The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario , Canada . It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916.
The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census. The metropolitan area, which includes the neighboring cities of Waterloo and Cambridge , has 451,235 people, making it the eleventh largest Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) in Canada and the fifth largest CMA in Ontario .
It is the seat of the Waterloo Regional Municipality , and is adjacent to the smaller cities of Cambridge to the south, and Waterloo to the North. Kitchener and Waterloo are often referred to jointly as "Kitchener-Waterloo" (K-W), although they have separate municipal governments. Including Cambridge , the three cities are known as "the tri-cities".
VICTORIA PARK:-
Kitchener's oldest and most important outdoor park is Victoria Park, in the heart of downtown Kitchener . Numerous events and festivities are held in this park.
A cast-bronze statue of Queen