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Brantford

American  
[brant-ferd] / ˈbrænt fərd /

noun

  1. a city in S Ontario, in SE Canada, near Lake Erie.


Brantford British  
/ ˈbræntfəd /

noun

  1. a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)

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The expense of running these investigations and the ensuing “thorny issues” make Mr. Big operations a tool of last resort, but an important one, said Richard Boyington, a retired sergeant from Brantford, Ontario.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2023

Earlier this year Zurich-based Barry Callebaut said it was spending $104 million to build a new factory in Brantford, Ontario, to produce sugar-free chocolate and other speciality products.

From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2022

Barry Callebaut has started building a new facility in Brantford, Ontario, its third in Canada and first to be built in the Americas since 2008.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022

It was a pattern of decline the retired Canadian engineer from Brantford, Ontario was all too familiar with.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2019

Not one has yet been seen which bore a date in 1858 even, and one 6d. from the Seybold collection, which was dated at Brantford, Dec. 29, 1857, turned out to be bad.

From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Howes, Clifton Armstrong