A farmer from Embro sells his pig farm and then purchases one of the biggest houses he can find in north Stratford two or three blocks in from Lake Victoria. A retiring couple, both civil servants from Ottawa, move to this area of Stratford and find a perfect condo which suites their needs. One of the reasons they picked Stratford is because it has shorter winters. Tech people working for “Google” in Kitchener fifty kilometers away are moving to north Stratford and make the commute or partially working from home. These are people with young families who find value in being able to do things like family tubing at the “River Valley Golf Course” in the winter time and being able to take part in the annual Optimist Trout Derby.
A movie director working in Toronto buys a big old house near the new “Villas of Avon” condos. On Saturday mornings, he purchases his coffee at Balzac’s downtown. Often times in the summer, he takes his out of town guests down to Lake Victoria to cheer on the Dragon Boat races. In the winter, he has learned to enjoy ice fishing on “Wildwood Lake”.
Why are so many people now focusing their energies on finding a place in North Stratford to live? Well, it’s the little things like the absence of signalized intersections, except for a few exceptions, it’s proximity to the Stratford Hospital, and the presence of tree lined streets which have not changed all that much in the last forty or fifty years. Let us now help you in your search.
* To get to North, North-West Stratford from the downtown core, you can take either the “William Hutt Bridge” on Waterloo Street North or the “Huron Street Bridge”. Did you know that the “Huron Street Bridge” was built in 1885 and it is still the only double arched aquaduct road bridge in North American still in use for automotive traffic!
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