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The Regional Municipality of Waterloo (Waterloo Region or Region of Waterloo) is a metropolitan area of Southern Ontario, Canada. It contains the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo (KWC or Tri-Cities), and the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich. Kitchener, the largest city, is the seat of government.
The Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has a mixed style of buildings originally located in small towns and farming communities starting from the 19th century. After 1900, commercial and industrial buildings also appeared.
Waterloo Region is situated on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee Peoples and is located on Haldimand Tract. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Haldimand Tract, which consists of ten kilometres of land on both sides of the Grand River, was promised to the Six Nations of the Grand River in 1784 by the Haldimand ...
Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum is a campus of historical attractions and preservation facilities, including the Doon Heritage Village, the Waterloo Region Hall of Fame, and the Waterloo Region Curatorial Centre. The campus of facilities is the largest community museum in Ontario.
Louis Jacob Breithaupt was born on 3 March 1855 in Buffalo, New York, the son of Catharine Hailer and Philip Ludwig "Louis" Breithaupt. [1] Louis Jacob moved to Berlin, Canada West (later renamed Kitchener) with his family in 1857 and was mayor of Berlin himself from 1888 to 1889.
She was the daughter of Friedrich Gaukel, a prominent innkeeper and early landowner in Waterloo Township who was originally from Württemberg, which is now also a part of Germany. [ 4 ] On 7 May 1870, Jacob Stroh married Elisabeth Seiler, with whom he had eight children: Ida, Ella, Edward, Edgar, Edna, Olivia, Albertha and Nathaniel. [ 1 ]
Kranz was born on 13 June 1834 at Lehrbach in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, [1] which was a part of the German Confederation.He was the only son of Charles Kranz. [1] He was educated at the Polytechnische Schule of Darmstadt [1] and came to the United States with his father in 1851.
Indigenous people have long lived in and around what is today Kitchener-Waterloo. During the retreat of the last glacial maximum, the Waterloo Region was isolated by the ice to the north, east, and west and by Lake Maumee III to the south, [6] however once the ice retreated the landscape opened up for nomadic populations to hunt, camp, and thrive; though not many [quantify] sites from the ...