formerly Grand Falls
Part of a series of cataracts and rapids on the Churchill River , Newfoundland, Canada.
The falls drop 245 ft (75 m) and are 200 ft (60 m) wide. They power one of Canada's largest hydroelectric stations. Visited in 1839 by John McLean of the Hudson's Bay Company , the cataracts were called Grand Falls until 1965, when both falls and river were renamed for Winston Churchill , who died that year.