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8 unusual facts about Brantford


Arthur Sweatman

Until 1872, he was the mathematics master at Upper Canada College, leaving there to become the rector of Grace Church in Brantford until 1874.

Brant South

The electoral district was abolished in 1903 when it was merged into Brantford riding.

Morrison Mann MacBride held the riding from 1919 until 1923, when the provincial riding became the Brantford riding in 1923.

Kā-kīwistāhāw

In 1886, Kā-kīwistāhāw and other "loyal" chiefs were chosen to travel to Brantford, Ontario, for the unveiling of a memorial to Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea).

Princess Falls

It is built on what was once the route for the Brantford and Hamilton Electric Railway owned by the Cataract Power Light and Traction Company (later Dominion Power and Transmission).

Robert R. Whale

In 1852, Whale and his family emigrated to Canada, settling near Brantford, Ontario.

Thomas B. Costain

Costain was born in Brantford, Ontario to John Herbert Costain and Mary Schultz.

YFD

YFD is the IATA airport code for Brantford Airport near Brantford, Ontario, Canada.


Brad Ward

Ward was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, defeating Liberal incumbent Dave Neumann in the Brantford division.

Caledonia Mill

The Mill still contains a large amount of its machinery, as well as machinery transported from Apps Mill near Brantford, Ontario.

CKJN-FM

CHCD contested the station could only survive on advertising revenue from Simcoe and Norfolk County, even in spite a condition of license barring it from soliciting local advertising in Simcoe (and also nearby Brantford).

CKPC

CKPC-FM, a radio station (92.1 FM) licensed to Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Cockshutt Plow Company

Originally founded as the Brantford Plow Works by James G. Cockshutt in 1877, the name was changed to the Cockshutt Plow Company when it was incorporated in 1882.

Deb Matthews

She is the sister of Shelley Peterson, wife of former Ontario Premier David Peterson, and the granddaughter of John Henry (Jack) Matthews, the former Mayor of Brantford, Ontario who ran as a CCF candidate.

Galvanic bath

Eventually the Institute was able to open two more branches in Hamilton and Brantford, Ontario.

Gary Stackhouse

He has worked in news, production and creative writing in addition to hosting on air shows in New Brunswick and in Southern Ontario at Brantford's CKPC-FM 92.1.

George Allen Davis

In 1909 Davis was among a trio of finalist judges, including, Sir Byron Edmund Walker of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Toronto and Sir George Christie Gibbons of London, Ontario, all patrons of the arts, whom were asked to join the selection committee for the Bell Telephone Memorial and choose the design sculptor for a major Bell Telephone monument in Brantford, Canada.

Green Party of Ontario candidates, 1995 Ontario provincial election

In 2009, he received a grant from the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund to study a little-known case of one hundred Turkish foundry workers rounded up from their homes in Brantford during World War I and sent to an internment camp in Kapuskasing.

Henry Cockshutt

Born in Brantford, Ontario, a son of Ignatius Cockshutt and Elizabeth Foster, he started in the family business, Cockshutt Plow Company, in 1884, becoming treasurer in 1888, secretary-treasurer in 1891, and President in 1911.

Independent Order of Foresters

Of Mohawk descent, born in 1841 at Six Nations near what is now Brantford, Ontario, Oronhyatekha ("Burning Sky") was baptized Peter Martin and later attended Oxford where he became an MD.

J. R. Vautour

He began performing at a young age, finishing second to Beverley Mahood in the 12-and-under category of a Brantford, Ontario singing contest.

James G. Cockshutt

In 1877 he founded the original Cockshutt factory, the Brantford Plow Works at Brantford, Ontario.

James Hillier

Born in Brantford, Ontario, the son of James and Ethel (Cooke) Hillier, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics (1937), Master of Arts (1938), and a Ph.D (1941) from the University of Toronto, where, as a graduate student, he completed a prototype of the electron microscope that had been invented by Ernst Ruska.

Mark Frostad

Mark R. Frostad (born January 19, 1949 in Brantford, Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer.

Ohsweken Speedway

Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Reserve southeast of Brantford, Ontario.

Pioneers, a Volunteer Network

In June 1949 the Charles Fleetford Sise Chapter of the Telephone Pioneers commissioned and dedicated a large statue of Bell in the front portico of Brantford, Ontario's new Bell Telephone Building plant on Market Street.

Attending the formal ceremony were Bell's daughter, Mrs. Gillbert Grosvenor, Frederick Johnson, President of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, T.N. Lacy, President of the Telephone Pioneers, and Brantford Mayor Walter J. Dowden.

Tom Longboat

Cogwagee (Thomas Charles Longboat) (June 4, 1887 – January 9, 1949) was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Indian reserve near Brantford, Ontario, and for much of his career the dominant long distance runner of the time.

W. Ross Macdonald School

It was given its current name in 1974 in honour of Brantford citizen William Ross Macdonald, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1968 to 1974.

William Foster Cockshutt

Born in Brantford, Canada West, the son of Ignatius Cockshutt, Cockshutt was educated in Brantford and at the Galt College Institute.


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