Brantford, city, S Ont., Canada, on
the Grand River. It is a leading manufacturing city, noted particularly for
its large farm implement factories. The city was named for the Mohawk
chieftain Joseph Brant, who led
the Six Nations of the Iroquois to the region after the American Revolution
and who is buried in the old Mohawk Church near the city. The Mohawk
Institute, a Native American residential school, is nearby. Alexander Graham
Bell was living in Brantford in 1876 when he made his first successful
experiment in the transmission of sound by electric wire. A museum, formerly
his home, exhibits the first telephone.
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