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Galt is a community in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario on the Grand River. Prior to 1973, it was an independent city, incorporated in 1915, but amalgamation with the village of Hespeler , the town of Preston and the village of Blair formed the new municipality of Cambridge.
Railway construction and operation in the area preceded the Lake Erie and Northern by over fifty years. The railway boom in Canada West (the administrative predecessor to the province of Ontario) from the 1850s onward resulted in a number of east–west lines owned by competing companies: the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) lines through Galt (which became a major ...
Canadian Pacific Kansas City's Galt Subdivision is CPKC's 114.6 mile long section of its Montréal-Detroit freight corridor. It is located in Southern Ontario , Canada . Getting its name from the historic City of Galt (now the City of Cambridge) that it passes through, the track runs from the bustling hub of Toronto , Ontario , to London, Ontario .
The Paris-Galt Moraine are a pair of glacial moraines left behind by the Laurentian glaciation, in southern Ontario. The moraines run parallel, and sometimes merge. [1] [2] The Moraine system extends from the Caledon area to an area southwest of Port Rowan — a distance of approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi). [1]
Galt Arena Gardens, opened in 1922, is the oldest operating arena in Ontario. Cambridge has 365 ha of parkland, 99 parks, over 140 sports fields, and many golf courses. As well, the city has over 70 km of urban and natural trails, 18 km of which run along the Grand and Speed Rivers .
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Gordon Ralph Renwick was born on February 13, 1935, in Galt, Ontario, the eldest of three children to Donald and Daisy Renwick. [1] [2] He was an aspiring baseball pitcher while attending the Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School.
A map of the Great Western Railway in Ontario, Canada, as it was at its height in 1879. The railway merged with the Grand Trunk Railway in August 1882, and ultimately became a major part of Canadian National Railway's southern Ontario routes. The majority of the mainlines remain in use.