Vote for Brantford to Win a Spot on MONOPOLY Canada 

For Immediate Release
1/8/2010 
Contact: Melissa Stephens, Tourism Information Coordinator 
Phone: 519-751-9900 

Cities battle to earn their place on the new MONOPOLY Canada game board!

Hasbro, the makers of MONOPOLY, are launching a nation-wide vote to find Canada’s 22 favourite cities that will be included on the new MONOPOLY Canada game board in celebration of their 75th Anniversary.

Beginning January 11, 2010 at midnight ET and running until February 7, 2010, MONOPOLY fans can visit www.monopolyvote.ca to cast votes for their favourite Canadian cities. 65 great Canadian cities have been pre-selected for the top 20 city vote and Brantford is one of them! Canadians are invited to cast their ballots for their 3 favourite cities each day of the vote. You must visit the website, create a profile, and login each day to vote. You are only allowed to vote once per day during the contest period. The city that receives the most votes will be placed on the highest rent property traditionally held by Boardwalk.

The 20 cities that receive the most votes will be part of MONOPOLY history as the first cities selected to be on the Canadian game board through a consumer vote. However, two spaces on the board will be reserved for cities that are nominated through a wild card vote, which means that any Canadian city can be nominated for these 2 final spaces. Through your profile on www.monopolyvote.ca you can nominate a city once a day to be part of the wild card vote. Note that you cannot nominate one of the existing 65 pre-selected cities. Once the top 20 city vote is complete, the top ten wild card cities will then be put to a vote and the winning 2 cities will occupy the low-rent property spaces traditionally held by Mediterranean Avenue and Baltic Avenue. The wild card vote will take place from February 8, 2010 until February 21, 2010.

For 75 years the official MONOPOLY board has represented the most elite locations in individual cities. With the successful launches of both the MONOPOLY Here & Now: Electronic Banking Edition and MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition, Canadians were able to showcase their passion for MONOPOLY. With this new edition, Canadian consumers will now have an opportunity to vote for their favourite city to appear on the final game board for a MONOPOLY edition to truly call their own.

The cities voted onto the final game board will be announced in June 2010. The new MONOPOLY Canada Edition will be launched on Canada Day, July 1, 2010 and available in stores prior to launch.

“This is an exciting and unique opportunity for us to increase the level of awareness of Brantford to Canada and the world,” said Susan Sager, Manager of Tourism and Marketing for Tourism Brantford. So what are you waiting for Brantford, vote for your city to be on MONOPOLY today….and every day until February 7, 2010!

The 65 cities preselected for the nation-wide vote are:

  • Abbotsford Kamloops Saguenay
  • Barrie Kawartha Lakes Saint John
  • Belleville Kelowna Saint-Hyacinthe
  • Brampton Kingston Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu
  • Brandon Kitchener Sarnia
  • Brantford Laval Saskatoon
  • Calgary Lethbridge Sault Ste. Marie
  • Cape Breton London Shawinigan
  • Charlottetown Medicine Hat Sherbrooke
  • Chatham-Kent Mississauga St. Catharines
  • Chilliwack Moncton St. John’s
  • Drummondville Montreal Thunder Bay
  • Edmonton Nanaimo Toronto
  • Fredericton Norfolk County Trois-Rivieres
  • Gatineau North Bay Vancouver
  • Granby Oshawa Victoria
  • Grande Prairie Ottawa Whitehorse
  • Greater Sudbury Peterborough Windsor
  • Guelph Prince George Winnipeg
  • Halifax Quebec City Wood Buffalo
  • Hamilton Red Deer Yellowknife
  • Iqaluit Regina
  • Kamloops
  • Kawartha Lakes
  • Kelowna
  • Kingston
  • Kitchener
  • Laval
  • Lethbridge
  • London
  • Medicine Hat
  • Missisauga
  • Moncton
  • Montreal
  • Nanaimo
  • Norfolk County
  • North Bay
  • Oshawa
  • Peterborough
  • Prince George 
  • Quebec City
  • Red Deer
  • Regina
  • Saguenay
  • Saint John
  • Saint-Hyacinthe
  • Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu
  • Sarnia
  • Saskatoon
  • Sault Ste. Marie
  • Shawinigan
  • Sherbrooke
  • St. Catharines
  • St. John's
  • Thunder Bay
  • Toronto
  • Trois-Rivieres
  • Vancouver
  • Victoria
  • Whitehorse
  • Windsor
  • Winnipeg
  • Wood Buffalo
  • Yellowknife 

These 65 cities were selected based on their population and representation of all provinces.

For more information about this contest please contact Melissa Stephens, Tourism Information Coordinator at 519-751-9900 ext. 203, mstephens@brantford.ca.