29 Facts About Kitchener Ontario

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

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

Kitchener Ontario 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 Ontario 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.

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

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The ABCs movement in Kitchener Ontario 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 Ontario, has the strongest German heritage because of the high levels of settlement in this area by German-speaking immigrants.

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

Eleven years later, the more than 2000 Germans in Berlin, Kitchener Ontario, started a new event, Friedensfest, commemorating Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian war.

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

Kitchener Ontario'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 Ontario include: Waterloo Brewing Company, D2L, Vidyard, and ApplyBoard.

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

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

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

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

Province of Ontario built a new provincial courthouse in downtown Kitchener, on the block bordered by Frederick, Duke, Scott and Weber streets.

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

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

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

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

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

Kitchener Ontario 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.

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

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

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Major iXpress stations in Kitchener Ontario 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 Ontario, with adapted bus rapid transit connecting through to downtown Galt in Cambridge.

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

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