Waterloo Region Trivia

GENERAL HISTORY

100

The earliest European settlers to this region in the late 1700s who spoke Pennsylvania German.

Mennonites

200

Waterloo Region sits within this tract of land granted to the Six Nations. 

Haldimand Tract (1784). 

3 block of land sold by 1798.
Block 1 includes Preston & Cambridge 
Block 2 is Kitchener & Waterloo
Block 3 includes Woolwich Township

300

This railway linked Berlin, Ontario to Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal and Windsor in 1857. 

Grand Truck Railway (1857). 

400

This was a primary feature of the landscape when settlers first arrived.

A) Swamps
B) Dense wooded forest
C) Bears and wolves
D) Indigenous peoples 

All of them!

500

The treaty that encompasses Waterloo Region.

A) Treaty No. 9

B) Upper Canada Land Surrenders

C) Between the Lakes Treaty

D) Williams Treaty

Between the Lakes Treaty (1782) 

CAMBRIDGE

100

This city used to be 4 separate towns. 

Preston, Hespeler, Galt & Blair (1973).

200

This town lost the bid to be Waterloo county government seat to Berlin in 1853.

Galt. 

300

The primary industries in Galt, Preston and Hespeler

Textiles and knitting mills

400

This woman was a minor land developer and neighbourhood planner with a famous last name in Cambridge. 

Florence Dickson

178 acres of Dickson Hill in 1890s

500

The reason so many things are named Dickson in historic Galt. 

William Dickson

KITCHENER

100

This was a previous name for the City of Kitchener. 

Berlin 

200

The year Berlin changed it's name to Kitchener. 

1916

300

The number of women mayors elected in Kitchener.

 1

Edith MacIntosh (1914 - 2004)

Served as May 1975-75 and Councillor 1966 -1974. 

Consumer advocate & hosted consumer rights and education radio show for 17 years

400

This famous Group of Seven artist painted the portrait of Jeremiah Suddaby which hangs in the entrance of Suddaby School today. 

Alexander Young Jackson 

500

One of the first commercial tavern/inn buildings was built at this corner in 1830.

Varnum's Inn, Phineas Varnum
King St & Queen St
Has been to site of a tavern/inn/hotel ever since!

WATERLOO

100

This man was an original Mennonite settler in what is now Waterloo (and now has a brew/pub named after him!)

Abraham Erb 

(Abe Erb)

200

This Waterloo industry was established because of all the fresh spring water in the town. 

Brewing and distilling.
Kuntz Brewing
Seagram Distillery
Waterloo Brewing

300

This secondary industry was a favourite investment pastime of Joseph E. Seagram. 

Thoroughbred horse racing. 

His stables (located on Bridgeport Road) won 15 Queen's & King's Plates by 1919. 

400

This type of insurance was pioneered in Waterloo in the 1860s.

Mutual insurance. 

• Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Company (1863): area's first, later becoming part of Economical Insurance.
• Ontario Mutual Life Assurance Company (1868):  first life insurance company in Waterloo, later becoming Clarica and now part of Sun Life.

500

How many women mayors have been elected in the City of Waterloo? 

5! 

Marjorie Carroll (1977 - 1988)
Joan McKinnon
Lynn Wolstencroft
Brenda Halloran
Dorothy McCabe (current)