Brantford

For other uses, see Brantford (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Brentford or Bradford, Ontario.

Brantford
City (single-tier)
City of Brantford
From top, left to right: Flowerbed outside RBC Building, Statue of Joseph Brant, Colborne Street in Downtown Brantford, Bell Homestead, City Hall, Grand River
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Brantford Location within Southern Ontario
Coordinates: 43°09′25″N 80°15′27″W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
County	Brant (independent)
Established	May 31, 1877
Government
• Mayor	Kevin Davis
• Governing Body	Brantford City Council
• MP	Larry Brock (Conservative)
• MPP	Will Bouma (Progressive Conservative)
Area
• Land	98.65 km2 (38.09 sq mi)
• Metro	1,074.00 km2 (414.67 sq mi)
Elevation	248 m (814 ft)
Population  (2021)
• City (single-tier)	104,688 (53rd)
• Density	1,061.2/km2 (2,748/sq mi)
• Metro	144,162 (30th)
• Metro density	134.2/km2 (348/sq mi)
Gross Metropolitan Product
• Brantford CMA	CA$6.1 billion (2020)
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Forward sortation area	N3P to N3V
Area codes	519, 226, and 548
Website	www.brantford.ca

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Brantford is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County but 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 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 resident Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone at his father's homestead, Melville House, now the Bell Homestead National Historic Site, located in Tutela Heights south of the city.