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Brampton is a city with an area of 266.53 km² and a population of 415,000 people Search and find companies, telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses in the Business Directory Brampton Brampton, Ontario is a city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada, located in Peel Regional Municipality. It celebrated its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2003, marking 150 years since its incorporation as a village in 1853, taking its name from the rural village near Chesterfield in England. Major companies include Ford, Nortel, Para Paints, a Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, Nestlé, DaimlerChrysler Canada Ltd., Maple Lodge Farms, Zellers, Frito Lay Canada and Humpty Dumpty. Brampton was once known as The Flowertown of Canada, a title it earned due to the city s large greenhouse industry, which included Dale s Flowers, a company that won many international rose awards for nearly half a century. Cultural entities in the city are "umbrellaed" by the Brampton Arts Council. They include Visual Arts Brampton and the Brampton Symphony Orchestra. Also in the city is the Peel Heritage Complex, which is run by the Region of Peel. The city is home to reserve brigade The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment). The City of Brampton Citizens Award honours Long Term Service in volunteerism, Sports Achievement, and Arts Acclaim, the later two "designed to identify Brampton residents whose achievements have been recognized at the Provincial, National or International level".