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Ear Falls is a community and township located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, on the right bank of the English River near the outlet of Lac Seul. It is located along Highway 105, north of Highway 17 and Vermilion Bay, about halfway between Highway 17 and Red Lake, or about northwest of Thunder Bay. Ear Falls is entirely surrounded by Unorganized Kenora District. ==Etymology== There are different versions of how the settlement was named after the eponymous falls. The following are three versions of the story found in the museum archives: # Ear Falls was once known as ''Otahwaka Powitek'' to the Ojibwa band. This area was believed to be haunted by the spirit of a giant beaver which lived between the upper and lower falls. It was said that when the beaver was swimming, its ears could be seen rising and falling in the foaming water. # Legends have produced the names of many local spots, and one such name is Ear Falls. According to information provided by Gerald Bannatyne, a collector of artifacts, aboriginal people living on Goose Island were travelling past the rapids which are now known as Ear Falls, when they saw something that frightened them. They brought more men back with them to investigate. The 'monster' turned out to be a large tree root stuck in the rocks. The spot became known as 'Big Ear', which later became 'Ear Falls'. # Many, many years ago, local aboriginals had named Ear Falls ''Otahwaka Powitek'' because the water had worn the rock ledge at the lip of the falls roughly in the shape of a human ear. The early French fur traders' name for the falls was ''Portage D'Oreille'', or literally speaking, "carrying place of the ear". Upper Ear Falls, about 1.5 miles upstream, was drowned out when the lake level was raised some when the power dam came into operation, and nothing of it remains today except dangerous ripple rapids with a very strong current. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ear Falls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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