His maternal uncle was William Henry Moore, Member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1930 to 1945.
His childhood home moved according to his father's changes of pulpits from their ancestral village of Brownsville, to Brantford to Hamilton to West Toronto, Ontario.
"The general secretary of the Fellowship [of Evangelical Baptist Churches], Dr. J. M. Watt, presented Dr. Brown with an illuminated citation.
[5] His peers in the Evangelical Theology Society commented on his passing by noting that "thousands of workers in mission fields in far-off continents and in flourishing centers in Canada received their best inspiration and preparation for service from him.
"[6] Even though Brown was a third generation Baptist preacher, and a notable leader in a conservative branch of that denomination, his brother L. Douglas Brown served as an assistant priest at St. George's Anglican Church in Guelph, Ontario, and eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and was ordained in 1949 as a Roman Catholic priest.