Meanings
proper noun
- 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
Believed to be named after Tête Jaune, a fur trapper with yellow hair.
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Yellowhead Pass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yellowhead%20Pass
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