23 Facts About Brantford

Brantford is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario.

Brantford is situated on the Haldimand Tract, traditional territory of the Neutral, Mississauga, and Haudenosaunee peoples.

Brantford is known as the "Telephone City" as the city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone at his father's homestead, Melville House, now the Bell Homestead, located on Tutela Heights south of the city.

Brantford is known as birthplace and hometown of Wayne Gretzky.

In Brantford, they established their own school and church, now known as the S R Drake Memorial Church.

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The population increased after 1848 when river navigation to Brantford was opened and again in 1854 with the arrival of the railway to Brantford.

In June 1945, Brantford became the first city in Canada to fluoridate its water supply.

Brantford generated controversy in 2010 when its city council expropriated and demolished 41 historic downtown buildings on the south side of its main street, Colborne Street.

Brantford fought with the British during the War of 1812 and later worked to improve the welfare of the First Nations.

Brantford was involved in building schools and improving the welfare of his people.

The Bell Memorial, known as the Bell Monument, was commissioned to commemorate Bell's invention of the telephone in Brantford; it is one of the National Historic Sites of Canada.

Canada's first telephone factory, created by James Cowherd, was located in Brantford and operated from about 1879 until Cowherd's death in 1881.

Brantford is located within the County of Brant; however, it is a single-tier municipality, politically separate from the County.

Brantford's economy was hit hard in the 1980s when farm equipment manufacturers Massey Ferguson and White Farm Equipment closed their local plants.

In 2018, Brantford had the highest rate of emergency department visits for overdose of any city in Ontario.

Brantford developed as an important Canadian industrial centre for the first half of the 20th century, and it was once the third-ranked Canadian city in terms of cash-value of manufactured goods exported.

The combination of water and rail helped Brantford develop from a farming community into an industrial city with many blue-collar jobs, based on the agriculture implement industry.

Brantford has a humid continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold, moderately snowy winters, though not severe by Canadian standards.

Brantford has the highest proportion of Status Indians in Southern Ontario, outside of an Indian reserve.

Brantford has been used as a filming location for TV and films.

Brantford Expositor, started in 1852, is published six days per week by Sun Media Corp.

Some former rail lines serving Brantford have been converted to rail trails, which allow for intercommunity cycling connections to the north, south, and east.

Brantford is the home of several theatre groups including Brant Theatre Workshops, Dufferin Players, His Majesty's players, ICHTHYS Theatre, Stage 88, Theatre Brantford and Whimsical Players.