County of Brant (Brant)
The County of Brant is a predominantly rural municipality in Southern Ontario. The County is bordered by the township of North Dumfries in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo; the City of Hamilton; Haldimand County; Norfolk County; and the townships of Blandford-Blenheim and Norwich in Oxford County. The County abuts the provincially-mandated Greenbelt. Although the city of Brantford is surrounded by the County, it is a fully independent city with its own municipal government. The Brant census division, which includes Brantford and the Six Nations and New Credit reserves along with the County of Brant, had a population of 144,771 in the 2021 census.
The County is named after Joseph Brant and was established in 1851. Brantford separated from the County when it incorporated as a city in 1877. Part of the County is situated on the Haldimand Tract, traditional territory of the Neutral, Mississauga, and Haudenosaunee peoples.
The area had previously been part of Wentworth and Oxford County. Brant County was formed in 1851 and originally consisted of:
* Brantford Township (Brantford, Paris, Mount Pleasant, Cainsville), Area 71122 acre. First settlement made before 1810. The township was organized in 1840.
* Burford Township (Burford, Scotland), Area 71122 acre. First of the midland townships to have settlers. Surveyed in 1793, four families settled on the land before 1800.
* Oakland Township (Scotland, Oakland), Area 10676 acre. Originally called the Townsend Gore, then the Burford Gore, but organized a separate municipality in 1850.
* Onondaga Township (Onondaga, Middleport), Area 20613 acre. First settled in 1838 within Oxford County. The formal surrender of the township by the Indians did not take place until 1839.
* South Dumfries Township (Paris, St. George, Glen Morris), Area 46265 acre.
* Tuscarora Township (Six Nations Indian Reserve, New Credit Indian Reserve), created in 1784.
Map - County of Brant (Brant)
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Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Currency / Language
| ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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| CAD | Canadian dollar | $ | 2 |
| ISO | Language |
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| EN | English language |
| FR | French language |
| IU | Inuktitut |