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Virginia Falls: South Nahanni Rirrer 610 38' - L25o 42'<br />
Fenley Hurrter of Long Island, N.Y. undertook an e>ploratory<br />
erpedition to tJ:e South Nahanni i-rr 1928, and was probably ttre first<br />
wtrite man to photograph and neasure the falls. Virginia, his daughter,<br />
was honoured h,y the narlE, which becarc officially adopted in 19b.<br />
(CPCA{ records).<br />
La RonciEre Falls: Hornaday River 690 07', - LzP 55',<br />
Father Enile Petitot (1875) naned La Roncidre Rirrer after tle Frenctr<br />
a&niraI and srtinent geographer, Ia. RonciEre-Ie lbuqz. Houever, tte<br />
river becane known as Hornaday River (as recorded by A.J" Stone,<br />
19m, after Dr. Williarn T. Hornady of ttre lrlew York Zoological Park) .<br />
In 1952, La RonciEre FaIIs r^,ere adopted in recognition of Petitot's<br />
origirnl rwning. (CPCGilI records) .<br />
References:<br />
(1) Files of the Carndian Perrnanent Ccmnittee on Geogr:aphicat<br />
lilanes.<br />
(2) Bad
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