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Kitchener

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Kitchener
/kich"euh neuhr/, n.
1. Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome), 1850-1916, English field marshal and statesman.
2. a city in S Ontario, in SE Canada. 131,870.

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City (pop., 2001: 190,399), southeastern Ontario, Canada.

It is situated in the Grand River valley, southwest of Toronto. Founded by Bishop Benjamin Eby and settled by German immigrants с 1807, it was incorporated as a city in 1912. It was known successively a Sand Hill, Ebytown, and Berlin before being renamed in honour of H.H. Kitchener in 1916. The boyhood home of W.L. Mackenzie King is now preserved in Woodside National Historic Park.

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      city, regional municipality of Waterloo, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It is situated in the Grand River valley, 60 miles (95 km) west-southwest of Toronto. Founded by Bishop Benjamin Eby and settled by German immigrants about 1807, the community was known successively as Sand Hill, Ebytown, and Berlin before being renamed after the British field marshal Lord Kitchener in 1916. It is an important industrial, financial, and distribution centre in one of Canada's most densely populated areas. Economic activities include meat-packing, brewing and distilling, tanning, furniture making, and the manufacture of textiles, shoes, rubber products, and appliances. The closely knit cultural unit of Kitchener-Waterloo supports a symphony orchestra, philharmonic choir, little theatre, and art society. The boyhood home of Mackenzie King, former Canadian prime minister, is preserved in Woodside National Historic Park. Inc. village, 1854; town, 1870; city, 1912. Pop. (2006) city, 204,668; metropolitan area, 451,235.

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  • Kitchener — of Khartoum (spr. kittschĕnĕr), Herbert, Viscount, engl. General, geb. 24. Juni 1850 in Crotta House (Irland), 1871 Offizier, seit 1882 in der ägypt. Armee, 1886 88 Gouverneur des Gebietes am Roten Meer, 1892 Oberbefehlshaber (Sirdar) der ägypt.… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

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  • Kitchener — Folgende Personen tragen den Namen Kitchener: Herbert Kitchener, 1. Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850–1916), britischer Feldmarschall Lord Kitchener Darrell Kitchener (* 1943), australischer Zoologe Lord Kitchener (Komponist) (1922 2000) Realname …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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