Doon
Doon is a suburban community and former village which is now a part of the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Doon was settled around 1800 by German Mennonites from Pennsylvania, and after 1830 by Scottish immigrants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: place in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Doon, Ontario”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Homer Watson House and Doon Heritage Village.
Homer Watson House
Historic building
Photo: Matt Deres, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Homer Watson House is a historic building.
Doon Heritage Village
Museum
Photo: Pcorb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Doon Heritage Village, located at the Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum, is a picturesque 25-hectare living history village that shows visitors what life was like in the Waterloo Region in the year 1914.
Grand Valley Institution for Women
Prison
Grand Valley Institution for Women is a women's prison in Kitchener, Ontario, operated by the Correctional Service of Canada. In Canada, all offenders sentenced to prison terms of greater than two years serve their time in a federal institution operated by the CSC.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Preston and Kitchener.
Preston
Suburb
Photo: JFVoll, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Preston is a community in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario. Prior to 1973 it was an independent town, incorporated in 1915, but amalgamation with the town of Hespeler, Ontario, the city of Galt, Ontario and the village of Blair formed the new municipality of Cambridge. Preston is situated 6 km east of Doon.
Kitchener
Photo: Allie Caulfield, CC BY 2.0.
Kitchener and neighbouring Waterloo and Cambridge form a tightly-integrated metro area within the larger Region of Waterloo in Southwestern Ontario. At the time of the 2021 Canadian census, the population of the city of Kitchener was 256,885 people and the population of the Region of Waterloo area was 587,165.
Breslau
Village
Photo: JFVoll, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Breslau is a community located within the township of Woolwich, part of the Waterloo Regional Municipality in Ontario Canada. Separated from the city of Kitchener by the Grand River, Breslau takes its name from the German name for the city of Wrocław, Poland. Breslau is situated 9 km north of Doon.
Doon
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.39043° or 43° 23′ 26″ northLongitude
-80.42456° or 80° 25′ 28″ westElevation
307 metres (1,007 feet)Open location code
86MX9HRG+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 472560378OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Doon” goes by many names.
- French: “Doon”
- Irish: “Doon”
- Swedish: “Doon”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Doon”. Photo: Matt Deres, CC BY-SA 3.0.