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Kicking Horse Pass, the Glossary

Kicking Horse Pass (el.) is a high mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Americas of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border, and lying within Yoho and Banff national parks.^[1]

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Borders of Alberta
Borders of British Columbia
Mountain passes of Alberta
Mountains of Yoho National Park
Rail mountain passes of Alberta
Rail mountain passes of British Columbia

Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Banff National Park

Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Kicking Horse Pass and Banff National Park are Canadian Rockies.

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Big Hill

The Big Hill on the Canadian Pacific Kansas City main line in British Columbia, Canada, was the most difficult piece of railway track on the Canadian Pacific Railway's route.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Columbia Highway 1

Highway 1 is a provincial highway in British Columbia, Canada, that carries the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH).

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Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.

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Canadian Rockies

The Canadian Rockies (Rocheuses canadiennes) or Canadian Rocky Mountains, comprising both the Alberta Rockies and the British Columbian Rockies, is the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains.

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CBC Television

CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.

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Continental Divide of the Americas

The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. Kicking Horse Pass and Continental Divide of the Americas are Great Divide of North America.

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Dave Broadfoot (December 5, 1925 – November 1, 2016) was a Canadian comedian and satirist.

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Divide Creek

Divide Creek is a short creek near Kicking Horse Pass on the British Columbia/Alberta border (also the border between Yoho National Park and Banff National Park). Kicking Horse Pass and Divide Creek are Great Divide of North America.

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Field, British Columbia

Field is an unincorporated community of approximately 169 people located in the Kicking Horse River valley of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, within the confines of Yoho National Park.

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Golden Triangle (cycling route)

The Golden Triangle is a major cycling route located in western Canada along the border between British Columbia and Alberta, forming a triangle with Lake Louise, Golden, and Radium Hot Springs as its points.

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Golden, British Columbia

Golden is a town in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, west of Calgary, Alberta, and east of Vancouver.

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James Hector

Sir James Hector (16 March 1834 – 6 November 1907) was a Scottish-New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist.

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John Palliser

John Palliser (29 January 1817 – 18 August 1887) was an Irish-born geographer and explorer.

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Kicking Horse River

The Kicking Horse River is in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia, Canada.

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Lake Louise, Alberta

Lake Louise is a hamlet within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.

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List of Rocky Mountain passes on the continental divide

This is a list of Rocky Mountain passes on the Continental Divide of the Americas. Kicking Horse Pass and list of Rocky Mountain passes on the continental divide are Great Divide of North America.

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Mountain pass

A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge.

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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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National Topographic System

The National Topographic System or NTS is the system used by Natural Resources Canada for providing general purpose topographic maps of the country.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Palliser expedition

The Palliser expedition, officially the British North American Exploring Expedition, explored and surveyed the open prairies and rugged wilderness of western Canada from 1857 to 1860.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Royal Canadian Air Farce

The Royal Canadian Air Farce was a comedy troupe that was active from 1973 to 2019.

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Ruling gradient

The term ruling grade is usually used as a synonym for "steepest climb" between two points on a railroad.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical acts.

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Stoney Nakoda First Nation

Stoney Nakoda First Nation (Îyârhe Nakoda) is a Nakoda First Nations band government Alberta, Canada.

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Summit

A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.

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Television show

A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.

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Trans-Canada Highway

The Trans-Canada Highway (French: Route Transcanadienne; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast.

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Wapta Lake

Wapta Lake is a glacial lake in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies of eastern British Columbia, Canada. Kicking Horse Pass and Wapta Lake are Canadian Rockies.

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Yellowhead Pass

The Yellowhead Pass is a mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Americas in the Canadian Rockies. Kicking Horse Pass and Yellowhead Pass are borders of Alberta, borders of British Columbia, Great Divide of North America, mountain passes of Alberta, mountain passes of British Columbia, national Historic Sites in Alberta, national Historic Sites in British Columbia, rail mountain passes of Alberta and rail mountain passes of British Columbia.

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Yoho National Park

Yoho National Park is a national park of Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicking_Horse_Pass

Also known as Kicking Horse Canyon, Kickinghorse Pass.

Kicking Horse Pass, the Glossary

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See also

Borders of Alberta

Borders of British Columbia

Mountain passes of Alberta

Mountains of Yoho National Park

Rail mountain passes of Alberta

Rail mountain passes of British Columbia

References