Waterloo, Ontario

Waterloo, Ontario is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is very close to the city of Kitchener, Ontario. Kitchener and Waterloo are often referred to together as "Kitchener-Waterloo", or "KW". They are sometimes called "the Tri-City" (to include the City of Cambridge).[1] All three have separate city governments.

The University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University are in Waterloo. The headquarters of mobile phone maker BlackBerry is there.[2]

Waterloo has a population of 121,436 (as of 2021).[3] University of Waterloo is marked the 4th best university in Canada. (Wilfred Laurier is 27th)[4]

References

  1. ↑ Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures, ed. Alexander Freund (Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2012), p. 254
  2. ↑ "Head of BlackBerry Messenger latest exec to leave company". CBC News; Kitchener-Waterloo. CBC News. Feb 11, 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 and 2016 censuses – 100% data". Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Top Universities in Canada.




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