Brantford

(brantfərd)

city in SE Ontario, Canada: pop. 85,000

Origin: after Joseph Brant

See Brantford in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A city of southern Ontario, Canada, southwest of Toronto. It was named for the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, who is buried nearby. Alexander Graham Bell performed some of his early experiments in sound transmission here in the 1870s. Population: 90,200.
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