Cambridge (2001 population 110,372)^{[http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/popdwell/Table-CSD-P.cfm?T=1&PR=35&SR=51&S=1&O=A]} is located on the Grand River and Speed River in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

A city was formed around 1973 when the city of Galt merged sustaining a towns of Preston & Hespeler & area of the town of Waterloo & Northerly Dumfries. Whenever merger plans were 1st announced, the concerted city was to exist as known as Galt, however Prestin & Hespeler with success petitioned the province to instead give a city a recently title, to exist as selected by a referendum on options submitted per trio members. The ruffled Galt submitted 'Blair', when Preston & Hespeler combined to back 'Cambridge', fallowing 'Cambridge Mills', an early title for the award that became Preston.

A foremost city manager of Cambridge was Claudette Millar, world health organization at a instance was one of a couple female city manager, & at 35 a immature city manager, inside Canada.

In May 17, 1974 flooding on the Grand River was and so unbearable it filled city streets by having the water system to a depth of astir quartet feet. Innumerous businesses & homes were severely damaged.

Within 1986, Toyota opened a plant within Cambridge, which employs 3500 population & is by far a city's big employer. Many more industrial corporations likewise call for Cambridge page, including Automation Tooling Sytems, Frito-Lay Canada (formerly Hostess), Babcock and Wilcox, and Norstar Aerospace.

The satellite campus of Conestoga College is located in a city, & a University of Waterloo School of Architecture has moved to downtown Cambridge.

Earned a nickname "City of Ghosts" due to the numbers of dull of spirit sightings.

Demographics

A ethnic makeup of the city is: White: 90.2% South Asian: 2.9% Black: 1.6%

A religious produce-higher is: Protestant: 39.8% Catholic: 37.1% Christian Orthodox: 1.1% Other Christian: Two.2% Muslim: 1.5% Hindu: 1.2% No religion: Xv.3%

Transport
Roads
Cambridge straddles Highway 401, with interchanges at Townline Road (Exit 285), Franklin Boulevard (Unfair Exit - 284), Hespeler Road (Exit 282), Shantz Hill Road/King Street Kitchener (Exit 278), Fountain Boulevard/Homer Watson Blvd., Kitchener(Exit 275), & Cedar Creek Road (Exit 268); within proficient traffic, these are the cause of an hour to 90 proceedings to Toronto.

Highway 8 travels through the city as Shantz Hill Road, King Street (Preston), Coronation Boulevard, & Dundas Street, linking Cambridge to Kitchener and Waterloo in the north, & Hamilton in the south. Highway 24 runs through Cambridge when Hespeler Road (a previous Queen Street & Guelph Avenue access into Hespeler were by-passed in the Nineties), A river Street, & Ainslie Street, connecting to Guelph in the northeast and Brantford in the south.

Public transport

Since 2000, public transport throughout a Region of Waterloo has been provided by Grand River Transit, which was created by a merger of the previous Cambridge Transit & Kitchener Transit.

GRT work a total of bus routes within Cambridge, leash of which travel outside of the city: presently the 52 & 61 buses start to southern Kitchener, while the iXpress limited-stop express route diarrhea from either Cambridge across Kitchener northward of Waterloo.

Intercity Service is served by Greyhound Lines, from the Terminal touching Highway 401 and Hespeler Road. Commuter Service to & from either either Toronto is the key routing, & there come no local trips are permitted to or even from Kitchener. Coach Canada, who sooner or later took all over Hamilton Street Railway's Canada Coach Lines from Trentway-Wagar, however redo most each ii hours in a period of the daylight between Hamilton and Kitchener, and connect to Niagara Falls. Equally noted beneath, more servics use at times been cancelled on top a go decade in a region, & between more centres, like Guelph, Brantford, Elmira, and Tillsonburg. Railways
Although rattler serving a Toyota factory are a most common sight around Cambridge, the city now has there is no rider rail service. A nigh VIA Rail stations in Kitchener station and Guelph station, are on the northern route, spell Brantford, Ontario on a southern route in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor . Public conveyance modems from either Cambridge to the Kitchener station own improved since Grand River Transit's creation & expansion, however to a Guelph & Brantford stations come non-wanting, especially fallowing the dying of the Overland Coaches Van service between Guelph and Simcoe, Ontario in early 2004.

A virtually all well-accessible GO Transit railway station is Milton station. City council member & public petitions keep around known as for the extension of Last trains to Cambridge, however now Last don't project to last beyond already-announced bus links, & Greyhound Lines have not provided connexion services too.

Air
A nighest aerodrome to Cambridge is the Region of Waterloo International Airport in nearby Breslau, but when these are the thriving general-aviation field, it has (as of 2005) scheduled flights just to Detroit. Virtually all air traveler have either Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport or Hamilton's John C. Munro International Airport. No lasting public shipping links from either Cambridge to any one airdrome.