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Google Trike in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, August 23, 2012. On March 19, 2013, the Nunavut city of Iqaluit was imaged. Rather than shipping a car or using a trike, the city was imaged using backpack-mounted cameras for three days. One of the people involved, Chris Kalluk, was responsible for Google mapping Cambridge Bay, his home town. [6]
Brantford is known as the "Telephone City" because the city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone at his father's homestead, Melville House, now the Bell Homestead, located in Tutela Heights south of the city. Brantford is also known as the birthplace and hometown of Wayne Gretzky and Phil Hartman.
Burford is a rural community and is part of the County of Brant, in central southwestern Ontario.It has 1,058 residents (2021 Census [2]).It is located eight kilometres west of the City of Brantford along Highway 53, and seventy kilometres east of London, Ontario.
[2] [3] [4] 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. [5]
Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation.
On June 4, 1930 a more direct routing between Brantford and Cambridge was established; the route between Paris and Cambridge was renumbered as Highway 24A. [9] As a result, the concurrency between Highway 2 and Highway 24 was reduced, with Highway 24 now departing Highway 2 in Brantford, along St. Paul Avenue and King George Road. [10]
The Bell Homestead National Historic Site, located in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, also known by the name of its principal structure, Melville House, was the first North American home of Professor Alexander Melville Bell and his family, including his last surviving son, scientist Alexander Graham Bell.
Highway 2 and Highway 53 split southwest of Ancaster. The route of former Highway 53 began in the west at Oxford County Road 2, formerly Highway 2. From the community of Eastwood, which lies east of Woodstock, the road travelled southeast as Oxford County Road 55 and crosses Highway 403, with which there is an interchange. [5]