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Yellowhead Pass

Yellowhead Pass proper noun: a mountain pass through the Canadian Rockies, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.

Proper noun

Yellowhead Pass

  1. A mountain pass through the Canadian Rockies, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
    • 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!1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12

Origin of Yellowhead Pass

Believed to be named after Tête Jaune, a fur trapper with yellow hair.

Questions about Yellowhead Pass

What does Yellowhead Pass mean?
Yellowhead Pass means a mountain pass through the Canadian Rockies, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
What part of speech is Yellowhead Pass?
Yellowhead Pass is a proper noun.

Words near Yellowhead Pass in the dictionary

  1. yellowhammer
  2. Yellowhammer State
  3. yellowhammers
  4. yellowhead
  5. Yellowhead County
  6. Yellowhead Pass
  7. yellowheads
  8. yellowheart
  9. yellowhorn
  10. yellowhorns
  11. Yellowhorse

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