Brantford, ON

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Brantford is a former industrial city of 97,000 people (2016) on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. "The Telephone City", it is where Alexander Graham Bell said he invented his telephone, and from where he placed the first long-distance call to nearby Paris (Ontario). His Tutela Heights home, south of the city, is an international tourist attraction. Brant County surrounds the City of Brantford. It had a population of 37,000 in 2016. It includes the pretty riverside community of Paris. The Brant census division includes the Six Nations Reserve, which has about 13,000 residents, but is not part of the county.