User:Elizabethacker/Hespeler, Ontario

Downtown
The Hespeler Library was originally an early twentieth century Carnegie library. In the early 2000s, it was determined that an expansion was needed. Rather than constructing another structure onto the preexisting building, a glass enclosure was built around the existing library. The architectural firm that was in charge of constructing the glass addition to the library, Kongats Architects located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a selected winner of the 2004 awards of excellence presented in Canadian Architect Magazine.

Due to many of the structures in downtown still being the original constructions from the 1900s, many TV shows and Movies have been filmed using the buildings along and surrounding Queen Street and the general Downtown area. Some popular TV series that is widely known to have been filmed in Hespeler, Ontario is the werewolf drama titled Bitten, and 11.22.63, a Stephen King novel TV adaptation. These shows assisted in the development of the sewer and waterways running underneath Queen street by influencing the tearing up and repaving of the street in order to accommodate the film crews.

Education[edit]
Public English-language schooling is provided by the Waterloo Region District School Board, which operates 26 elementary and five secondary schools in Cambridge.

Publicly funded Catholic education is available through schools operated by the Waterloo Catholic District School Board.

Hespeler has several elementary schools and one high school, Jacob Hespeler Secondary School, named after the town's founder. A chemistry teacher at Jacob Hespeler Secondary School, Yvonne Clifford, was the 2015 recipient of the Chemical Institute of Canada Beaumier Award for High School/CEGEP Chemistry Teachers. Hespeler is also home to the post-secondary Heritage Baptist College and Heritage Theological Seminary.

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture campus is located in nearby Galt in the Riverside Silk Mill, also known as the Tiger Brand Building. Inside there is a theatre, a fitness room, and the gallery "Design at Riverside", which is one of two publicly funded galleries dedicated to architecture in Canada. The School of Architecture is home to 380 students who live, study, and learn within the Cambridge community.