Brantford | |
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| City of Brantford | |
 From top, left to right: Flowerbed outside RBC Building, Statue of Joseph Brant, Colborne Street in Downtown Brantford, Bell Homestead, City Hall, Grand River | |
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  Brantford | |
| Coordinates: 43°09′25″N 80°15′27″W / 43.15694°N 80.25750°W[1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| County | Brant (independent) |
| Established | May 31, 1877 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Kevin Davis |
| • Governing Body | Brantford City Council |
| • MP | Larry Brock (Conservative) |
| • MPP | Will Bouma (Progressive Conservative) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 98.65 km2 (38.09 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,074.00 km2 (414.67 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 248 m (814 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
• City (single-tier) | 104,688 (53rd) |
| • Density | 1,061.2/km2 (2,748/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 144,162 (30th) |
| • Metro density | 134.2/km2 (348/sq mi) |
| Gross Metropolitan Product | |
| • Brantford CMA | CA$6.1 billion (2020)[4] |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) |
| Forward sortation area | |
| Area code(s) | 519, 226, and 548 |
| Website | www.brantford.ca |
Brantford (2021 population: 104,688[2]) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independent of the county's municipal government.[5][6][7]
Brantford is situated on the Haldimand Tract,[8][9] and is named after Joseph Brant, a Mohawk leader, soldier, farmer and slave owner.[10] Brant was an important Loyalist leader during the American Revolutionary War and later, after the Haudenosaunee moved to the Brantford area in Upper Canada. Many of his descendants and other First Nations people live on the nearby Six Nations of the Grand River reserve south of Brantford; it is the most populous reserve in Canada.
Brantford is known as the "Telephone City" because the city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone at his father's homestead, Melville House, now the Bell Homestead, located in Tutela Heights south of the city. Brantford is also known as the birthplace and hometown of Wayne Gretzky and Phil Hartman.
- ^ "Brantford". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ a b "Brantford Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Archived from the original on February 22, 2022. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ^ "Brantford Ontario [Census metropolitan area] Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Archived from the original on February 22, 2022. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ^ "Statistics Canada. Table 36-10-0468-01 Gross domestic product (GDP) at basic prices, by census metropolitan area (CMA) (x 1,000,000)". Statistics Canada.
- ^ "Proposed Boundary Adjustment". Brant.ca. Archived from the original on April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
- ^ "Members of Council". Brantford.ca. March 21, 2019. Archived from the original on February 13, 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
- ^ "Councillors and Wards – County of Brant". Brant.ca. Archived from the original on April 2, 2018. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
- ^ "Haldimand Tract". Grand River Country. Archived from the original on July 9, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
- ^ Filice, Michelle (December 16, 2020). "Haldimand Proclamation". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Archived from the original on August 5, 2019. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
- ^ "Sophia Burthen Pooley: Part of the Family?". Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. Archived from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved July 15, 2021.