Grand Valley Institution for Women
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.- Type: Prison
- Description: women’s prison in Canada
- Also known as: “Établissement pour femmes Grand Valley” and “Grand Valley Institution For Women”
- Address: 1575 Homer Watson Boulevard
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Doon Heritage Village and Homer Watson House.
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. Doon Heritage Village is situated 430 metres east of Grand Valley Institution for Women.
Homer Watson House
Historic building
Photo: Matt Deres, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Homer Watson House is a historic building, which is situated 2 km east of Grand Valley Institution for Women.
Fairview Park Mall
Shopping center
Photo: JFVoll, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fairview Park is a large shopping mall of 120 stores in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, owned and managed by Westcliff Management Ltd. The anchor store is a Walmart Supercentre, with two large anchor spaces, with one last occupied by Sears, divided into multiple… Fairview Park Mall is situated 2½ km north of Grand Valley Institution for Women.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Doon and Kitchener.
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.
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.
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 Grand Valley Institution for Women.
Grand Valley Institution for Women
- Categories: prison for women and government building
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
43.40184° or 43° 24′ 7″ northLongitude
-80.44287° or 80° 26′ 34″ westOpen location code
86MXCH24+PVOpenStreetMap ID
way 280711696OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=prisonWikidata ID
Q5595221
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tswana—“Grand Valley Institution for Women” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “大谷地妇女机构”
- Chinese: “大谷地妇女监狱”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مؤسسة جراند فالى للمراه”
- Italian: “Grand Valley Institution for Women”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Établissement pour femmes Grand Valley”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Valley Institution for Women”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grand Valley Institution for Women”
- Tswana: “Grand Valley Institution for Women”
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Highlights include Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum and Forward Church.
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