Waterloo

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Waterloo is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is next to Kitchener City, and one of the smallest of the three cities within the Municipality of Waterloo. It is a part of the assigned 675,000 acre land to the Iroquois alliance that consists of the League of Six Nations. The city has a yearly nine-day festival in the twin cities of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. This particular event is based on the German Oktoberfest, and is usually coined as Canada's Greatest Bavarian Festival. It begins on the Friday which precedes the Canadian Thanksgiving, and runs until Saturday after.

Waterloo is a haven for those who are into culture and arts. The city is home to numerous galleries which feature different artistic creations that range from symphonies to jewelry and painting. It will be good to visit the main cultural tourist attractions of Waterloo city: Button Factory, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Earth Sciences Museum, Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games, Brubacher House Museum, Don Heritage Crossroads, and Optometry Museum of Visual Science.

The very best places to go shopping in the city are the Cambridge Centre, Conestoga Mall, Elmira Farmers Market, Downtown Cambridge Business Improvement Association, Kitchener Downtown Business Improvement Area, Kitchener Market, and Southworks Mall. Cambridge Centre has around 140 shops and services; Conestoga Mall boasts of world-class shopping and entertainment with a lot of retail outlets; Southworks Mall offers unique shopping experience in historic Galt. It is the largest antique market within Canada.

There are a lot of sites within the city to go to for rest and relaxation. Places such as the African Lion Safari, Waterloo Central Railway, Aboretum, U of G, Bell Homestead National Historic Site, Bingemans Big Splash, Bingemans FunworX, and Brick Brewing Co. Limited, are amongst the places which could be a good "escape" from the continuous stresses of daily life.

The economy of the city of Waterloo is greatly drive by its service-based sector. The biggest companies within the area are Wilfrid Laurier University, Manulife Financial, University of Waterloo, and Sun Life Financial. Because of the abundance of insurance companies which are based in the area, the city is often called "The Hartford of Canada." It likewise has a very strong sector in technology with numerous high-tech firms. The leading business within this particular area is Research in Motion, the makers of Blackberry. Also included within this roster are: Maplesoft, Dalsa, MKS Inc., Sandvine, Descartes Systems and Open Text Corporation.