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- noun a part of Niagara Falls in Ontario
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Examples
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The double-decker boats ferry people from both sides of the Niagara River to the base of the Horseshoe Falls under separate agreements with New York state and Ontario.
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Below her, water rushed over the brink of Horseshoe Falls, falling 188 feet into the Lower Niagara River.
Woman Swept Over Niagara Falls Still Not Found; Searchers Find Man's Body Instead 2011
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There he is in the water at the bottom of Horseshoe Falls.
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Witnesses say that a man jumped into the icy waters on the Canadian side yesterday, plunging over the 180-foot Horseshoe Falls and incredibly survived.
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The falls straddle the border between New York state and Ontario province near Buffalo: the American Falls on the U.S. side, the Horseshoe Falls in Canada, with the smaller Bridal Veil (also in the United States) between them.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has blasted and excavated, filled and graded; it has added eight acres to Goat Island, between the Bridal Veil and Horseshoe Falls, implanted sensors to detect rocks coming loose and reshaped the Horseshoe's American edge; the Canadian falls is now 400 feet narrower than it used to be.
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It shows Niagara Falls among other sites, except the production company showed Horseshoe Falls.
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We saw the Horseshoe Falls lit up as well on the Canadian side because in Canada, it's what they call Remembrance Day.
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: An amazing story here, rescuers pulled a woman from the Niagara River yesterday -- just about a frozen river, too -- about 100 feet from the edge of Canada's Horseshoe Falls.
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Canadians rescue a woman on the brink of plunging over Canada's Horseshoe Falls.
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