St. Jacobs
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St. Jacobs is an unincorporated suburban community in the township of Woolwich in Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. It is located north of the city of Waterloo. It is a popular location for tourism, due to its quaint appearance, retail focus, and Mennonite heritage. Waterloo Region is still home to the largest population of Old Order Mennonites in Canada, particularly in the areas around St Jacobs and Elmira. They are often seen on the local roads using their traditional horse and buggy transportation; many also use horses to pull the implements in their farm fields.
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Worth seeing in and around St. Jacobs
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St. Jacobs Farmers' Market
St. Jacobs Farmers' Market is a farmers' market and flea market in Woolwich, Ontario, Canada.
2.6 km · farmer and flea market in Woolwich, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
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Getting to St. Jacobs
- Airports
- John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 65 km · Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 76 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 162 km
- Hamilton → St. Jacobs13811 km · quickest by air, 31h 40m · NZ$3,100–4,790
- Toronto → St. Jacobs95 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · C$14–19
- Windsor → St. Jacobs243 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · C$37–49
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No local-transport research exists yet for St. Jacobs
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for St. Jacobs. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are numerous ground transportation operators between Kitchener and Pearson who operate door-to-door services and scheduled minibus services from several large hotels in Kitchener.
From Wikivoyage: Kitchener, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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