Rural Brant

Rural Brant covers about 33,700 hectares of the County of Brant: the farmland north of Paris and Brantford out to the Waterloo Region and Hamilton lines, and the countryside west of Paris to the Oxford County line, as far south as Highway 53 and Burford. Burford is the largest village, and Glen Morris, Harrisburg, Falkland, Cathcart, Muir and Gobles are hamlets among the farms. Glen Morris sits beside the Grand River, and the Paris to Cambridge rail trail and the Grand Valley Trail follow the river north.

This countryside takes in parts of three old townships: South Dumfries, with St. George and Glen Morris; Burford, first surveyed in 1793 and settled by four families before 1800; and the northern concessions of Brantford Township. Burford, once called Claremont, grew up on the old trail from Burlington Bay to the Thames and was known as Oxford's gateway. The townships joined the Town of Paris on January 1, 1999, to form the County of Brant.

These figures are estimates for the countryside inside the approved edge, from the census areas shared out by the County's address points. They come to about 3,060 homes, nearly nine in ten of them single detached houses. About a third were built in 1960 or earlier and about a quarter between 1961 and 1980. About one in five were built between 1981 and 2000, and about one in six in 2001 or later.

Highway 403 crosses the south of this area between Woodstock and Brantford, Highway 24 runs north through St. George to Cambridge, and Highway 53 runs west from Brantford through Burford. County roads link the farms and hamlets with Paris, St. George and Burford, and Brant Transit, the County's pre-booked shared-ride service, serves the whole County.

Burford has the Burford Community Centre with its arena, the Burford branch of the County of Brant Public Library on Park Avenue, two paved trails, Lions Way and Art Cadman, and the Burford Fall Fair, held each Thanksgiving weekend since 1893 at the Burford fairgrounds. Glen Morris Centennial Hall is on Dunbar Street, and the County's cycling loops from Paris and St. George run through Falkland and Glen Morris.

• Burford District Elementary School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for Burford and the west side, including Cathcart, Muir and Gobles, on Alexander Street in Burford, with French immersion from Grade 1.
• Glen Morris Central Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for Glen Morris and the farms around it, including Lockie Road, on Glen Morris Road East.
• St. George-German Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for Harrisburg and the country around St. George, in St. George.
• North Ward Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for the farms just north of Paris, including Keg Lane, in Paris.
• Paris District High School — Grades 9 to 12. The public secondary school for all of Rural Brant, in Paris.
• Blessed Sacrament Catholic Elementary School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary school for Burford and the west side, on King Street in Burford.
• Sacred Heart Catholic Elementary School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary school for Glen Morris, in Paris, with French immersion from Grade 1.
• Our Lady of Providence Catholic Elementary School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary school for Harrisburg and Lockie Road, in Brantford.
• Holy Family Catholic Elementary School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary school for the farms just north of Paris, in Paris.
• Assumption College School — Grades 9 to 12. The Catholic secondary school for Burford and the west side, on Shellard Lane in Brantford.
• St. John's College — Grades 9 to 12. The Catholic secondary school for Glen Morris, Harrisburg and the north, on Paris Road in Brantford.
• École Confédération and St. Leo Catholic Elementary School — Grades 1 to 8 in French immersion. The French immersion schools for Harrisburg, in Brantford.
• Brantford Collegiate Institute — Grades 9 to 12. Grand Erie's French immersion secondary school for Brant and Brantford from 2026-27, in Brantford.