General Waterloo Region Heritage

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Kitchener-Waterloo circa 1940 as reported in Maclean's Magazine, July 15, 1940.

When these folks want something, they go after it. Right now they want Number Seven Highway paved throughout, between Kitchener and Sarnia. There is a seventeen-mile stretch of gravel that Kitchener folks would like to see covered with more permanent material. If they don’t get action soon, they are quite capable of going out and paving it themselves.

The article also includes a pretty good roll call of the various industrial, commercial and public operations that were active at the time.

Terrific find!  Change the names of manufacturing companies to those of high tech companies and start ups and you could almost write the same article about K-W today.  I hope that K-W never loses it's "can do" spirit.