We drove from our campsite in Minnesota to the Canadian border to see Kakabeka Falls in Ontario, Canada! The impressive 130 ft waterfall is nicknamed “Niagara of the North”. The name “Kakabeka” comes from the Ojibwe word gakaabikaa “waterfall over a cliff”. We learned from Wikipedia that the Legend of Green Mantle is about an Ojibwe chief who upon hearing news of an imminent attack from the Sioux tribe instructs his daughter, Princess Green Mantle, to devise a plan to protect her people. She enters the Sioux camp along the Kaministiquia River and, pretending to be lost, she bargains with them to spare her life if she will bring them to her father’s camp. Placed at the head of the canoe, she instead leads herself and the Sioux warriors over the falls to their deaths, sparing her tribe from the attack. The legend claims that one can see Green Mantle when looking into the mist of Kakabeka Falls, a monument to the princess that gave her life to save her people. I absolutely love visiting Canada…it is one of my favorite places! So glad we could drive up from Minnesota with our boys!
