Peel's "County Town"

Brampton hosts most of the Region of Peel’s offices, from the police to the health department. This is thanks to an 1865 vote, which established the “County Town”. After splitting from what is York Region, Peel polled for the location of their municipal government, via a write-in ballot. Brampton won with a landslide of 2311 votes, easily beating runner Malton’s 494 votes. Port Credit was the only other village to get more than 100 ballots to its name. Of the thirty “places” suggested, eleven received only a single vote. Two of those were pranks, suggesting “At Home” and “Dilley Tom”.