Brantford, Ontario

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City of Brantford
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Nickname(s): The Telephone City
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Coordinates: 43°10′N 80°15′W / 43.167°N 80.25°W / 43.167; -80.25Coordinates: 43°10′N 80°15′W / 43.167°N 80.25°W / 43.167; -80.25
Country  Canada
Province Ontario Flag of Ontario.svg
Government
 • Mayor Mike Hancock
Website http://www.brantford.ca

Brantford is a city in Ontario, Canada. There are 90,192 people in Brantford[1].

Brantford is near Hamilton.

Brantford is sometimes called The Telephone City, because the inventor of the telephone lived in Brantford. Hockey player Wayne Gretzky was born in Brantford.

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[change] History

Brantford became a city in 1877.

[change] Business

Colborne Street

Brantford was an big Canadian city for making goods from 1900 to 1950, exporting many goods. The city is on a river, theGrand River, and had a railroad. Having both water and rails helped Brantford go from a farming town to an industrial city.

By the 1980s and 1990s, business in Brantford was dropping and some companies like White Farm Equipment, Massey-Ferguson, Koering-Waterous, Harding Carpets, and others stopped making products. Many people lost their jobs. Since then, some jobs have come back.

A new piece of highway (Highway 403) was built in 1997, for easy driving to Hamilton and Toronto, and also to Detroit and Buffalo. So, in 2004, Procter & Gamble and Ferrero SpA moved to Brantford.

[change] Education

40% of people in Brantford did not finish high-school. In the rest of the province of Ontario, this number is 33%.

People in Brantford earn 9% less than people in the rest of Canada.

[change] Universities and colleges

[change] Politics

Brantford City Hall

The city council was elected in November, 2006, and is led by Mayor Mike Hancock. Two people were elected to represent each of five areas in Brantford. They are: Jennifer Kinneman and Mark Littell(Area 1), Vince Bucci and John Sless (Area 2), Greg Martin and Dan McCreary (Area 3), Richard Carpenter and James Calnan (Area 4), and John Bradford and Marguerite Ceschi-Smith (Area 5).

[change] Newspapers, radio and television (TV)

The Brantford Expositor, which began in 1852, is printed six times a week (everyday except Sunday).

[change] Television

Brantford's has its own television service: Rogers TV (cable 20), a local community channel on Rogers Cable. Other television stations come fromToronto, Hamilton and Kitchener.

[change] Movies

Movies like Welcome to Mooseport and Where the Truth Lies were partly made in Brantford. Part of Due South, "Dr. Long Ball", was made at Arnold Anderson Stadium in a park in Brantford. Also, Weirdsville, was made in Brantford in 2006. "Silent Hill" was made in the downtown in 2005.

[change] Airports, trains, buses and roads

[change] Airports

Brantford Municipal Airport is in the west end of the city. It has a yearlyair show, with the Snowbirds. The John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport in Hamilton is about 35 km east of Brantford. Toronto Pearson International Airport is in Mississauga, about 100 km north and east of Brantford.

[change] Trains

The train station is located just north of downtown Brantford. VIA Rail has trains for people every day. Trains travel between Windsor, Ontario and Union Station in Toronto, Ontario.

[change] Buses

Brantford Transit has nine bus routes that go every half-hour from the middle of the city on Darling Street. There are other buses for school times.

Greyhound Canada has buses that go to Toronto, Hamilton, London, Windsor, and other cities.

All Around Transportation drives a bus between Brantford and Paris, Ontario.

[change] Main roads

[change] Things to see and do

Brantford has a Casino Brantford OLG Casino.

There are live shows at The Sanderson Centre. There is Bingo on Thursday evenings.

The Ford Plant has music concerts.

[change] Brantford's Canada Day Festival

Brantford has a big Canada Day Festival on July 1. It has family events and Canadian music. More than 35,000 people come to the Festival.

In the past, these people have sung:

2005 – Jeff Healy
2005 – Lighthouse
2007 – The Trews
2008 – Theory of a Deadman

[change] Sports teams

[change] Local teams

  • Brantford Red Sox
  • Brantford Jr. Braves
  • Brantford Posse (minor lacrosse teams)
  • Brantford Intercity Soccer (Bics)
  • Brantford Saints (hockey team)
  • Brantford 99er's (hockey teams)
  • Brantford Ice Cats (girls hockey team)
  • Brantford Bisons (football team)
  • Brantford Red Sox (baseball team)
  • Brantford City Soccer Club
  • Brantford Briers (basketball team)
  • Brantford CYO (basketball team)
  • Brantford Aquatic Club

[change] Bigger teams

[change] Teams that don't play anymore

[change] Tournaments

[change] Other

  • Brantford won the 2008 Allan Cup. [1]
  • The Brantford Golf & Country Club was started in 1879. It is the fourth oldest golf club in North America. It is 29th on Score Golf's "Top 100 Golf Courses in Canada" 2006 list.

[change] People

Main page: List of people from Brantford

[change] Service clubs

[change] Religion

Brantford has many churches and religious temples. It is thought that there are over 35 churches in Brantford, including Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Salvation Army, Presbyterian, United, Christadelphian, and Mormon. There are two mosques - a Sunni mosque and a Sufi[source?] mosque. There is also one Sikh temple.

[change] Twin city

Brantford is twinned with:

[change] Other pages

[change] References

  1. ↑ Statistics Canada
  2. ↑ Brantford Expositor - City gets a twin

[change] Other websites

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