Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It covers 136.89 sq km (52.85 sq mi) and has a population of 219,000 people (2012 estimate). It is the seat of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, which includies the neighboring cities of Waterloo and Cambridge.

The land where Kitchener is located today was given to the indigenous tribes of the Six Nations by the British as reward for their loyalty to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War. The area totalled 240,000 hectares.

Between 1796 and 1798, the Six Nations sold a 38,000 hectare parcle to Colonel Richard Beasley, a Loyalist. The land transferred ownership from Beasley to German Mennonite families. One of the Mennonite families that settled here was the Schneiders, whose house built in 1816 is still standing today, at the heart of Kitchener.

In 1816, the government of Upper Canada created the Township of Waterloo. Then in 1833, the neighboring town of Berlin was founded, and named after Berlin, Germany. It became the county seat of the newly created County of Waterloo in 1853, and was incorporated as a village. It was reincorporated as a city in 1912. In 1916, following the First World War, Berlin was renamed Kitchener, after the late British Field Marshall The 1st Earl Kitchener. Today Kitchener and Waterloo are often jointly referred as Kitchener-Waterloo, K-W, or the Twin Cities.

Visiting Kitchener

Highway 401 is the main highway connecting Kitchener with major cities in the region including Toronto and Detroit.

Places of Interest in Kitchener

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