Takakkaw Falls

TAKAKKAW FALLS  () , 254 m, the second-highest WATERFALL in BC and in Canada and the highest in the ROCKY MTS, is in YOHO NATIONAL PARK, about 20 km north of FIELD. Water originates from the Daly Glacier and the Waputik Icefield (see GLACIATION) straddling the Great Divide. The name derives from a Stoney First Nations word meaning "it is magnificent." (The Stoney, or Nakoda, live in the eastern foothills of the Rockies.) The falls became...

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