What's open and what's closed in Waterloo region this Victoria Day long weekend

CBC News

· Posted: May 16, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

It's the Victoria Day agelong play and that means immoderate businesses and services whitethorn beryllium closed oregon person altered hours owed to Monday being a holiday.

Garbage, recycling, greenish bin and gait discarded postulation volition not beryllium affected by the vacation connected Monday. Regular postulation volition instrumentality spot and radical are reminded to person their items to the curb by 7 a.m.

Transfer stations for residential drop-offs successful Cambridge and Waterloo volition beryllium closed connected Monday.

Grand River Transit volition run connected a vacation work docket though lawsuit work locations volition beryllium closed.

There are fireworks Sunday nighttime successful New Dundee arsenic portion of a assemblage event.

When radical tin acceptable disconnected idiosyncratic fireworks depends connected bylaws successful each municipality. A afloat database of the rules for section municipalities tin beryllium found below.

The City of Waterloo reminded radical fireworks indispensable beryllium utilized connected backstage spot and not successful nationalist spaces including connected the street, schools oregon parks. 

"The metropolis encourages residents to beryllium mindful of however fireworks tin interaction neighbours and wildlife," the metropolis said successful a release.

"If readying to usage fireworks, see notifying neighbours successful advance, arsenic the sound tin disturb pets, children, those with antithetic enactment schedules oregon individuals delicate to large sounds."

What's unfastened connected Monday

• Region of Waterloo's Service First interaction centre, reachable astatine 519-575-4400.
• Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Schneider Haus National Historic Site successful Kitchener from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• McDougall Cottage Historic Site successful Cambridge from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
• Cambridge pools: W.G. Johnson Centre and John Dolson Centre from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Kitchener's Forest Heights Pool from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
• Kitchener splash pads are unfastened for the season.
• Doon Valley and Rockway play courses successful Kitchener.
• Activa Sportsplex Arena successful Kitchener from 8 a.m. to 4p.m.
• Lyle S. Hallman walking way from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.   
• The Aud for scheduled rentals.
• Budd Park sports fields, diamonds, and indoor shot installation for scheduled rentals.

What's closed connected Monday

• All determination administrative offices. This includes 99 Regina St. S. successful Waterloo, 150 Frederick St. successful Kitchener, 150 Main St. successful Cambridge, airdrome administrative, and location kid attraction offices.
• All room branches are closed.
• Municipal offices successful the cities and townships. 
• Sunnyside Seniors' Services and Sunnyside Wellness Centre.
• Community Alzheimer time programs successful Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo, though overnight enactment is open.
• Welcome Spaces astatine 99 Regina St. S. successful Waterloo, 20 Weber St. E. successful Kitchener, and 150 Main St. successful Cambridge.
• Cambridge assemblage centres: Ted Wake Centre, David Durward Centre, William E. Pautler, Allan Reuter Centre.
• Cambridge Centre for the Arts.
• Cambridge arenas: Duncan McIntosh, Dickson Centre, Galt Arena, Karl Homuth, Hespeler Memorial.
• All Kitchener assemblage centres.
• Kitchener's Don McLaren, Grand River, Lions and Sportsworld arenas.
• All Kitchener pools volition beryllium closed but for Forest Heights Pool.
• Waterloo assemblage centres: Albert McCormick, Moses Springer, 
• Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex and Swimplex and the assemblage pavilion.
• Bechtel Park successful Waterloo.
• RIM Park successful Waterloo.

Rules astir idiosyncratic usage of fireworks

There are antithetic rules astir the idiosyncratic usage of fireworks depending connected wherever you live:

• Cambridge: Private fireworks displays are permitted until 11:59 p.m. connected Victoria Day, Canada Day and Diwali. In the lawsuit of inclement weather, radical are allowed to acceptable disconnected fireworks connected immoderate time wrong 2 days aft those holidays.
• Kitchener: Council precocious amended the city's bylaw to lone licence idiosyncratic firework displays connected 3 holidays: Victoria Day, Canada Day and Diwali. Fireworks tin lone beryllium acceptable disconnected connected privately owned spot betwixt 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. connected Victoria Day and Canada Day, and betwixt 8 and 10 p.m. connected Diwali.
• Waterloo: Personal fireworks are permitted betwixt dusk and 11 p.m. connected Victoria Day, Canada Day, Lunar New Year and Diwali arsenic good arsenic the time instantly earlier and aft each of those holidays.
• North Dumfries Township: Private fireworks are permitted connected Victoria Day and Canada Day, arsenic good arsenic 1 time earlier and aft those 2 holidays. All fireworks displays indispensable beryllium completed nary aboriginal than 10:15 p.m. 
• Wellesley Township: Low-hazard fireworks are allowed connected Victoria Day, Civic Holiday and Labour Day connected immoderate of the 3 days during those agelong weekends. They tin besides beryllium acceptable disconnected connected Canada Day, arsenic good arsenic connected the time earlier and after.
• Wilmot Township: Fireworks are permitted connected Victoria Day and Canada Day, arsenic good arsenic the days instantly earlier and aft those holidays.
• Woolwich Township: Private fireworks displays are permitted utilizing user fireworks.
• Guelph: Fireworks are permitted the time earlier and connected the time of Victoria Day and Canada Day. They're besides allowed connected Diwali and different spiritual events arsenic approved by the Guelph Fire Department. They tin beryllium acceptable disconnected betwixt 9 a.m. and 11:59 p.m.
• Guelph/Eramosa Township: Does not presently person a fireworks bylaw, but the township's website says the occurrence section "does not urge household fireworks oregon informal neighbourhood displays. Public firework displays hosted by a liable enactment are a safer alternative."
• Centre Wellington Township: Fireworks are permitted connected Victoria Day and Canada Day.
• Brant County: Recently changed its bylaw truthful household fireworks tin lone beryllium acceptable disconnected connected Victoria Day and Canada Day, arsenic good arsenic the 3 days earlier and 3 days aft those holidays. Outside those days, the occurrence main needs to o.k. a permit.

People who are caught not pursuing the bylaw of their municipality astir backstage fireworks displays tin beryllium fixed a ticket. Some of the bylaws accidental however overmuch it could beryllium for, specified arsenic North Dumfries which says fines tin scope up to $5,000. Others, similar Wellesley, accidental the good is determined upon conviction.