved through the Precambrian Shield after the Last Glacial Maximum. The unstable shale, ancient fossils, and sensitive plant life in the gorge make the area below the falls fragile and hazardous. For centuries the river was an important travel route, with voyageurs portaging around the falls, and the site later became a noted subject in Canadian art and in the enduring Legend of Green Mantle. Since 1955 it has been protected as Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park.

Ontario · Canada