Cainsville, Ontario

Cainsville is a community straddling the boundary of Brantford and Brant County in Ontario, Canada.

Cainsville started off as a rural Black Canadian settlement called Bunnell's Landing.[1] Joseph Brant had given an initial land grant to a handful of free, formerly enslaved Africans. Throughout the 1800's other black settlers, who were not part of the original land grant, purchased land in the area to be close to a larger black community.[2] Most of the settlers were African American freedom seekers or descendants of those who had escaped to the area through the Underground Railroad.[3]

Ontario Highway 53, runs through the community. This was the main East-West provincial highway until the completion of Highway 403 in 1997, which reduced the use of Highway 53 to local traffic. The Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails, part of the Southern loop of the Trans Canada Trail runs through Cainsville.[4]