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8 unusual facts about Brampton


Black flight

There is a large and growing Black population in Toronto's western and eastern suburbs, such as Brampton, Mississauga, Pickering, and Ajax.

Brampton, Cambridgeshire

Geoff Capes, the Commonwealth shot put champion and two times winner of the title of World's Strongest Man, served as a police officer here in the 1970s.

Geography of Mississauga

Mississauga is bounded by Oakville and Milton to the west/southwest, Brampton to the north, Toronto to the east, and Lake Ontario to the south/south-east.

Ontario Highway 409

Instead of continuing northwest from Highway 427 and through Malton's four-corners at Derry Road and Airport Road towards Brampton, it would curve southwest and provide access to the developing Pearson Airport.

Eventually the route was changed to provide access to the airport instead of towards Brampton and completed through the mid-1970s, opening in 1978.

Peel Memorial Hospital

It previously served approximately 400,000 residents in Brampton and the surrounding areas.

Thomas Linacre

He was born at Brampton, Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, descended from an ancient family recorded in the Domesday Book.

William Osler Health Centre

It serves a geographic area of over 2,400 square kilometres including Brampton and Etobicoke.


1836 Wetheral train accident

Six or eight miles westwards along the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway from Brampton Junction is the village of Wetheral and a few hundred yards before Wetheral railway station is the hamlet of Great Corby.

2010–11 CWHL season

January 16: Gillian Apps scored her seventh goal of the season 2:42 into overtime as Brampton defeated the Boston Blades by a 4-3 tally.

Brampton Bierlow

Footballers George Robledo and Ted Robledo (both played for Newcastle United) grew up in the village: they were born in Chile but moved to Brampton (their mother's home) as children due to war.

Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting

The Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting was a school shooting that occurred at Brampton Centennial Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario, Canada on May 28, 1975.

Brampton Civic Hospital

It opened in 2007 and replaces the Peel Memorial Hospital which previously served Brampton and the surrounding area.

Brampton Civic Hospital is an acute care hospital in Brampton, Ontario and part of the William Osler Health Centre along with the nearby Etobicoke General Hospital.

Brampton Etobicoke District Cricket Association

The Brampton Etobicoke District Cricket League works very closely with the City of Brampton, City of Toronto, City of Mississauga, Powerade Center, Humber College and the City of Waterloo in order to arrange ground facilities for the games.

Brampton Excelsiors

Brampton Excelsiors Jr. A, a box lacrosse team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who compete in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League

Brampton Excelsiors, now Mississauga Tomahawks Jr. B, a box lacrosse team from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Brampton Island

In 1985, Trans Australia Airlines purchased Brampton Island, upgraded the resort and subsequently sold it to P&O Resorts in late 1997.

The resort was operated by Voyages until 2010 when it was sold to Brampton Enterprises.

Brampton Jail

The Brampton Jail's most notorious inmate was Huey Newton, an American co-founder of the Black Panther Party, who was held there in 1977 while awaiting extradition to the United States for murder.

Brampton Railway

The Brampton railway began in 1775 as a wooden wagonway from Tindale Fell Colliery to Brampton Coal Staithe constructed by the Earl of Carlisle.

Brampton railway station

Pitsford and Brampton railway station, formerly known as Brampton, Northamptonshire

Brampton Transit

Brampton Transit Transit Enforcement Officers patrol in white Dodge Chargers a single black stripe and wording Transit Enforcement in black.

Chinguacousy Township, Ontario

The name lives on in Brampton in Chinguacousy Park, Chinguacousy Road, the Chinguacousy Concert Band, and Chinguacousy Secondary School, among other things.

Dearne and Dove Canal

There were another four locks up to the junction with the Elsecar branch, which lay between Brampton and Wombwell at the junction of the Dearne Valley Parkway and the A633.

Dini Dimakos

In the late 1990s Dimakos began interning at a Brampton, Ontario radio station called Hot 103.5 FM, which would later be known as Hits 103.5 FM, and currently Z 103.5 (CIDC), (Evanov Group LTD).

Garden City, Georgia

From the Reconstruction Era until the 1930s, the area was home to three major plantations: Brampton, Givens and Telfair.

History of Brampton

A new hospital is being built in north Brampton, to supplement the Peel Memorial Hospital.

Mississauga council, led by Mayor Hazel McCallion, voted in favour of becoming a single tier municipality and asked the provincial government to be separated from Peel Region, arguing that the city has outgrown the need for a regional layer of government and that Mississauga is now being held back by supporting Brampton and Caledon with its municipal taxes.

Little Brampton

Little Brampton is situated on a notable crossroads in the Clun valley, where the B4385 (from Lydbury North) and B4368 (running between Clun and Craven Arms) roads meet, as well as the lane down to the village of Clunbury.

Lord William Howard

William Howard School, the secondary school in Brampton, Cumbria is named after him.

Maponos

Maponos (“Great Son”) is mentioned in Gaul at Bourbonne-les-Bains (CIL 13, 05924) and at Chamalières (RIG L-100) but is attested chiefly in the north of Britain at Brampton, Corbridge (ancient Coria), Ribchester (In antiquity, Bremetenacum Veteranorum) and Chesterholm (in antiquity, Vindolanda).

Mississauga Secondary School

It is ranked 17 out of 34 secondary schools in the city of Mississauga and is ranked 9 out of 32 secondary schools in the Peel District School Board, which includes schools from Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga.

Norman Mills Price

Born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, he studied at the Ontario School of Art, then in London at the Westminster School of Art and the Goldsmith’s Institute.

NPSS

North Park Secondary School, a high school located in Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Peel and Dufferin Regiment

Some of the officers felt they would have to recruit from beyond the bounds of the county in order to be viable, and the Headquarters, A and B Companies were located in a large second story flat at the corner of Pacific and Dundas Streets in West Toronto; C Company was in Brampton and D Company in Port Credit.

Right At Home Realty

RAH currently has over 2,300 brokers and salespeople within their organization and have offices in Toronto, Mississauga/Brampton, Oakville, Burlington/Hamilton, Durham and Richmond Hill.

Susan Fennell

Fennell is an Honorary Member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 15, an Honorary Member of the Brampton Kiwanis and Zonta clubs, and has been honoured with Rotary International's Paul Harris Fellowship.

Thomas Town

Town was the son and heir of Thomas atte Town, who died in 1403, and of Benedicta Detling, daughter and heiress of John Detling of Detling, Kent, who was also known as John Brampton.

Whillans

Ken Whillans (1927–1990), Canadian politician and mayor of Brampton, Ontario.

William James Gage

He was born in Toronto township, Canada West, the son of Andrew Albert Gage and Mary Jane Grafton, and was educated in Brampton and at the Toronto Normal School.

Yorkdale Bus Terminal

:7 - GO Bus westbound Route 27 Milton Hwy 401 Service, and westbound Route 33 Brampton/Georgetown/Guelph

:8 - GO Bus northwest Route 35 Hwy 27 Service to Bramalea/Brampton


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