Hillsborough Park is part of Brantford, Ontario — a city with deep roots in Indigenous history, the Loyalist era, and the birthplace of the telephone.
Bell Homestead National Historic Site
Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first long-distance telephone call from his father's homestead in Tutela Heights, just minutes from West Brant. The Bell Homestead National Historic Site preserves the farmhouse and coach house where Bell conducted his early telephone experiments in the 1870s. Open seasonally for tours.
Notable People
Canadian activist
Canadian drummer
Canadian ice hockey player
Canadian television presenter
Canadian politician
Canadian academic and engineer
Canadian politician
Elisabeth Williams
Canadian amateur wrestler
Dale Sorensen
Canadian musician
Henry Duchemin
Canadian newspaper editor
Robert Hodgson (1798)
Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge
Edward Palmer (1809)
Canadian politician (1809-1889)
John Hamilton Gray (1811)
Canadian politician (1811-1887)
Benjamin Davies (1813)
Canadian merchant and political figure in Prince Edward Island (1813-1904)
Douglas Smith Huyghue (1816)
Canadian and Australian writer (1816–1891)
Thomas Heath Haviland (1822)
Canadian politician (1822-1895)
Lemuel Owen (1822)
Canadian politician (1822–1912)
Philip Francis Little (1824)
Canadian colonial leader
Joseph Ignatius Little (1835)
Canadian politician, lawyer and jurist
Samuel Prowse (1835)
Canadian politician
James H. Fletcher (1835)
American politician
Sarah Newcomb Merrick (1844)
Canadian-American educator, writer, business woman, physician
Louis Henry Davies (1845)
Canadian politician and 6th Chief Justice of Canada (1845-1924)
Patrick Blake (1846)
Canadian politician