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49-476: The Blast were the winners of the 2008 Allan Cup as Canadian Senior "AAA" Champions. In 2000, the Ontario Hockey Association allowed for the expansion of the first Brantford team since 1987 into Ontario's top tier of Senior hockey. The Brantford Prowl competed during the 2000-01 Southwestern Senior A Hockey League season and finished in fifth place with a record of 12 wins, 17 losses, and

98-587: A 4–3 win Monday March 12 in front of the home town crowd in Brantford. Brantford won the J. Ross Robertson Cup for the league's playoffs championship in 2013 and 2014. The Blast's was initially withdrawn from the Allan Cup Hockey for the 2022–23 season only. However, the application for the 2023-24 season was not submitted. The Blast finished the 2007–08 season in second place. They swept

147-761: A change of 7.4% from its 2016 population of 134,203 . With a land area of 1,074 km (415 sq mi), it had a population density of 134.2/km (347.7/sq mi) in 2021. 103,210 people gave their ethnic background on the 2021 census, up from 95,780 on the 2016 census. Brantford has the highest proportion of Indigenous people ( Status Indians ) in Southern Ontario , outside of an Indian reserve . In 2021, 51.8% of residents were Christian , down from 64.8% in 2011. 22.2% of residents were Catholic , 17.6% were Protestant , and 7.7% were Christian not otherwise specified. All other Christian denominations and Christian-related traditions accounted for 4.1% of

196-533: A law library and a gaol. During additions in the 1880s, the Greek Revival style, with Doric columns, was retained. Among the most famed residents were Alexander Graham Bell and his family, who arrived in mid 1870 from Scotland while Bell was suffering from tuberculosis. They lived with Bell's father and mother, who had settled in a farmhouse on Tutela Heights (named after the First Nations tribe of

245-523: A local community channel on Rogers Cable . Otherwise, Brantford is served by stations from Toronto , Hamilton and Kitchener . Brantford Municipal Airport is located west of the city. It hosts an annual air show featuring the Snowbirds . The John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport in Hamilton is located about 35 km (20 miles) east of Brantford. Toronto Pearson International Airport

294-515: A population of 104,688 living in 41,673 of its 43,269 total private dwellings, a change of 6.2% from its 2016 population of 98,563 . With a land area of 98.65 km (38.09 sq mi), it had a population density of 1,061.2/km (2,748.5/sq mi) in 2021. At the census metropolitan area (CMA) level in the 2021 census, the Brantford CMA had a population of 144,162 living in 56,003 of its 58,047 total private dwellings,

343-623: A post-secondary certificate, diploma, or university degree. Several post-secondary institutions have facilities in Brantford. Public education in the area is managed by the Grand Erie District School Board , and Catholic education is managed by the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board . Public education in the area is managed by the Grand Erie District School Board , and Catholic education

392-810: A tie. The team took 2001-02 off, but then re-emerged in 2002 as the Blast. In 2002, Brantford rejoined the top tier of Ontario senior hockey this time known as the Brantford Blast. At the time, the city had the Brantford Golden Eagles in the Ontario Hockey Association , but had also lost teams, like the Brantford Alexanders of the Ontario Hockey League , who left in 1984 and the Brantford Smoke of

441-683: Is located in Mississauga , about 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Brantford. Brantford station is located just north of downtown Brantford. Via Rail has daily passenger trains on the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor . Trains also stop at Union Station in Toronto . Street rail began in Brantford in 1886 with horse-drawn carriages; by 1893, this system had been converted to electric. The City of Brantford took over these operations in 1914. Around 1936, it began to replace

490-567: Is managed by the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board and the Conseil Scolaire de District Catholique Centre-Sud . BTOWN is a free alternative online magazine which highlights people, projects and events in the Brantford area. The Brantford Expositor , started in 1852, is published by Sun Media Corp. six days a week (excluding Sundays). The Brant News was a weekly paper, delivered Thursdays until 2018; it publishes breaking news online at their website, and

539-761: 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 , and is named after Joseph Brant , a Mohawk leader, soldier, farmer and slave owner. 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

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588-622: Is published by Metroland Media Group . The Two Row Times , a Free weekly paper started in 2013, is published on Wednesdays, delivered to every reservation in Ontario and globally online at their website, published by Garlow Media. BScene, a Free community paper founded in 2014, is published monthly and distributed locally throughout Brantford and Brant County via local businesses and community centers, It can also be viewed online at their website. Independently published. Brantford's only local television service comes from Rogers TV (cable 20),

637-572: Is still in use today as one of two royal Chapels in Canada and the oldest Protestant Church in the province. Joseph Brant and his son John Brant are buried here. Chief John Brant (Mohawk leader) (Ahyonwaeghs) was one of the sons of Joseph Brant. He fought with the British during the War of 1812 and later worked to improve the welfare of the First Nations. He was involved in building schools and improving

686-512: Is the municipal governing body. As of October 22, 2018, the mayor is Kevin Davis . Brantford's economy was hit hard in the 1980s when farm equipment manufacturers Massey Ferguson and White Farm Equipment closed their local plants. By the end of 1981, the city's unemployment rate reached 22%. As with other small Ontario cities hit by the decline of manufacturing, the community struggled with an increase in social problems. In more recent times,

735-488: The Bell Telephone Company of Canada . The decision was widely criticized by Ontario's heritage preservation community, however, the city argued it was needed for downtown renewal. Plaques and monuments erected by the provincial and federal governments provide additional glimpses into the early history of the area around Brantford. The famed Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant (Thayendanega) led his people from

784-819: The Colonial Hockey League , who left in 1998. The Blast would play their home games at the Brantford Civic Centre as well. The Blast have made it to the post season twice. In the 2005–06 season, when they won the league, but lost in the first round to the Dundas Real McCoys 4 games to 2. In the 2006–07 season, they placed third, defeating the Petrolia Squires 4 games to 3, and the Windsor St. Clair Saints 4 games to none to capture their first MLH Championship after

833-642: The Neutral Nation , lived in the Grand River valley area before the 17th century; their main village and seat of the chief, Kandoucho , was identified by 19th-century historians as having been located on the Grand River where present-day Brantford developed. This community, like the rest of their settlements, was destroyed when the Iroquois declared war in 1650 over the fur trade and exterminated

882-819: The Ontario Hockey Federation as a whole by winning the Robertson Cup grand championship, played between the winners of Major League Hockey and the Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League . The other representatives were the Dundas Real McCoys , who despite losing the Robertson Cup to the Dunlops received a second chance at the Allan Cup because they pushed through to the Greater Ontario championship,

931-651: The Renwick Cup and defeated Hockey Northwestern Ontario 's Thunder Bay Hawks . The reason for the second representative being awarded was due to a lack of a Maritime entry in the Senior "AAA" ranks for the season. Brantford Brantford ( 2021 population : 104,688 ) is a city in Ontario , Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario . It is surrounded by Brant County but

980-473: The Windsor St. Clair Saints 4-games-to-none in the Major League Hockey semi-final, but were defeated 4-games-to-2 to the Dundas Real McCoys . The Brantford Blast were the host team of the 2008 Allan Cup , which was held in Brantford from April 14-April 19, 2008. This was also the 100th anniversary for the event, one of the reasons that the Blast wanted to host it. The Brantford Blast became

1029-587: The 100th year that the Allan Cup has been awarded. The 2008 tournament was hosted by the City of Brantford , Ontario , and the Brantford Blast of the Ontario Hockey Association 's Major League Hockey . The tournament began on April 14, 2008, and concluded April 19, 2008. Ontario was represented by two different teams in the 2008 Allan Cup, not including the hosts. The Whitby Dunlops represented

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1078-490: The African-Canadian residents. By 1847, Europeans began to settle further up the river at a ford in the Grand River and named their village Brantford. The population increased after 1848 when river navigation to Brantford was opened and again in 1854 with the arrival of the railway to Brantford. Because of the ease of navigation from new roads and the Grand River, several manufacturing companies could be found in

1127-746: The British Crown in 1785 for the Mohawk and Iroquois people (Six Nations of the Grand River), was dedicated in 1788 as a reminder of the original agreements made with the British during the American Revolution . In 1904 the chapel received Royal status by King Edward VII in memory of the longstanding alliance. Her Majesty's Royal Chapel of the Mohawks is an important reminder of the original agreements made with Queen Anne in 1710. It

1176-501: The Grand River. Because of existing networks, it became a railroad hub of Southern Ontario. The combination of water and rail helped Brantford develop from a farming community into an industrial city with many blue-collar jobs based on the agriculture implementation industry. Major companies included S.C. Johnson Wax, Massey-Harris, Verity Plow, and the Cockshutt Plow Company . This industry, more than any other, provided

1225-717: The Mohawk Valley of New York State to Upper Canada after being allied with the British during the American Revolution , where they lost their land holdings. A group of 400 settled in 1788 on the Grand River at Mohawk Village which would later become Brantford. Nearly a century later (1886), the Joseph Brant Memorial would be erected in Burlington, Ontario in honour of Brant and the Six Nations Confederacy. The Mohawk Chapel , built by

1274-692: The Neutral nation. In 1784, Captain Joseph Brant and the Mohawk people of the Iroquois Confederacy left New York State for Canada. As a reward for their loyalty to the British Crown , they were given a large land grant, referred to as the Haldimand Tract , on the Grand River. The original Mohawk settlement was on the south edge of the present-day city at a location favourable for landing canoes. Brant's crossing (or fording) of

1323-682: The area and later absorbed into Brantford.) Then called Melville House, it is now a museum, the Bell Homestead National Historic Site . This was the site of the invention of the telephone in 1874 and ongoing trials in 1876. The Bell Memorial , also known as the Bell Monument, was commissioned to commemorate Bell's invention of the telephone in Brantford; it is also one of the National Historic Sites of Canada . Some articles suggest that

1372-470: The area around Murray Street, and in Cainsville . In Brantford, they established their own school and church, now known as the S.R. Drake Memorial Church . In 1846, it is estimated 2000 residents lived in the city's core while 5199 lived in the outlying rural areas. There were eight churches in Brantford at this time – Episcopal, Presbyterian, Catholic, two Methodist, Baptist, Congregational, and one for

1421-575: The businesses left thousands of people unemployed. As a consequence, it became one of the most economically depressed areas in the country, leaving a negative impact on the once-vibrant downtown. An economic revival was prompted by the completion of the Brantford-to- Ancaster section of Highway 403 in 1997, bringing companies easy access to Hamilton and Toronto and completing a direct route from Detroit to Buffalo . In 2004 Procter & Gamble and Ferrero SpA chose to locate in

1470-440: The city was hit hard by the opioid crisis . In 2018, Brantford had the highest rate of emergency department visits for overdose of any city in Ontario. In 2018, Brantford police reported an overall crime rate of 6,533 incidents per 100,000 population, 59% higher than in Ontario (4,113) and 19% higher than in Canada (5,488). The same year, Maclean's magazine ranked Brantford as having a higher rate of crime severity than most of

1519-479: The city. Though Wescast Industries, Inc. recently closed its local foundry, its corporate headquarters will remain in Brantford. SC Johnson Canada has their headquarters and a manufacturing plant in Brantford, connected to the Canadian National network. Other companies that have their headquarters here include Gunther Mele and GreenMantra Technologies . On February 16, 2005, Brant, including Brantford,

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1568-463: The county. Ontario's Municipal Act, 2001 defines single-tier municipalities as "a municipality, other than an upper-tier municipality, that does not form part of an upper-tier municipality for municipal purposes." Single-tier municipalities provide for all local government services. At the federal and provincial levels of government, Brantford is part of the Brant riding . Brantford City Council

1617-527: The education of First Nations children at residential schools , which were intended to teach them English and European-Canadian ways and assimilate them into the majority cultures. Such institutions in or near Brantford included the Thomas Indian School, Mohawk Institute Residential School (also known as Mohawk Manual Labour School and Mush Hole Indian Residential School), and the Haudenosaunee boarding school. Decades later and particularly since

1666-614: The final, who defeated the 2007 champions Lloydminster Border Kings and the Shawinigan Xtreme , and defeated them 3–1 to win the Canadian National Senior "AAA" crown. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against 2008 Allan Cup The 2008 Allan Cup was the Canadian championship of senior ice hockey , and

1715-710: The first Ontario Hockey Association team since the Brantford Motts Clamatos , in 1987, to win the Allan Cup . As hosts of the 2008 Allan Cup , the Blast failed to win their league and were allowed to bypass the OHA Final against the Whitby Dunlops and the Renwick Cup against the Thunder Bay Hawks . After almost a months rest, the Blast competed at home for the Allan Cup and won the entire thing. After suffering their only loss of

1764-412: The first city in Canada to fluoridate its water supply. Brantford generated controversy in 2010 when its city council expropriated and demolished 41 historic downtown buildings on the south side of its main street, Colborne Street. The buildings constituted one of the longest blocks of pre-Confederation architecture in Canada and included one of Ontario's first grocery stores and an early 1890s office of

1813-575: The invention of the telephone here... [which was] conceived in Brantford in 1874 and born in Boston in 1875" and that "the first transmission to a distance was made between Brantford and Paris " (on 3 August 1876). As well, the second successful voice transmission (over a distance of 6 km; 4 miles) was also made in the area, on 4 August 1876, between the telegraph office in Brantford, Ontario and Bell's father's homestead over makeshift wires. Canada's first telephone factory, created by James Cowherd ,

1862-720: The late 20th century, numerous scholarly and artistic works have explored the detrimental effects of the schools in destroying Native cultures. Examples include Ronald James Douglas' graduate thesis titled Documenting Ethnic Cleansing in North America: Creating Unseen Tears , and the Legacy of Hope Foundation's online media collection: "Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools". In June 1945, Brantford became

1911-700: 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 . The Iroquoian-speaking Attawandaron, known in English as

1960-517: The population. 40.4% of residents had no religion, up from 31.6% in 2011. All other religions and spiritual traditions make up 8.1% of the population. The largest non-Christian religions were Sikhism (2.6%), Islam (2.0%), Hinduism (1.7%) and Buddhism (0.5%). Brantford has been used as a filming location for TV and films. Statistics from the Federal 2016 Census indicated that 54.1% of Brantford's adult residents (ages 25 to 64) had earned either

2009-407: The province. The electric telephone was invented here leading to the establishment of Canada's first telephone factory here in the 1870s. Brantford developed as an important Canadian industrial centre for the first half of the 20th century, and it was once the third-ranked Canadian city in terms of the cash value of manufactured goods exported. The city developed at the deepest navigable point of

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2058-530: The river gave the original name to the area: Brant's ford The Glebe Farm Indian Reserve exists at the original site today. The area began to grow from a small settlement in the 1820s as the Hamilton and London Road was improved. By the 1830s, Brantford became a stop on the Underground Railroad , and a sizable number of runaway African-Americans settled in the town. From the 1830s to the 1860s – several hundred people of African descent settled in

2107-526: The telephone was invented in Boston , where Alexander Graham Bell did a great deal of work on the development of the device. However, Bell confirmed Brantford as the birthplace of the device in a 1906 speech: "the telephone problem was solved, and it was solved at my father's home". At the unveiling of the Bell Memorial on 24 October 1917, Bell reminded the attendees that "Brantford is right in claiming

2156-475: The tournament to the Shawinigan Xtreme 3–2 in the first game, the Blast defeated the Bentley Generals 5–3 to clinch second in their division. They defeated the Robertson Cup and EOSHL champion Whitby Dunlops in the quarter-final handily, 7–2. They then knocked off the Major League Hockey and Renwick Cup champion Dundas Real McCoys in the semi-final 3–2 in overtime. They met Bentley again in

2205-431: The town by 1869. Some of these factories included Brantford Engine Works, Victoria Foundry and Britannia Foundry. Several major farm implement manufacturers, starting with Cockshutt and Harris, opened for business in the 1870s. The history of the Brantford region from 1793 to 1920 is described at length in the book At The Forks of The Grand . In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Canadian government encouraged

2254-632: The welfare of his people. Brant initiated the opening of schools and, from 1828, served as the first native Superintendent of the Six Nations. Chief Brant was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Haldimand in 1830 and was the first aboriginal Canadian in Parliament. The stone and brick Brant County Courthouse was built on land purchased from the Six Nations in 1852. The structure housed courtrooms, county offices,

2303-480: The well-paying and steady employment that allowed Brantford to sustain economic growth through most of the 20th century. By the 1980s and 1990s, Brantford's economy was in steady decline due to changes in heavy industry and its restructuring. Numerous companies suffered bankruptcies, such as White Farm Equipment , Massey Ferguson (and its successor, Massey Combines Corporation), Koering-Waterous, Harding Carpets, and other manufacturers. The bankruptcies and closures of

2352-440: Was added to the Greater Golden Horseshoe along with Haldimand and Northumberland counties. In February 2019, Brantford's unemployment rate stood at 4.6% – lower than Ontario's rate of 5.6%. Brantford has a humid continental climate ( Dfb ) with warm to hot summers and cold, moderately snowy winters, though not severe by Canadian standards. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Brantford had

2401-420: Was located in Brantford and operated from about 1879 until Cowherd's death in 1881. The first telephone business office which opened in 1877, not far from the Bell Homestead, was located in what is now Brantford. The combination of events has led to Brantford calling itself "The Telephone City". Brantford is located within the County of Brant; however, it is a single-tier municipality, politically separate from

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