Doon Heritage Village
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.Photo: Pcorb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: history and living history museum in Ontario, Canada
- Address: 10 Huron Road, N2P 2R7
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grand Valley Institution for Women and Homer Watson House.
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. Grand Valley Institution for Women is situated 430 metres west of Doon Heritage Village.
Homer Watson House
Historic building
Photo: Matt Deres, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Homer Watson House is a historic building, which is situated 1½ km southeast of Doon Heritage Village.
Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower
Tower
Photo: Distant highway, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower was built in 1926 in Kitchener to commemorate the arrival of the Pennsylvania Dutch to Southwestern Ontario. It was conceived by William Henry Breithaupt, who wanted to heal wounds of nationalism fomented in the city during World War I. Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower is situated 1½ km east of Doon Heritage Village.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Doon and Preston.
Doon
Suburb
Photo: Matt Deres, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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 7 km east of Doon Heritage Village.
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.
Doon Heritage Village
- Categories: open-air museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
43.40176° or 43° 24′ 6″ northLongitude
-80.43755° or 80° 26′ 15″ westOperator
Region of WaterlooOpen location code
86MXCH26+PXOpenStreetMap ID
way 144763562OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q5297146
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