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  1. Brandon ( / ˈbrændən /) is the second-largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the southwestern corner of the province on the banks of the Assiniboine River, approximately 214 km (133 mi) west of the provincial capital, Winnipeg, and 120 km (75 mi) east of the Saskatchewan border.

  2. Last Edited September 19, 2023. Brandon, Manitoba, incorporated as a city in 1882, population 51,313 (2021 census ), 48,883 (2016 census). The City of Brandon, the province's second-largest city and economic hub of its southwestern region, is located on the Assiniboine River, 197 km west of Winnipeg.

  3. 3 days ago · Brandon, city, southwestern Manitoba, Canada, lying on the Assiniboine River, 131 miles (211 km) west of Winnipeg. It was first settled in the late 1870s and was formally founded after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1881) near the last of three Hudson’s Bay Company trading posts at this location.

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  5. Brandon is the second-largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the southwestern corner of the province on the banks of the Assiniboine River, approximately 214 km (133 mi) west of the provincial capital, Winnipeg, and 120 km (75 mi) east of the Saskatchewan border.

  6. Our History. On July 12, 1882, the Brandon City Police Force came into being. The Force's first members were Chief Constable Archibald L. McMILLAN and two Constables, Donald CAMPBELL and John M. KEAYS. In the early years, the Force was primarily concerned with breaking up fistfights, raiding houses of ill-repute of which there were many, and ...

  7. Brandon is a city of 49,000 people (2016) in southwestern Manitoba about an hour north of the North Dakota border. Brandon is the second-largest city in the province, after Winnipeg. Brandon is known as a city that is not too big to be impersonal, but not so small that it lacks the amenities of large cities.

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