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Title	Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery
Description	25 Caroline Street North (Erb & Caroline) CCGG collects and displays works in ceramic, glass, stained glass, and enamel from across the country and internationally. The building was designed by Vancouver architects John Patkau and Patricia Patkau. The columns in front represent kilns. Construction of the gallery began in 1991 and it opened in June 1993. It almost didn't make it. Despite millions of dollars granted by the federal and provincial governments, CCGG ran out of cash in its construction phase and needed an additional $1.5 million from the City of Waterloo to be completed. In a June 1992 editorial, The Record commented: "The $4.68-million Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery is turning into Waterloo's little shop of horrors. Teetering on the edge of almost certain bankruptcy, the gallery is about to become a millstone around the neck of Waterloo taxpayers. [...] "The community has already voted with its pocketbook. Gallery officials had hoped to raise $1 million from individuals and corporations. They have been able to woo less than $100,000. The message is clear." But the City came through with the bailout anyway. Today, all operating expenses are financed from admission fees, memberships, and donations. The newly constructed wooden building behind the gallery near the train tracks is the boarding station for the Waterloo-St. Jacobs tourist train (pictured, in front of the gallery). It missed a scheduled 1996 opening, and after several internal legal squabbles among the group that bought the line, the train began operation in July 1997. It shut down after the 1999 season. Waterloo Region has been talking about runnuing a train service from St. Jacobs to Cambridge (with stops in between) at some point in the future. The corner of Erb & Caroline is the new home of the City of Waterloo's gathering place. It was completed in 1997 and is occasionally used for civic events. Just north of the gallery on Caroline Street you can see Silver Lake and the southern edge of Waterloo Park (pictured). The park was established in 1890 by the newly formed Board of Trade (Chamber of Commerce) and is the home of a small zoo and several playing fields. An ambitious and costly project to dredge Silver Lake is underway. Silver Lake is a reminder of Waterloo's early history as swamp land. Although the water was used by original settler Abraham Erb to power his grist and sawmills, the land itself was so wet that it was nearly unfit for development for many years. The water runs under UpTown Waterloo and reappears outside city hall. The wooden building just north of CCGG (pictured at left; to the right is the Waterloo Public Library) is a facsimile of Erb's original grist mill. Originally scheduled to open at Oktoberfest 97, it was delayed until the spring of 1998 and constructed at a cost of about $125,000 (of which the City paid $75,000).
Size	77.2K
Date	Jun,26,2003

Title	Waterloo Town Square
Description	The opening of the $5 million Waterloo Square (now Waterloo Town Square) in 1961 was hailed as an exciting step forward for the city. At the time, the core of Waterloo was a unattractive mix of old factories and stores -- not the central showpiece residents would have wanted for their town. In 1958, the City announced an undertaking on a scale they believed had no precedent. It would buy up the land between Caroline and King, relocate the industrial occupants, and construct a modern shopping mall that could proudly be displayed as the hub of the city. The old plants were bought up and demolished, as were some residences on Caroline Street. A developer was selected in March 1960, and construction began three months later. Waterloo Square opened for business in November 1961. The developer called the project "one of the most courageous and ambitious ever undertaken by a Canadian or American municipality." Mayor James Bauer was equally ebullient, saying, "In one stroke, the centre will advance the city 50 years and revitalize the main street." In 1969, the Waterloo Chronicle (who was and is a tenant of the building) could write that "In Waterloo Square, this city has one of the most modern downtown shopping malls in the province." Decades later, it's hard to see it through those eyes. The mall may be a step up from old factories, but it too is an aesthetic disaster -- hideous in appearance from all sides, inside and out, and disconnected from everything around it by a moat of concrete. The parking lot -- owned by the City -- is certainly useful, but the mall's design is very unfortunate for what should have been the centrepiece of the city. Canada Life put the mall up for sale in December 1997, asking for $16.5 million, but there were no takers at that price. It seemed Waterloo Town Square would be too big and expensive to tear down and rebuild, but that all seemed to change with a planned $240 million redevelopment that was every bit as ambitious as the one which led to mall's construction. The plan was cancelled in the summer of 2001, and the mall's future is still up in the air.
Size	49.33K
Date	Jun,26,2003

Title	Waterloo Public Library
Description	35 Albert Street Right across Albert Street from the old Carnegie- funded Waterloo Free Library is the current main branch of the Waterloo Public Library. It opened on June 13, 1966, and was built at a cost of over a half-million dollars. The report in the Record on opening day described "orange tile panels on bookstacks in the adult library [that] have a Mayan motif" and balconies on the south and rear sides for summer-time reading (the panels and balconies are both gone). The library had a minor expansion in 1981 and occasional renovations to squeeze out as much space as possible from the building. Previously, this had been the site of the Waterloo Farmer's Market, built around 1910 (before that, the market had been held in the town hall basement). The market closed for good in July 1965 and was torn down to make room for the library. Although it had a long history in Waterloo, the market was not considered to be much of a loss to the city when it was demolished. A Waterloo Chronicle story said there had been times when "the vendors outnumbered the patrons." There was a half-hearted effort made to find a new home for the market, but there was little interest. As one councillor put it, "the city had outgrown the era of the market."
Size	41.84K
Date	Jun,26,2003

Title	Waterloo Recreation Complex
Description	101 Father David Bauer Drive There's a sign for the Rec Complex at the corner of Father David Bauer Drive -- just past the Clay & Glass Gallery on Erb. Before you get to the complex itself, you'll pass by a few other notable, if not beautiful, sights. To the left, you see what is today a bit of an industrial eyesore, but which for much of the 20th century was the site of some of the city's major businesses. Charles Mueller's cooperage -- at one time Canada's largest producer of barrels and kegs (and, as you might expect, a supplier to Seagram) -- moved here in early part of the century. It was sold in 1920 and became Canada Barrels and Kegs Ltd., and later Canbar. The dilapidated remains of the Globe Furniture Company can also been seen to the left. Globe manufactured school, church, and theatre furniture and wood carvings. It operated from 1906 until the early 1950s. The City of Waterloo bought the factory in 1985 and is in the process of dismantling / demolishing it. To the right, the big "bubble" with the brick facade is what remains of the Waterloo Memorial Arena. It opened in February 1947 and was constructed at an estimated cost of $128,000. The city's previous arena had been torn down in 1921, and Waterloo went more than 45 years without a hockey arena. The Memorial Arena was never quite up to engineering standards and was finally condemned and demolished in 1987. Moving from the old to the new, you come to the Waterloo Recreation Complex -- the city's premier public ice arena and swimming facility (pictured, at top). It opened in 1993 and has hosted the Scott Tournament of Hearts (Canadian women's curling championship) and various hockey tournaments and concerts. The pool (the "Swimplex") admits over a quarter-million swimmers each year.
Size	51.05K
Date	Jun,26,2003

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