Cambridge, Ontario
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State : | Canada | |
Province : | Ontario | |
Regional Municipality : | Waterloo | |
Coordinates : | 43 ° 22 ′ N , 80 ° 19 ′ W | |
Height : | 329 m | |
Area : | 113 km² | |
Residents : | 126,748 (as of 2011) | |
Population density : | 1,121.7 inh / km² | |
Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | |
Postal code : | N1, N3 | |
Mayor : | Doug Craig | |
Website : | www.cambridge.ca |
Cambridge [ ˈkeɪ̯mbɹɪdʒ ] is a city in Ontario , a province of Canada .
It is located about 90 km west of Toronto , the largest city in Canada. Cambridge is one of the tri-city cities : Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo on the Grand River .
Cambridge had a population of 126,748 in 2011 and, like most of Ontario's cities, is English-speaking. Even so, Cambridge has several schools that teach French.
477,160 people live in the metropolitan area with the other cities of Kitchener, Waterloo, North Dumfries and Woolwich .
Economy and Infrastructure
Cambridge has a wide variety of companies. In 1988 Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada opened a plant in the city. Today there are two factories with around 4,500 employees in the city. This makes Toyota the city's largest employer. Other larger companies that have a location in the city are Process Group Inc. , Gerdau Ameristeel , ATS Automation Tooling Systems , Loblaw Companies Limited , Challenger Motor Freight Inc. , Sutherland-Schultz Inc. , Canadian General-Tower Ltd. , Frito-Lay Canada , Babcock and Wilcox , Rockwell Automation , Tenneco Cambridge , Centra Industries and Com Dev . In the service industry, Langdon Hall , Coronation Dental Specialty Group , Gore Mutual Insurance Co., Cowan Insurance Group, and Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies are known.
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education
The non-denominational English language schools are operated by the Waterloo Region District School Board . This runs 26 elementary schools and five secondary schools, which lead to the twelfth grade, the high school graduation. High schools include the 150-year-old Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School and Southwood Secondary School ; Glenview Park Secondary School ; Preston High School ; Monsignor Doyle Catholic Secondary School , St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School, and the Jacob Hespeler Secondary School .
The Catholic schools are operated by the Waterloo Catholic District School Board . The Waterloo Catholic District School Board operates 15 elementary and two secondary schools as well as one French teaching school in the city.
Colleges
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture Campus is right on the river. The building is also known as the Tiger Brand Building . In addition to lecture halls and a library, the campus has a theater, fitness studio and a “Design at Riverside” gallery. This gallery is one of two publicly funded Canadian architecture- focused galleries . 380 students are enrolled on campus.
Another college is the Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning . The university focuses on engineering in the field of robotics, process automation, communication and information technology.
Sons and daughters
- Tim Brent (* 1984), ice hockey player
- Adam Butcher (born 1988), actor
- Louie DeBrusk (born 1971), ice hockey player
- Brad Shaw (born 1964), ice hockey player and coach
- Scott Walker (born 1973), ice hockey player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Census Profile Cambridge. Statistics Canada, accessed August 15, 2012 .