Weber Street

The street is likely named after one of the Germans from Pennsylvania who migrated to the region {{cite web |url=http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I18200&tree=generations |title=Henry Weber |author= |date= |website=Waterloo Region Generations |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}{{cite web |url=http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I18207&tree=generations |title=David Weber |author= |date= |website=Waterloo Region Generations |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}{{sfn|Stroh|1930}}{{sfn|Stroh|1931}}{{sfn|Uttley|1975|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=3kuO5hiG2xEC&pg=PA10 10]}} It is the only remaining major street in Kitchener Waterloo with a name of German origin or named for German settlers in the region.{{cite web|url=https://historicallyspeakingkitchener.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/old-kitchener-street-names/|title=Old Kitchener Street Names|author=Karen Ball-Pyatt}}

File:Weber Construction 2014.jpg

In 2013–14, the Region of Waterloo widened the last remaining two-lane stretch of roadway between College Street in Kitchener and Union Street in Waterloo, a project which resulted in the demolition of dozens of homes and other buildings along the street.{{cite news |url=https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2013/06/04/weber-street-widening-to-start-this-month.html |title=Weber Street widening to start this month |first=Jeff |last=Outhit |date=June 3, 2013 |newspaper=Waterloo Region Record |access-date=March 13, 2021}} The same project also resulted in the creation of the Weber Street Railway Underpass, grade separating the roadway and sidewalks from the Guelph Subdivision railway line, the latter of which runs overhead. The Guelph Subdivision forms a component of the Canadian National Railway mainline west of Toronto. The segment of the Guelph Subdivision which crosses Weber Street has been owned by Metrolinx since 2014.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2014/09/29/go_buys_kitchener_track_west_of_georgetown.html |title=GO buys Kitchener track west of Georgetown |first=Tess |last=Kalinowski |date=September 29, 2014 |newspaper=The Toronto Star |access-date= March 13, 2021}}

Weber Street's southern terminus is at the southern stub of King Street in Kitchener, and its northern terminus is at its intersection with King Street at the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market south of St. Jacobs. In addition to its two endpoints, Weber Street also crosses King Street in Waterloo, being generally northeast of King Street in Kitchener and southern Waterloo, and southwest of King Street in northern Waterloo.

Weber weaves through residential and commercial areas of Waterloo and Kitchener and is agricultural at the northern terminus.

The road is broken up into four parts due to the geographical direction of the road:

Kitchener

• Weber Street East - Florence Avenue to Queen Street North
• Weber Street West - Queen Street North to the Kitchener-Waterloo Boundary near Raitar Avenue

Waterloo

• Weber Street South - Kitchener-Waterloo Boundary near Raitar Avenue to Erb Street East
• Weber Street North - Erb Street East to King Street North south of St. Jacobs, Ontario

Weber Street intersects with a number of east–west thoroughfares:

• Conestoga Parkway
• Ottawa Street
• Frederick Street
• Victoria Street
• Erb Street
• Bridgeport Road
• University Avenue
• Columbia Street
• KingL (in three different places)
• Northfield Drive

• St. Jacobs Farmers' Market
• Bridgeport Plaza
• Kitchener station
• Downtown Community Centre (Kitchener)
• Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex (on nearby East Avenue)
• St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery
• Eastwood Collegiate Institute

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• {{cite web

|url=http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/

|title=Waterloo Region Generations

|ref=WatGen

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• {{cite book

|title=A History of Kitchener, Ontario

|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofkitchen0000uttl

|url-access=registration

|last=Uttley

|first=William Velores (Ben)

|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

|date=October 1, 1975

|edition=reprint of the original The Chronicle Press, Waterloo, 1937

|isbn=9780889200241

|quote=In the fall of 1805, the owners of the 448-acre lots on which the city stands were: [..] Henry Weaver, Lot 16 [..] From their ancient home, probably in 1806, his young son Abraham set forth on horseback for Upper Canada to select a farmsite from his father's purchases [p.10] Benjamin Eby was of the leader type. [..] He sold his son-in-law, David Weber, 219 acres at the upper part of his big lot. [pp. 21-22] A site on the southwest corner of Weber and Young Streets was purchased in 1854, from David Weber for $200. [p.108]

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• {{cite journal

|title=Reminiscences of Berlin (now Kitchener) - Part I

|first=Jacob Gaukel

|last=Stroh

|author-link=Jacob Gaukel Stroh

|volume=Eighteenth Annual Report

|journal=Waterloo Historical Society

|date=1930

|url=http://www.whs.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1930.pdf

|pages=175–207

|quote=After the railway was built David Weber moved to Weber Street, named after him, to a location opposite the present Zion Church.

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• {{cite journal

|title=Reminiscences of Berlin (now Kitchener) - Part II

|first=Jacob Gaukel

|last=Stroh

|volume=Nineteenth Annual Report

|journal=Waterloo Historical Society

|date=1931

|url=http://www.whs.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1931.pdf

|pages=282

|quote=Weber Street was named after David Weber, as stated.

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