Northward in Kitchener in Waterloo Region, Ontario — Central Canada (North America)

Woodside

Photographed by Tim Boyd, March 31, 2024

1. Woodside Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada, spent his adolescent years at Woodside, where he lived from 1886 to 1893. The country setting he enjoyed during this formative period among books and family mementos fostered his later spiritual, moral and intellectual development. Close ties with his parents, sisters and brother shaped his image of the ideal family life. The home, originally constructed in 1853, along with its picturesque gardens, also recalls the daily life of a genteel family in the late 19th century.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, dixième premier ministre du Canada, passe ses années d'adolescence à Woodside, entre 1886 et 1893. Dans ce décor champêtre, entouré de lives et de souvenirs des siens, il s'épanouit dans une atmosphère propice à son développement spirituel, moral et intellectuel. Les liens d'affection qui l'unissent à ses parents, à ses deux surs et à son frère forment son image d'une vie de famille idyllique. La demeure, construite à l'origine en 1853, ainsi que ses pittoresques jardins témoignent du mode de vie quotidien d'une famille bourgeoise de la fin du XIXe siècle.

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Government of Canada - Gouvemement du Canada

Erected 2004

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Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Government & Politics. In addition, it is included in the Canada, Historic Sites and Monuments Board series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1853.

Location. 43° 27.851′ N, 80° 28.844′ W. Marker is in Kitchener, Ontario, in Waterloo Region. It is in Northward. It can be reached from Wellington Street North. The marker is on the grounds of Woodside National Historic Site, on the path to the house from the parking lot. The entrance to the site is accessed from Spring Valley Road, 150 metres from Wellington Street North. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Kitchener ON N2H 5L5, Canada. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Huron-Perth-Waterloo-Wellington Area

and in Southwestern Ontario.

It is also in Central Canada.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once a British colony,

the Viceroyalty of New France,

the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

Woodside Marker (on the left) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Boyd, March 31, 2024

2. Woodside Marker (on the left)

and Rupert’s Land.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies: William Lyon Mackenzie King (here, next to this marker); World Trade Center (approx. 1.2 kilometers away); William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1874-1950 (approx. 1.3 kilometers away); Waterloo County Registry Office (approx. 1.4 kilometers away); Waterloo County (approx. 1.4 kilometers away); St. Mary Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Roman Catholic Parish (approx. 1.6 kilometers away); Kitchener Cenotaph (approx. 1.6 kilometers away); Free Church and Cemetery (approx. 2.1 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Kitchener.

Also see . . . Historicplace.ca - Woodside National Historic Site.

Woodside National Historic Site of Canada is a picturesque, wooded estate, set in the midst of a modern suburb in the north-east part of the city of Kitchener. It includes a one-and-a-half-storey house, reconstructed in 1942 as a mid-19th-century house and furnished in the style of the 1890s.

(Submitted on April 4, 2024, by Tim Boyd of Hamilton, Ontario.)

Woodside National Historic Site image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Boyd, March 31, 2024

3. Woodside National Historic Site

Entrance to Woodside National Historic Site (Spring Valley Rd. and Wellington St. North) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Boyd, March 31, 2024

4. Entrance to Woodside National Historic Site (Spring Valley Rd. and Wellington St. North)

Woodside, ca 1890s image. Click for full size.

5. Woodside, ca 1890s

National Archives of Canada (public domain)

Woodside in 2024 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Boyd, March 31, 2024

6. Woodside in 2024

Credits. This page was last revised on April 8, 2024. It was originally submitted on April 4, 2024, by Tim Boyd of Hamilton, Ontario. This page has been viewed 226 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on April 4, 2024, by Tim Boyd of Hamilton, Ontario. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.