Kitchener

Southern Ontario municipality

Kitchener is a city in southern Ontario, Canada, part of a metropolitan area with neighboring Waterloo.

Originally named Berlin after the German heritage of its settlers, it was renamed during World War I for Lord Kitchener, the British field marshal whose face appeared on famous military recruitment posters.

The tech sector has grown rapidly in Kitchener-Waterloo.

Ontario

Waterloo

Crushing, decisive defeat

tech hub · manufacturing · King Street

LordKitchener

recruitment poster

Sign soliciting volunteers

World War I · conscription · pointing finger · enlistment · volunteers · propaganda · Khartoum · Sudan · imperial · moustachioed

Canada

Ontario

Canada's most populous province

Ottawa · Montreal · Vancouver · Quebec · Calgary · Edmonton · Winnipeg · Halifax · Tim Hortons · Niagara Falls

military

field marshal

Supreme army commander rank

  • commanderPerson with authority over others
  • armyOrganized land-based military
  • strategyPlanned approach to goals

campaigns · officer · regiment · battalion · troops · infantry · artillery · general · uniform · medal

Opposites
military leadership style

Kitchenerconscientious objector

One refusing military service morally

pacifist · Florence Nightingale · Siegfried Sassoon · Bertrand Russell · draft dodger

imperial vs anti-colonial figures

KitchenerMahatma Gandhi

anti-imperialist · Nelson Mandela · independence leader · Mahdi

wwi recruitment/propaganda role

Kitchenerconscientious objector

One refusing military service morally

pacifist · Bertrand Russell · draft dodger · anti-war activist

Phrases
Family

kitchen, kitchens, kitchenette, kitchenware, kitchenettes, kitchenwares

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G