Neighbourhood clowns

Founded around 1952, the Brampton Clown Band was a regular at town parades, carnivals, and other events for children. Founded by Andy Cuthbert, and taken over by Vic Carter upon Cuthbert’s death. During its existence, which was at least until Brampton’s Centennial in 1973, the band won awards from the St. Catherine’s Grape Festival Parade, performed at the Minden Winter Carnival for over a decade, at hospitals as far as Orillia and Weston, and toured the senior’s home circuit. Consisting of fifteen members at its peak, by Centennial only the leader, bass, snare drum, bass drum, and banjo players remained.

Manitoba’s Bramptonian premier

Born in Brampton in 1861, T.C. Norris entered politics in 1896 as the MPP for the Lansdowne riding of Manitoba. When the Liberal party chose him as leader in 1910, the party began a rise to victory in 1915. The Premier was re-elected in 1920, with Liberals taking twenty seats in the legislature, a minority government. He resigned as Premier, but the Lieutenant Governor encouraged him to stay Premier until an election could be held, in 1922. Norris remained an MPP for many years to come, becoming the Railway Commissioner in 1928. Bramptonian William Davis once served as Ontario premier.

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Note that there was another Manitoba premier from Brampton, Howard Pawley. I didn't know about him due to the fact I used really old books for research. I'll be writing about him later.