Change Kitchener's name back to Berlin?

[jeffster]

It would cost a lot of people, especially businesses a lot of money. Think of how many things you have to change your address on when you move from one residence to another. Everybody would have to do that all at once. Businesses have a lot of things with their address on from websites to business cards to legal documents. I don't think that it is worth it. Also if you do change the name, then some future provincial government decides that Kitchener and Waterloo should be forcibly amalgamated under the name Waterloo and you would have to do it all over again.

That's assuming that Waterloo would be chosen. Even then, you could get people getting upset with the name Waterloo and what most people (in the world) connect it to: Battle of Waterloo -- war -- and the 65,000 casualties, many who went missing. So just by that, Waterloo is a poor choice. No one today would name a city after a war.

Better idea is to start fresh. But use due diligence when renaming, or you'll get people upset a few years down the road.