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Apr 6, 2017 · It’s hard to imagine that one of the most successful post-secondary educational systems in the world started in an abandoned manufacturing plant just half a century ago. Back then, options for Ontarians after they finished high school were much more limited than they are today.
Sep 9, 2020 · The general consensus: a beautiful building “looks like Buckingham palace” but austere, being described as “strict af” and one respondent reporting that they “heard they have showers in a separate...
Ontario's current public university and college system was essentially established in the late 1960s; however, both systems have since changed, and the objective of colleges increasingly includes degree-granting powers.
History. In 1967, the college was founded as Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology by the government of Ontario to grant diplomas and certificates in career-related, skills-oriented programs. The college started to offer degree programs in B.Eng. Mechanical Systems Engineering [3] and B.A. Tech Architecture - Project and Facility ...
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The earliest archaeological evidence of Indigenous people in Ontario dates to between 10,500 and 9,500 years ago. Part of Cambridge was built on the site of at least one Neutral village, occupied between 1280 and 1340 CE. The village was revealed in 1987–88 during excavation for a subdivision on Myers Road in the city’s south end. At the time of Eu...
The Haudenosaunee (also known as Six Nations) allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War. After the conflict, they were displaced from their traditional territory in upstate New York and needed a new home. Mohawk leader Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) and other representatives of the Six Nations Confederacy pressured the Crown for a...
In the early 1800s, German-speaking Mennonites from Pennsylvania settled around what would become the Towns of Hespeler and Preston. The area around Galt was sold primarily to Scottish settlers. Many milling businesses set up along the Grand and Speed rivers. One on the Speed River was named Cambridge Mills. The area around it adopted that name, un...
The population of Cambridge grew 6.6 per cent between 2016 and 2021, the two most recent censusyears, as compared to 2.5 per cent between the census years of 2011 and 2016. In the 2016 census, 30.1 per cent of Cambridge residents cited Canadian as their ethnicity, followed by English (26.9 per cent of residents), Scottish (19.9 per cent), Irish (18...
A location on the Speed River in Preston has operated as a mill site since 1807. Now used by the P&H Milling Group, the facility is considered the oldest place of continuing business in Waterloo Region. Edward Snyder was a potato farmer near Hespeler, on Beaverdale Road (now at Cambridge’s northern end). In 1935, he began selling potato chips in pa...
Cambridge has a mayor, eight city councillors, and two regional councillors. The city government handles matters such as roads, parks and recreation, and the fire department. The Waterloo regional government oversees transit, water, public health, and social services.
Preston, Galt, and Hespeler each have historic downtowns. The modern commercial hub of the city is located between the three, along Hespeler Road. Through adaptive reuse, one historic mill (Dickson Mill) is now a restaurant, and another is the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Other attractions include a farmer’s market founded in 1830...
The largest of the early schools in the community, the Galt Grammar School, opened in 1852 with the Dubliner William Tassie as headmaster starting in 1853 at the site of what later became the Galt Collegiate. The school gained widespread recognition and attracted students from across North America.
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T he real history of a college is a thread spun, out of the lives of those who have lived together within its walls. It is, however, only during the last century that the community life of St Catharine's has been recorded with any degree of fulness; down to the nineteenth century at least much more is known of “Catharine men” after they ...
