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Fencing has gone up on Ezra Avenue, in Waterloo, Ont.’s university district, in the hopes it will deter people from taking part in unsanctioned St. Patrick’s Day street parties. Fencing is put up on Ezra Avenue ahead of St. Patrick’s Day, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. Mathew McCarthy Waterloo Region Record The University District of Waterloo includes the Northdale and MacGregor neighbourhoods, as well as Waterloo Park and the majority of the uptown neighbourhood. It also includes Ezra Avenue, the typical location of the St. Patrick’s Day street party. Days ahead of St. Patrick’s Day, barriers and no-parking signs are already going up on Ezra Avenue in Waterloo, in an effort to contain potentially dangerous street parties. Updated March 14 Fencing on Ezra Avenue has been erected since 2022 to discourage student gatherings for St. Patrick’s Day in Waterloo. Police are looking at more strategies to curb crowds. And three, the wild behaviour on St. Patrick's Day in Waterloo's university neighbourhood. Students from here and out of town use the street parties, with their traditional epicentre having been on Ezra Avenue beside Wilfrid Laurier University, as a way of letting off steam. Partygoers are seen taking over Ezra Avenue in Waterloo on St. Patrick's Day in this photo from 2018. (Joe Pavia/CBC) The City of Waterloo has been granted a court injunction that aims at helping police break up "dangerous unsanctioned street gatherings" during the weekend leading up to St. Patrick's Day, a Waterloo announces parking bans in university district for St. Patrick’s Day weekend The City of Waterloo stated that an operational plan is in place for Sunday to react to ongoing St. Patrick’s Day activities led by the Waterloo Regional Police Service, and officers will be patrolling by foot, cruisers, and bikes. More than 33,000 people flooded Ezra and Bricker Avenues on Sunday, making 2019 the largest unsanctioned St. Patrick's Day party in the city's history. Ezra Avenue's infamous St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Waterloo have been pretty tame over the last two pandemic years. In the past, tens of thousands of people descended on the street for an Things were quiet early Sunday afternoon in the area of Waterloo’s Marshall Street and Ezra Avenue when an unsanctioned St. Patrick’s Day street party that normally draws thousands of students Fencing on Ezra Avenue has been erected since 2022 to discourage student gatherings for St. Patrick’s Day in Waterloo. Police are looking at more strategies to curb crowds. Despite the sunny skies, St. Patrick's Day on Ezra Avenue in Waterloo was a quiet affair. As of Wednesday afternoon, just a handful of students who wore green walked along the residential street. In 2019, police estimated that 33,000 people gathered on Ezra Avenue on St. Patrick’s Day, which led to 80 calls for paramedics while a similar amount of people visited emergency rooms at the WATERLOO — St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated, not on Ezra Avenue, but large groups of students spilled into neighbourhood streets, forcing police to close some roads by Thursday afternoon. Preparations are underway as Waterloo braces for St. Patrick’s Day. March 17 – which falls on a Sunday this year – sees thousands of students descend on the University District for a massive It's unclear whether Ezra Avenue in Waterloo will be filled with St. Patrick's Day revellers this year. The residential street that borders Wilfrid Laurier University was quiet in 2020 and 2021 as Final bill for Ezra Avenue St. Patrick’s Day street party in Waterloo: $767,211 READ MORE: Ezra Avenue St. Patrick’s Day crowd peaked at 33,000 people: Waterloo police. Thousands of students gathered on Ezra Avenue in Waterloo for an unsanctioned St. Patrick's Day party on Sunday. Waterloo Regional Police closed the street, as well as nearby Bricker Avenue, to
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