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The city was first settled in 1784 when Captain Joseph Brant and his troop of Six Nations Indians escaped New York to settle in Canada. Brantford was incorporated in 1877.
Due to the fame of its prominent citizen, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and its large telephone manufacturing enterprise the City is know as The Telephone City. The first long distance telephone call was made on August 10, 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell from the family homestead in Brantford, to his assistant located in Paris, Ontario.
Famous Brantford natives include actor Phil Hartman and hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky.
Several manufacturers are based in Brantford. The city is also home to a satellite campus of Wilfrid Laurier University.