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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.
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Originally inhabited by the Neutral, the surrounding area was part of a large land grant of the British government in 1784 to the Six Nations (see Haldimand Proclamation). With this grant, the British sought to reward the Six Nations’ loyalty during the American War of Independence and compensate them for the loss of their land in the Mohawk Valley...
Brantford’s industries include advanced manufacturing (e.g., automotive and automation), food and beverage manufacturing, and plastics and rubberproducts. Its other key sectors are film, television, digital media and warehousing and distribution. The city is also noted for being an educational centre. It is home to Six Nations Polytechnic, campuses...
Brantford is the site of the oldest Protestant church in Ontario, Her Majesty’s Chapel of the Mohawks, built in 1785 with a grant from King George III. Joseph Brant and his son John Brant (Ahyonwaeghs)are buried in the churchyard. The Bell Homestead, a national historic site designated in 1997, includes Bell’s restored residence and Henderson House...
Proud of the world-changing discovery that Alexander Graham Bell had made in Brantford in 1874, “The Telephone City” as it had become known, celebrated the telephone and the inventor with the unveiling of the Bell Memorial in 1917.
It has been called the Telephone City, and rightly so. For it was in the immediate neighborhood of Brantford that Dr. Graham Bell invented the well-known Bell telephone.
Oct 22, 2012 · A visit to the "new" downtown of this city of 90,000 will find quite a change since it was used as a setting for a ghost town in the 2006 horror flick, Silent Hill.
The telephone inventor, under oath, stated that the Gallows Frame telephone -- which is acknowledged to be the world's first telephone -- was invented in Brantford, Canada, although the instrument was fabricated in Boston.
Jul 5, 2024 · This period also marked the city’s nickname, “The Telephone City,” as it was here that Alexander Graham Bell conducted some of his earliest experiments and made the first long-distance telephone call in 1876 from Brantford to Paris, Ontario (Francis, 2019; City of Brantford, n.d.).
