KITCHENER


Meaning of KITCHENER in English

City (pop., 2001: 190,399), southeastern Ontario, Canada.

It is situated in the Grand River valley, southwest of Toronto . Founded by Bishop Benjamin Eby and settled by German immigrants с 1807, it was incorporated as a city in 1912. It was known successively a Sand Hill, Ebytown, and Berlin before being renamed in honour of H.H. Kitchener in 1916. The boyhood home of W.L. Mackenzie King is now preserved in Woodside National Historic Park.

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