Brown's Corners, Markham

Brown's Corners is an unincorporated community in Markham, Regional Municipality of York in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and located near the corner of Woodbine Avenue and Highway 7.

[1][3][4][5] The community, founded in 1842, was named for local settler Alexander Brown Sr. (1771–1851) who acquired 100 acres (40 ha) in 1838.

By the 1960s, farms began to disappear giving way to industrial and retail development in the 1970s and 1980s.

[11] Lost heritage buildings of the community include the Galloway House 1858–1995, and Brown's Corners Inn or The Derry West Hotel c. 1877.

A list of business located in the area and on the former Brown's farm: