11-29-2014, 01:30 PM
I like the idea, but I'm also very proud to say I'm from Kitchener. Especially to those from Toronto! We have quite the little place here in "The Region".
A neat Kitchener story: A few years ago, I was at a rather run-down factory in the suburbs of New York City working on some machinery there. The tech from their plant and I were chatting about Canada, and when he heard I was from "Kitchener", he went off on this tangent about the history of 1st Earl Kitchener, why the city was named that - basically, a bunch of stuff I didn't know, and I hardly expected to hear from a grunt at a factory. It was kind of humbling that he knew all of that.
A neat Kitchener story: A few years ago, I was at a rather run-down factory in the suburbs of New York City working on some machinery there. The tech from their plant and I were chatting about Canada, and when he heard I was from "Kitchener", he went off on this tangent about the history of 1st Earl Kitchener, why the city was named that - basically, a bunch of stuff I didn't know, and I hardly expected to hear from a grunt at a factory. It was kind of humbling that he knew all of that.