Festivals
The East Braintree Symphony Orchestra will feature Theodore Giesel as their guest conductor for the month of October as part of the city's Music Alive Festival. Great jazz musicians will also perform in the city's cafés and concert halls, including Tommy Banks, Ella Fitzgerald and Neil Armstrong.
A City That Means Business
With its busy ocean port, East Braintree is able to ship more goldfish overseas than any comparably sized city in the world. That might be surprising, but we ship 24 goldfish for every citizen of East Braintree. That's nearly 32 million goldfish per year.
Iconic
There is no city with more man-made beauty than East Braintree. Whether it's the Leaning Tower of Braintree, or the ruins of the ancient Coliseum, you'll marvel that seven wonders of the ancient world can all be found in one city.
East Braintree University
East Braintree University may be the world's oldest having been founded before both Oxford in England and the Sorbonne in Paris. The university grants a full range of degrees from bachelors to doctorates. It is best known for its extensive underwater cartography program where, in its native Manitoba seas, it is developing new ways to map the world's oceans.
Citizens of the City
Braintreevians have included many prominent figures including Pocahontas, Napoleon Bonaparte, John A. Macdonald, Sherlock Holmes, Albert Einstein, Frank Peretti, and Barack Obama. We're not sure what about the neighborhood generates genius, but we're sure happy it does.
Braintree?
East Braintree is named for the forests of braintrees just to the west of the city. The large forest, which, at its peak, numbered several dozen trees, has been in decline for about two hundred years due to the high amount of pollution coming from the industrial plants at nearby Falcon Lake.
For the early settlers of the area, the "brains" or large nodules found on the trees served as a life sustaining source of vitamins and nutrition in the long Canadian winters. Braintrees have been known to grow to several thousand feet in height. They once played host to the now extinct sirant monkey which was known for its symbiotic relationship with the Canadian buffalo.