"Yes Jim, I'm Convinced Brantford is Our Best Move": 1960s Promotional Brochure for Brantford, Ontario
Description
- Creator
- Johnson-Adams-Nicholson Ltd., Producer
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Brochures
- Description
- This brochure was planned and produced by Johnson-Adams-Nicholson Ltd., Brantford, Ontario. It informs potential visitors, residents, and businesses considering moving to Brantford about the businesses and services in the city and contains data from the late 1950s about local industry. It features a conversation between two illustrated men named Jim and Bill about moving to Brantford.
- Notes
- While the brochure is undated, it can be placed at approximately 1960. This is due to the inclusion of data regarding the expansion of local industry in Brantford which stops at 1959. Therefore, the brochure was likely published in the early 1960s.
Information about the city of Brantford in this brochure may not remain accurate. For updated information about tourism in Brantford, or to discover events and locations to visit around the city, visitors are encouraged to visit the Discover Brantford desk or to access the Discover Brantford website. The site can be reached by searching "Discover Brantford" in your preferred internet browser, or access the site via the link provided at the bottom of this webpage under "Other Web sites/External links".
The site contains visitor guides, event calendars, itineraries, and other helpful information for visitors to the City of Brantford. Also accessible via the Discover Brantford website is the Brantford Tourism Blog, "Local Love", offering a fantastic guide to all things local: from arts and culture to food and drink. - Date of Publication
- 1960
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Brantford Regional Chamber of Commerce ; Airetool Canada Limited ; Allen-Ritchie Company Limited ; Atlas Powder Company Canada, Ltd. ; Barber-Ellis of Canada Limited ; Barnard Foundries Limited ; The BauerBros. C. (Canada) Ltd. ; Bay State Abrasive Products Co. (Canada) Ltd. ; Bead-X of Canada Limited ; Beare Brass Foundry ; Behr-Manning (Canada) Limited ; Bell City Foundry (Brantford) Ltd. ; Bradley Machine Company Limited ; BrantCo Machine & Tool Company Ltd. ; Brantford Brick Limited ; Brantford Clay Products Limited ; Brantford Coach & Body Limited ; The Brantford Cordage Company ; Brantford Mechanical Devices Ltd. ; Brantford Molded Plastics Limited ; Brantford Oven & Rack Company Ltd. ; Brantford Paper Box Company Ltd. ; Brantford Precision Limited ; Brantford Welding & Boiler Limited ; Bridgwater Machine Co. (Canada) Ltd. ; Canada Glue Company Limited ; The Canada Valve & Hydrant Co. Ltd. ; Canadian Blue Bird Coach Limited ; Canadian Celanese Limited ; Canadian Westinghouse Company Ltd. ; Cataphote (Canada) Limited ; Carhayes Limited ; Chicago Rawhide MFG. Co. of Canada Ltd. ; Coca-Cola Limited ; Cockshutt Farm Equipment Limited ; Crompton Parkinson Electrical Ltd. ; Crown Electrical Manufacturing Ltd. ; Delta Chemicals Limited ; Dominion Signs Limited ; Dust Control Services Limited ; Eagle Precision Tool Limited ; Leonard Elliott Tools Limited ; Fibre Products of Canada Limited ; Firth Sterling (Canada) Limited ; France Packing of Canada Limited ; Gaco Products Limited ; Gates Rubber of Canada Limited ; General Casting Company ; Goodwin Chuck Company Limited ; H&K Concrete Specialties Limited ; Hamilton Porcelains Limited ; Harding Carpets Limited ; Hartley Foundry Division ; Hussman Refrigerator Company Ltd. ; Hyde Spring & Wire (Canada) Limited ; S.C. Johnson & Son Limited ; Keeprite Products Limited ; Kester Solder Co. of Canada Limited ; Kitchen Overall & Shirt Co. Limited ; Koehring-Waterous Limited ; Ladish Company of Canada Limited ; L.C.S. Metals Corporation Limited ; L&J Plating Company Limited ; Lockwood Manufacturing Canada Ltd. ; McNicol Ropes Limited ; Marwal Plastics ; Massey-Ferguson Limited ; Micromatic Hone Limited ; J.E. Morris Wood & Metal Patterns ; H.E. Mott Company Limited ; Moulded Fibre Limited ; Murray-Brantford Limited ; Red Circle Concrete Products ; Renold Chains Canada Ltd. ; Robbins & Myers Co. of Canada Ltd. ; Ruff Clarkson Steel Limited ; Scarfe & Company Limited ; John Smyth Paint Manufacturing Co. ; Sonoco Products Company of Canada Ltd. ; A.G. Spalding & Bros. of Canada Ltd. ; Stainless Steel Products Limited ; The Steel Co. of Canada Limited ; Stericloth Products Company Limited ; G.F. Sterne & Sons Limited ; Stockton Wire Products Limited ; Sun-X Glass Tinting Co. of Canada Limited ; Super Oil Seal Manufacturing Co. Ltd. ; Sylva Products ; Texpack Limited ; Watson Manufacturing Company Ltd. ; George Weston Limited ; Worthington (Canada) Limited ; Wolverine Cement Company Limited ; York Farms, Division Canada Packers Limited
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.1334 Longitude: -80.26636
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- Donor
- Brantford Regional Chamber of Commerce
- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Brantford Public LibraryEmail:b4@brantfordlibrary.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:173 Colborne St.
Brantford, ON N3T 2G8
