Yellowhead Pass
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English
Etymology
Believed to be named after Tête Jaune, a fur trapper with yellow hair.
Proper noun
- A mountain pass through the Canadian Rockies, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
- 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
- Both men were astonished (and I imagine, pardonably proud) when I told them that our Canadian National road over the Rocky Mountain Summit through Yellowhead Pass above Jasper, is almost exactly only one-third as steep as Shap Bank!