City of Brantford

Introduction

Brantford became a city in 1917, but was first settled 100 years earlier. It was named "Brant's Ford" because it lay at a point along the Grand River where the Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant was known to cross. It was a flourishing industrial town in the mid 19^th century with both rail and Grand River canal transportation.

Library Materials

B 720 RUS 1967 (Booklet) Russel, Paul / Brantford: sketches of a town

B 770 MES Message without a code - a photographic exhibition of Brantford History

B 910 SIG Signposts : origins of street and road names of Brant County and Brantford

B 917.13 DIR 1875-1876 (Book) Directory of Brantford 1875-1876 (Photocopy)

B 917.1347 1983 (Book) County of Brant gazetteer and directory 1869-1870: Township of Brantford

B 917.1347 BRA 1952 (Book) Robert F. Brown, comp. / A guide to historical Brantford and Brant County

B 917.1347 BTF VER (Book)Vernon's City of Brantford directory (1924-1997)

B 921 DUN FOW 1985 (Book) Fowler, Marian / Redney: a life of Sara Jeannette Duncan

B 971.347 BRA 1984 (Booklet) / The Brantford Album

B 971.347 BTF BRA 1997-1998 (Book) / The way we were - glimpses of Brantford's past

B 971.347 BTF HIS 1967 (Booklet) / A history of ours: French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish &Ukrainian

B 971.347 BTF KEM 1986 (Book) Kempster, Janet and Muir, Gary / Brantford: Grand River crossing

B 971.347 BTF REM 1977 (Book) / Remember Brantford 1877-1977

B 971.347 BTF SAM 1979 (Book) / The sampler: a book about Brantford

B 971.348 BRA 1946 (Booklet) Commission, Brantford Industrial / Industrail Survey Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Brantford Church Materials

Church materials include: church histories, membership lists and lists of vital statisitics. We have assorted materials for the following Brantford Churches:

• •Cainsville Wesleyan Methodist
• •St. Mary's Church
• •Grace Anglican church
• •His Majesty's chapelof the Mohawks
• •St. Jude's church
• •Church of St. John the Evangelist
• •St. Paul's Aanglican Church
• •Lutheran Church of Brantford
• •Central Presbyterian Church
• •Central Baptist Church
• •Bethel stone United church
• •Brant avenue United church
• •Cainsville United church
• •Colborne St. United Church
• •Sydenham United church
• •Zion United Church

Brantford Census Materials

B 929.3717 BRA Index to the 1851 Census of Brant County (Brantford Listed Separately)

B 929.3 BUR HAY 1901 Census of Brant County - full census for the City of Brantford

B 929.3 BRA 1861 (Book) Census records of the Town of Brantford, 1861

PUB 210 (Publication) / 1842 Census- Brantford & surrounding area

Brant County OGS Publications (not including Census)

PUB 043 (Publication) / Town of Brantford from the County of Brant Gazetteer and Directory for 1869-70

PUB 058 1984 (Publication) / Voters' list 1847 Town of Brantford

PUB 082 1986 (Publication) / Name, place and site index to Brant Historical Society's A Glimpse of the past: a Centennial history of Brantford and Brant County

Newspapers

B 050.9 BRA 1927 (Oversize) / The Brantford Expositor anniversary number: 1877 semi-centennial1927, incorporation of the City of Brantford

B 050.9 BRA 1916 (Oversize) / The Brantford Expositor: Christmas number 1916

B 050.9 BRA 1912 (Oversize) / The Christmas Expositor, December 1912, and the Expositor gala daysupplement, August 1898

B 050.9 BRA 1901 (Oversize) / The Expositor: Brantford, Ontario, 1909 special edition

B 050.9 CON 1853-1854 (Oversize) / The conservative expositor

MICR (Microfilm) / The Brantford expositor

Cemetery Records

Cemetery transcriptions for Brant County are extensive, and are listed by township in our publications brochure.

PUB 014 (Publication) / An alphabetically cross-referenced index of the Johnson Cemetery, Brantford Twp.

Maps

Tremaine's Map- 1858 - with Index

1875 Brant County Atlas

Vertical File

There is a Brant County Vertical File with clippings, notes and pamphlets arranged by topic and geographical area within Brant County.