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The name change failed to assuage outside suspicion of the city and its German population, propelled partly by opponents unsuccessfully petitioning the Ontario Government to stop the change from proceeding as well as the election of an anti-conscription candidate in Waterloo North in the 1917 federal election.
It was later renamed the Kitchener and Waterloo Street Railway following the city's official name change, with the commission also being renamed to the Kitchener Public Utilities Commission (PUC). [174] In 1923, the successor of the Preston and Berlin Street Railway, the Grand River Railway, built a new mainline which bypassed downtown Kitchener.
"The Left Coast" – a name shared with the West Coast of the United States, referring to the region notably leaning politically left. [6]"British California" – a play on the initials of the province, referring to its similarities with California in terms of culture, geography (particularly in the Lower Mainland), politics, and demographics.
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada. Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases , slogans , sobriquets , and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
†Japanese name during Korea under Japanese rule (1910–1945). The Korean name is unchanged. ‡Name change in English due to replacement McCune-Reischauer with the Revised Romanization method in 2000. The Korean name is unchanged.
Aside from the name rebranding, the Arc Ontario also announced that it had implemented the largest wage increase in the company's history, having first taken effect on Sept. 9 of last year.
The lengthy process involved in the change — districts have known since November 2022 that they must move on from Native American nicknames and imagery — was a thoughtful one, everyone was ...
Galt's visit in 1827 brought wider acceptance to the name change. Initially serving local farmers, Galt's industrial development in the late 1830s eventually earned it the nickname "The Manchester of Canada". [13] It remained the area's main town until Berlin [14] overtook it at the beginning of the 20th century.