Waterloo turns 150

The Record

Laura Thompson
May 28, 2007

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Grahame Farquhar has seen a lot of changes in the forty or so years he's called Waterloo home.

He still remembers what it was like when the site of the Waterloo Town Square Mall was a factory that made farm machinery -- before the city core transformed from a manufacturing centre to a commercial one.

He also remembers the smells that came from the Seagrams Distillery, which has since become condos and home to the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

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