Canadian Falls

also Horse·shoe Falls (hôrs′sho͞o′, hôr′sho͞o′)

A section, about 670 m (2,200 ft) wide, of Niagara Falls within Ontario, Canada.

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Canadian Falls - a part of Niagara Falls in Ontario

Horseshoe Falls

Ontario - a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada

Niagara, Niagara Falls - waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls

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The Zeppelin was flying very high at the time, and far below he saw the water in the gorge marbled with froth and then away to the west the great crescent of the Canadian Fall shining, flickering and foaming in the level sunlight and sending up a deep, incessant thudding rumble to the sky.

Round they swooped once again over the Canadian Fall, over the waste of waters eastward, until they were distant and small, and then round and back, hurrying, bounding, swooping towards the one gaping spectator.