Welcome to Brantford!
Brantford is a former industrial city of 97,000 people (2016) on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. "The Telephone City", is where Alexander Graham Bell said he invented his telephone, and from where he placed the first long-distance call to nearby Paris (Ontario). His Tutela Heights home, south of the city, is an international tourist attraction.
Brant County surrounds the City of Brantford. It had a population of 37,000 in 2016. It includes the pretty riverside community of Paris. The Brant census division includes the Six Nations Reserve, which has about 13,000 residents but is not part of the county.
Brantford (2016 population 97,496, CMA population 134,203) 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. Brantford is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the traditional territory of the Neutral, Mississauga, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The city is named after Joseph Brant, an important Mohawk leader, soldier, farmer, and slave owner. Brant was an important 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, which is the most populous reserve in Canada.
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 also known as the birthplace and hometown of Wayne Gretzky.