Baden, Ontario

Updated on Dec 17, 2023

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Elevation 352 m Province Ontario		Municipality Wilmot, Ontario

- summer (DST) Eastern Time Zone (UTC-4)

Baden is a community in Township of Wilmot, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It has a population of around 4500 and was named after Baden-Baden in Germany. (Approximate Population as of 2011 as per township statistics is 4,553)

Map of Baden, ON, Canada

The area is the site of the Baden Tower, a huge television, radio and communications tower located on top of one of the Baden Hills. This tower is the transmitter for CKCO-DT, the CTV affiliate for Kitchener.

Much of the area consists of farmlands and there are pine forests in the area. The local high school, Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School, is located just outside the town.

History

Baden is home to the historic Castle Kilbride, built in 1877 by James Livingston, co-founder of a successful linseed oil company who went on to represent the area in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons. In 1993, Castle Kilbride was purchased and restored by Wilmot Township. The township spent $6.2 million on the project for which it incurred a debt that is to be repaid by 2013. The castle was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1994 and Wilmot Township's administrative offices and council chamber are housed in an addition to the original building.

Baden was also the home town of Sir Adam Beck who went on to pioneer hydro-electric power, the visible results being the hydro-electric generation plants located in Niagara Falls. Beck has a park named after him in his hometown, as well as an elementary school within the Waterloo Region District School Board.

On June 30, 2016 the first Statue in a series of statues as part of The Prime Ministers Statue and Educational Resource Project was erected. The first statue was of Sir John A. Macdonald.