Sites in Waterloo Region opening their doors to the public on Saturday
Posted Sep 16, 2017 05:00:21 AM.
Last Updated Sep 15, 2017 01:44:31 PM.
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A beautiful day to discover and explore our Region.
This is the 15th year for “Doors Open Waterloo Region,” which allows visitors to experience interesting sites, places and historic buildings throughout our Region. This year, there are 50 on the list to visit.
“I thought it might be a nice round number to coincide accidentally, the way we did it, with Canada 150 and Ontario 150, we just happened to land on 50 sites. There’s a lot of places, and of course we don’t expect people to run around and see all of them, but you’ll have to just pick your favourites if you see anything that’s good,” explains co-ordinator Karl Kessler.
The theme for the tour is “Identity and Innovation.”
“We’ll have lots of places that highlight the people of, different people of Waterloo Region, but also that we make up the fabric of the Region. We do have the technology sites and the science sites the way we usually do, because we have lots of those in our Region. But we’ve also taken it in a few different interesting directions, with some sites that are innovative that we wouldn’t necessarily think of when we think of the word innovation.”
Kessler also explains that when it comes to picking the sites every year, they have a few favourites that are open, but it also comes down to him going on Google maps, looking at our Region, and thinking, ‘hey, what is that building? It looks kind of cool.’
The event is a free, drop-in event, with most places being open from 10 a.m to 5 p.m.
More information can be found here.
List of sites:
44 Gaukel Street, Kitchener
Agfa HealthCare and Cora Building
Ayr Public School
Button Factory Arts
The Carmel of St.Joseph
The Cedars Worship Centre
CIGI Campus
Col. J.A McIntosh, DSO, ED Armoury
The Communitech Data Hub
The Communitech Hub
Detweiler Meetinghouse
Dunfield Theatre Cambridge
Fashion History Museum
Findaway Equestrian Services Inc
Galt Carnegie Library Building
Google Kitchener-Waterloo office
Heritage Mausoleums, Woodland Cemetery
Hespeler Community Church
Holy Transfiguration Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church
The Imperial Suites
ION Operations, Maintenance and Storage Facility
The Islamic Centre of Cambridge
KidsAbility Centre for Child Development
Kitchener-Waterloo Gurdwara
Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro Inc
Knox’s Galt Presbyterian Church
Knox United Church
Language Lessons at St. Louis Adult Learning and Continuing Education Centre
Lazaridis Hall
Livingston Prebyterian Church and Baden Masonic Centre
MatinSimmons Architects Inc
McDougall Cottage
McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine
Middleton Water Pumping Station
Old Hespeler Town Hall
Ontario Christian Gleaners
Ontario Drive & Gear Limited
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Polocorp
Ram Dham Hindu Temple and Brahmvidya Yogashram
St. Andrew’s Hespeler Presbyterian Church
SRM Architects Inc
University of Waterloo Library Special Collections & Archives
University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy
University of Waterloo Science Teaching Complex
Waterloo County Gaol and Governor’s House
Waterloo Masjid
Waterloo Pioneers Memorial Tower
Wilfrid Laurier University Library
Young Chapel and Heritage Mausoleum, Mount View Cemetery