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Your Heritage Waterloo Region

What is Waterloo Region's "heritage"? Is it the German Mennonites? The British pioneers? The aboriginal people of the Six Nations? Does our heritage include newer cultural influences from Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, South America, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe? Or is it our industrial and corporate story: milling, Schneider's, insurance, or the Blackberry?

Yes.

Your Heritage Waterloo Region (YHWR) is about all of these things, and many more. It's about you, your neighbourhood, your community and organizations. Your Heritage Waterloo Region is a doorway to all the elements that give this Region a rich and complex flavour. Here, individuals and groups can explore every aspect of the unique spectrum of Waterloo Region, sharing their stories, ideas and r...

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Kitchener hosted Mennonite World Conference assembly in 1962

Mennonite World Conference is a communion (Koinonia) of Anabaptist-related churches linked to one another in a worldwide community of faith for fellowship, worship, service, and witness. So states the tag line for current Mennonite World Conference (MWC) publicity. The global body, now with more than 1.5 million members in national conferences in 75 countries in five continental regions, includes Brethern in Christ and most of the Mennonite conferences represented in Waterloo Region (Old Order Mennonites and some conservative groups excepted by their choice).

MWC holds a global assembly about every seven years. The 7th assenbly in MWC's history, held in Kitchener in 1962 and for t...

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