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Brantford is a city of 100,000 located on the Grand River, Highway 403, which runs to London and Hamilton, and Highway 24, which runs to Cambridge. Highway 2 also runs through Brantford. In fact Highway 2 runs all the way from Windsor to Kingston.

Brantford was named after Captain Joseph Thayendanegea Brant, the Mohawk Chief who led his six nations Indians from upper New York State to the Grand River in 1784. Captain Brant is buried in Her Majesty's Royal Chapel in Brantford. This is the first Protestant church built in Ontario and one of only two Royal Chapels outside the United Kingdom.

Brantford was once the third largest city in Ontario and an important industrial center. The Grand River empties into Lake Eerie and Brantford was at the head of navigation for barges that brought raw materials up and took manufactured goods down the River . Obviously the barges couldn't navigate across the ford. Brantford was also once the railroad hub of Southern Ontario. The combination of water and rail aided Brantford in changing from a farming community into an industrial city, with an agriculture implement industry centred around companies such as Massey Harris and the Cockshutt Plow Company. After sustained economic growth through most of the 20th century, the crash came in the 1980s and 1990s, with the bankruptcies of White Farm Equipment, Massey Ferguson, Koering Waterous, Harding Carpets, and other manufacturers, making Brantford one of the most economically depressed areas in the country.

Wayne Gretzky, learned to skate in Brantford, and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone here. In 1876 Bell made the first long distance call. It was from Brantford to Paris.

Paris, Ontario is only an hour's walk north west of Brantford. However, you might be able to hitch a ride on a freight train or better still canoe up the Grand River. Paris got its name because so many of its homes used copious amounts of plaster of Paris in their construction. Obviously plaster of Paris was available locally and cheap. Paris is also called "the cobblestone capital of Canada", cobblestone was the other house building material. Paris prefers to be called "the prettiest town in Canada", however, Brantford is a proud winner of the "Best Bloomin' City Award,"

Saturday 20th to Sunday 21st August The Brantford Carrot Festival

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