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Brandon, city, CanadaBrandon, city (1991 pop. 38,567), SW Man., Canada, on the Assiniboine River. The business center of the wheat-raising area of SW Manitoba, Brandon has an extensive trade in farm products and machinery. It is the seat of the annual provincial exhibition and of the Manitoba Winter Fair. A dominion experimental farm adjoins the city. Brandon Univ. is in the city. Brandon is named for the old Hudson's Bay Company post, Brandon House, built in 1793.Brandon, town, United StatesBrandon, uninc. town (1990 pop. 57,985), Hillsborough co., W Fla., a suburb just E of Tampa. Chiefly residential, it is also a retail and service center. Brandon has grown with the construction of highways connecting it to other Florida urban centers. Citrus fruits and vegetables are grown in the area, which also has cattle and dairy farms. |
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| One fine May morning, as she cantered along the avenue at Brandon Beeches on a powerful bay horse, the gates at the end opened and a young man sped through them on a bicycle. Colonel Brandon alone, of all the party, heard her without being in raptures. It was reckless of me, but I asked Lady Brandon to introduce me to him. |
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