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Dark-eyed junco soars to top in vote for Kitchener's official bird • Dec. 23, 2024, 6:46 AM ET (CBC)
Waterloo, Kitchener declare snow events as winter storm moves into region • Dec. 23, 2024, 2:07 AM ET (CBC)
Kitchener man arrested by Chatham-Kent police after reported altercation • Dec. 21, 2024, 7:49 AM ET (CBC)
Holiday food drive at Kitchener school raises 8,000 meals for The Food Bank of Waterloo Region • Dec. 19, 2024, 12:07 AM ET (CBC)
2 teens charged with mischief after false call about stabbing in Kitchener park • Dec. 17, 2024, 3:07 AM ET (CBC)
Kitchener
KitchenerVictoria Park, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Kitchener, city, regional municipality of Waterloo, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It is situated in the Grand River valley, 60 miles (95 km) west-southwest of Toronto. Founded by Bishop Benjamin Eby and settled by German immigrants about 1807, the community was known successively as Sand Hill, Ebytown, and Berlin before being renamed after the British field marshal Lord Kitchener in 1916. It is an important industrial, financial, and distribution center in one of Canada’s most densely populated areas. Economic activities include meat-packing, brewing and distilling, tanning, furniture making, and the manufacture of textiles, shoes, rubber products, and appliances. The closely knit cultural unit of Kitchener-Waterloo supports a symphony orchestra, a philharmonic choir, a little theater, and an art society. The boyhood home of Mackenzie King, former Canadian prime minister, is preserved in Woodside National Historic Park. Inc. village, 1854; town, 1870; city, 1912. Pop. (2011) 219,153; Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo metro. area, 496,383; (2021) 256,885; Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo metro. area, 575,847.

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