Our Town - Brantford, The Telephone City

Brantford is a city located on the Grand River in south-western Ontario, Canada. This single-tier municipality was once part of Brant County. The city had a population of 90,192 in the Canada 2006 Census.

Brantford, geographically surrounded by Brant, is connected to Woodstock in the west and Hamilton in the east by Highway 403 and to Cambridge to the north by Highway 24. Highway 424, connecting Highway 401 from Cambridge to Highway 403 in Brantford, is in the planning stages.

Brantford is sometimes known by the nickname The Telephone City, after one of the city's most famous former residents, Alexander Graham Bell.