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The company was founded as The Brick Warehouse LP by brothers, John, Fred, and Bill Comrie. The first warehouse opened on September 1, 1971 in Edmonton , Alberta . Its first expansion was to Fort McMurray , Alberta in the 1970s and later acquired a competitor in the city of Calgary .
1992 Recognized - Register of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings Brantford, Ontario: Centrally located near the War Memorial, this Baronial style drill hall with a low-pitched gable roof is fronted by a monumental, fortress-like façade of brick and stone. Houses the 56th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA. Brockville Armoury
Lawrence J. Brock is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Brantford—Brant in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2021 Canadian federal election. [1] Prior to his election, he was the assistant Crown attorney for Brantford. [2]
Brantford (2021 population: 104,688 [2]) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independent of the county's municipal government.
Much of the County's early population began arriving in the 1820s as the Hamilton and London Road was improved and settlement increased after 1848 when navigation to Brantford was opened and again in 1854 with the arrival of the railway to Brantford. The stone and brick Brant County Courthouse was built on land purchased from the Six Nations in ...
In 1798, it was described as a large and sprawling settlement. Brant's home was a two-story house, built in a European-American style. In 1797, Brant founded one of the earliest Masonic Lodges in Upper Canada; he achieved the rank of its Worshipful Master. Governor John Simcoe confirmed the Grant with a limited deed on January 14, 1793. Also ...
Comrie was born on June 29, 1950, in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. [3]He played junior hockey with the Moose Jaw Canucks, a Chicago Blackhawks farm team, and later the Edmonton Oil Kings, but retired from hockey in 1968 to enter into the family furniture business following the death of his father Herb, [3] eventually turning down an invitation to a Blackhawks training camp.
Originally known as Four Corners and Steene's Corners after an early settler, much of the area of what is now Seaforth was acquired by brothers Christopher and George Sparling in anticipation of the construction of the Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich Railway. Developer James Patton of Barrie purchased the land and laid out a townsite in 1855.