The population of Doon dropped sharply after the Doon Twines company relocated to Berlin, now Kitchener, during World War I.
There are now only a few small businesses in Doon, which has become a suburb for commuters to Kitchener and Cambridge.

After Phoebe Watson died the Watson house was home to the Doon School of Fine Arts from 1948 to 1966.

The house, a substantial building in Scottish Gothic Vertical style that was built in 1834 by Adam Ferrie, was purchased by the City of Kitchener in 1981 and opened to the public as a historic building and art gallery.

The Homer Watson Memorial Park lies next to the village.

Doon contains the Doon Heritage Village, which covers 60 acres (24 ha) and reconstructs a view of life in the region in 1914, on the eve of World War I.
There are period buildings, farm animals and interpreters dressed in period clothes.

The Waterloo Region Museum is at the entrance to the village.

The former house of Peter McArthur was transported to the village from its original location on land owned by the McArthur family near Appin, Ontario in Ekfrid Township.

Hugh C. Elliott (1899-1995), who had served in 1918–19 with the Canadian Engineers in Vladivostok, Siberia, was a charter director of the Doon Pioneer Village.

Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a polytechnic established in 1967.

The original campus of Conestoga College, and the largest, is located in Doon by the Highway 401 / Homer Watson Blvd.
interchange.
 The campus holds the college's main administrative offices.
There are residences for full-time students next to the campus.

A 3-storey 75,000 square feet (7,000 m²) wing for the School of Health and Life Sciences opened in August 2011.
The population of Doon dropped sharply after the Doon Twines company relocated to Berlin, now Kitchener, during World War I.
There are now only a few small businesses in Doon, which has become a suburb for commuters to Kitchener and Cambridge.
After Phoebe Watson died the Watson house was home to the Doon School of Fine Arts from 1948 to 1966.
The house, a substantial building in Scottish Gothic Vertical style that was built in 1834 by Adam Ferrie, was purchased by the City of Kitchener in 1981 and opened to the public as a historic building and art gallery.
The Homer Watson Memorial Park lies next to the village.
Doon contains the Doon Heritage Village, which covers 60 acres (24 ha) and reconstructs a view of life in the region in 1914, on the eve of World War I.
There are period buildings, farm animals and interpreters dressed in period clothes.
The Waterloo Region Museum is at the entrance to the village.
The former house of Peter McArthur was transported to the village from its original location on land owned by the McArthur family near Appin, Ontario in Ekfrid Township.
Hugh C. Elliott (1899-1995), who had served in 1918–19 with the Canadian Engineers in Vladivostok, Siberia, was a charter director of the Doon Pioneer Village.
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a polytechnic established in 1967.
The original campus of Conestoga College, and the largest, is located in Doon by the Highway 401 / Homer Watson Blvd. interchange.  The campus holds the college's main administrative offices. There are residences for full-time students next to the campus. 
A 3-storey 75,000 square feet (7,000 m²) wing for the School of Health and Life Sciences opened in August 2011.
Doon, Ontario