Municipal tourism leads with scenic Grand River frontage tying the historic cores together. It is the outdoor spine locals point to when
Walk or drive through Cambridge long enough and Grand River frontage comes up. Municipal tourism leads with scenic Grand River frontage tying the historic cores together. It is the outdoor spine locals point to when explaining why the amalgamation still feels like river towns.
Saturday mornings still orbit the Cambridge Farmers' Market at 40 Dickson Street beside City Hall in the Galt area, a market the city dates to about 1830. Cambridge Summer Live! fills warm evenings with free concerts and movie nights. Hill 60 Park turns up when residents are asked to help pick a new playground. Service Cambridge handles the unglamorous errands, from licences to service requests, and the Holiday Market lands on the civic calendar each winter. Between the rivers and the market stalls, the city feels less like a suburb of somewhere else and more like neighbouring mill towns that finally share a tax bill.
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