Overview

Established in 1865 this small, Roman Catholic, mainly undergraduate university is federated with the University of Waterloo. Its buildings are situated on the University of Waterloo campus in northwest Waterloo. It offers liberal arts degrees, which are granted by the University of Waterloo. Waterloo, which is adjacent to the city of Kitchener and often referred to as Kitchener-Waterloo, has some pleasant sandstone buildings and the largest community museum in Ontario. It is also at the heart of Canada’s Technology Triangle, the Silicon Valley of Canada. Home to BlackBerry Software, Waterloo is an entrepreneurial city with a high density of start-ups and two major universities, Wilfrid Laurier and Waterloo. The tightly-integrated metro area of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge has a small international airport and is just 74km west of Hamilton and 116km east of Toronto.