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Conestoga College is a public college in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, that offers diplomas, certificates and degrees in various programs. It has several campuses in the region, including Doon, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph, and a large international student population.
A Conestoga wagon is a large and heavy horse-drawn vehicle used in North America from the 18th to 19th centuries. It may have derived from German immigrants in Pennsylvania and was named after the Conestoga River Valley settlement area.
Conestoga is a census-designated place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with a population of 1,163. It has the ZIP code 17516 and is near the Conestoga River and the Susquehanna River.
The Conestoga River is a 61.6-mile-long tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, named after the Susquehannock people. It has a history of fur trade, steamboat service, and wagon building, but also faces nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from agricultural runoff.
The Susquehannock, also known as the Conestoga, Minquas, and Andaste, were an Iroquoian people who lived in the lower Susquehanna River watershed in what is now Pennsylvania. They had close trading relationships with European colonists, but faced conflict with the Haudenosaunee and disease, and are considered extinct as a tribe.
Conestoga originally consisted of surplus LGM-30 Minuteman stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required for larger payloads. It was the world's first privately funded commercial rocket , but was launched only three times (once as a modified design) between 1981 and 1995, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] before the program was shut down.
Conestoga is a term that can refer to various places, vehicles, education institutions, and fictional entities. It is also the name of a Native American people and a type of covered wagon.
Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) is a group of companies that provides engineering, environmental consulting, construction, and information technology (IT) services. On July 2, 2014, CRA became a division of the GHD Group . [ 1 ]