32 Facts About Kitchener ON

Kitchener ON was known as Berlin until a 1916 referendum changed its name.

Kitchener ON is located in Southwestern Ontario, in the Saint Lawrence Lowlands.

Kitchener ON is the largest city in the Grand River watershed and the Haldimand Tract.

Kitchener ON has a humid continental climate of the warm summer subtype ; large seasonal differences are seen, usually warm and humid summers and cold to occasionally very cold winters.

Kitchener ON stands on a part of the Haldimand Tract, lands in the Grand River valley purchased in 1784 by the British from the Mississaugas in order to grant it to the Six Nations for their allegiance during the American Revolution.

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Homes built by the next generation of these families still stand as of March 2021, on what is Pioneer Tower Road in Kitchener ON and have been listed as historically important; the John Betzner homestead and the David Schoerg farmstead were erected circa 1830.

Kitchener ON was in many cases within Ontario the earliest adopter, or one of the earliest adopters, of many municipal institutions which later became commonplace.

The ABCs movement in Kitchener ON began in the 1890s with the passage of the 1894 Public Parks Act transferring management of the town's parkland from a committee of the town council to a parks board, an initiative which ultimately led to the creation of Victoria Park.

Cities that are now part of Waterloo Region, Berlin, now Kitchener ON, has the strongest German heritage because of the high levels of settlement in this area by German-speaking immigrants.

Kitchener ON built what later became the Walper House in Berlin.

However, by 1919 most of the population of what would become Kitchener ON, Waterloo and Elmira were "Canadian"; over 95 percent had been born in Ontario.

The Kitchener ON–Waterloo Oktoberfest is a remembrance of the region's German heritage.

Kitchener ON's Westmount took a number of its street names from the model subdivision in Montreal, such as Belmont Avenue.

Some notable companies headquartered in Kitchener ON include: Waterloo Brewing Company, D2L, Vidyard, and ApplyBoard.

Kitchener ON's economy has diversified to include new high-value economic clusters.

The Kitchener ON Market is one of the oldest consistently operating markets in Canada.

In 2009, the City of Kitchener ON began a project to reconstruct and revitalize the main street in Kitchener ON's downtown core, King Street.

The Kitchener ON office is a large hub for the development for Google's Gmail application.

Kitchener ON was part of Waterloo County until 1973 when amalgamation created the Regional Municipality of Waterloo.

Mayor of Kitchener ON is Berry Vrbanovic, who was elected to his first term in October 2014.

Kitchener ON has several public high schools, with Kitchener ON–Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School, founded in 1855, being the oldest.

Kitchener ON is home to independent music label, Busted Flat Records which features the music of many Kitchener ON–Waterloo based musicians.

Kitchener ON–Waterloo's Oktoberfest celebration is an annual nine-day event that started in 1969.

Kitchener ON was very proactive and visionary about its transportation network in the 1960s, with the province undertaking at that time construction of the Conestoga Parkway from the western boundary across the south side of the city and looping north along the Grand River to Northfield Drive in Waterloo.

Unlike most southern Ontario cities whose streets follow a strict British grid survey pattern, Kitchener ON's streets are laid out in a complex radial pattern on the Continental models most familiar to the German settlers.

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Kitchener ON was one of the few places in Ontario where the settlers arrived in advance of government surveyors.

Waterloo's quadrants, created by the intersection of King and Erb Streets, roughly correspond to compass directions, but Kitchener ON's quadrants, delineated by King and Queen Streets, do not resemble compass directions whatsoever.

In 2000, Kitchener ON Transit was merged with Cambridge Transit and put under the management of the Region of Waterloo, becoming known as Grand River Transit .

Major iXpress stations in Kitchener ON were Grand River Hospital, Fairview, and the Charles Street Terminal.

In June 2011, the Waterloo Region council approved the Stage 1 plan for a single-line light rail transit system between the existing bus terminals at Conestoga Mall in north Waterloo and Fairview Park Mall in south Kitchener ON, with adapted bus rapid transit connecting through to downtown Galt in Cambridge.

Kitchener ON is served by GO Transit buses and trains, the latter operating as the GO Kitchener ON line.

Freight trains in Kitchener ON are operated by the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway.