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The club features golf, curling and tennis facilities. The club was founded in 1929 by members of the Grand River Golf and Country Club. The club was officially opened in 1931, and its golf course architect was Stanley Thompson. The curling facility was opened in 1963 and a tennis facility in 1977. [citation needed]
As of April 2022, there are 85 known disc golf courses in Ontario on the official PDGA Course Directory. [1] Of these, 52 are full-size courses with 18 holes or more and 33 have fewer than 18 holes. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Ontario has 5 courses per million inhabitants, compared to the Canadian average of 6.9.
Kitchener is located in Southwestern Ontario, in the Saint Lawrence Lowlands. This geological and climatic region has wet-climate soils and deciduous forests. Situated in the Grand River Valley, the area is generally above 300 m (1,000 ft) in elevation. Kitchener is the largest city in the Grand River watershed and the Haldimand Tract.
The Walter Bean Grand River Trail (also sometimes shortened as the Walter Bean Trail) is a 76-kilometre (47 mi) [2] multi-use trail that runs along the Grand River in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The trail runs through the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo and is owned and maintained by the cities. [3]
Chicopee Ski & Summer Resort (formerly "Chicopee Ski Club" [citation needed]) is a winter and summer recreation club in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, founded December 29, 1934 (90 years ago) (), [2] [3] as a not-for-profit organisation on 165 acres (0.67 km 2). The Chicopee ski hill has a maximum vertical drop of 200 ft (61 m).
A new proposal in 2010 would study only the merger of Kitchener and Waterloo, with a public referendum on whether the idea should be looked into. Kitchener residents voted 2–1 in favour of studying the merger while Waterloo residents voted 2–1 against. Waterloo city council voted against the study. [70]
Zone and Region map of Ontario. Southern Ontario's 16 zones are organized into 4 regions, outlined and numbered in dark tan on the map. Curling clubs in the Canadian province of Ontario are organized into the Ontario Curling Association in southern Ontario and the Northern Ontario Curling Association in Northern Ontario.
Settlement of the what later became the Township of Waterloo started in 1800 (in an area that is now a part of Kitchener) by Joseph Schoerg (later called Sherk) and Samuel Betzner, Jr. [3] (brothers-in-law), Mennonites, from Franklin County, Pennsylvania. At the time, the upper part of the Grand River Valley was considered deep in the ...