Brantford
Brantford [ bɹænfərd ] is a city that is surrounded by Brant, in the Canadian province of Ontario.
It owes its name to the Mohawk chief Joseph Brant, on whose land it stands partially. At the 2006 census, the city had 90,192 inhabitants. Your most famous former citizens, Alexander Graham Bell, the city owes the nickname The Telephone City. Current Mayor Mike Hancock.
Economy
The company Cockshutt had since its inception in 1877 is based in Brantford and also chatted here a work which was closed in 1985. Until 1988, the town had a work by Massey Ferguson.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Shawn Antoski (born 1970 ), ice hockey player
- Eric Armstrong ( born 1963 ), animator
- Rob Blake (born 1969 ), ice hockey player
- Bill Cook (1896-1986), ice hockey player
- Wayne Gretzky ( born 1961 ), ice hockey player
- Phil Hartman (1948-1998), actor and screenwriter
- Keith Jones ( born 1968 ), ice hockey player
- Nick Kaczur ( born 1979 ), football player of the New England Patriots
- Michelle Nolden, Actress
- Sedon Walter, Elke, Merck, David Ing
- Adam Henrique (* 1990), ice hockey player