Sites in Waterloo Region opening their doors to the public on Saturday

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

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