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Brantford

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Brant·ford  (brntfrd)
A city of southern Ontario, Canada, southwest of Toronto. It was named for the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, who is buried nearby. Alexander Graham Bell performed some of his early experiments in sound transmission here in the 1870s. Population: 90,200.
Brantford [ˈbræntfəd]
n
(Placename) a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop.: 84 764 (1996)


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And so, to save his life, he and his father and mother set sail from Glasgow and came to the small Canadian town of Brantford, where for a year he fought down his tendency to consumption, and satisfied his nervous energy by teaching "Visible Speech" to a tribe of Mohawk Indians.
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