Brown's Corners, Markham

{{For|the Brown's Corners nearby in Toronto|Brown's Corners, Toronto}}

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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.{{cite web|url= http://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/CLAIMaps/Index.html?site=CLAIMaps&viewer=CLAIMaps&locale=en-US |title= CLAIMaps IV|publisher= Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines|date= 2016|access-date= 2018-07-03}}{{cite map|url= http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/map/images/pdf/southont/sheets/Map3.pdf |format= PDF|title= Map 3|series= Official road map of Ontario|publisher= Ministry of Transportation of Ontario|scale= 1 : 700,000|date= 2016-01-01|accessdate= 2018-07-03}}{{cite map|url= http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6577|title= Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #6|year= 2006|series= Restructuring Maps of Ontario|publisher= Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing|accessdate= 2018-07-03|archive-date= 2021-02-24|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210224141854/http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6577|url-status= dead}} The community, founded in 1842, was named for local settler Alexander Brown Sr. (1771–1851) who acquired {{convert|100|acre|ha}} in 1838.For a fuller account of the history of Brown's Corners, see Isabel Champion, ed., [http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=4109294&qryID=0e20c07d-bc5d-446f-bc4f-355b0519e7a6 Markham: 1793-1900] (Markham, ON: Markham Historical Society, 1979), pp. 231-233; 113; 143; 180f. Also: {{cite web |url=http://brownscorners.ca/history.html |title=History - Brown's Corners United Church |publisher=Brown's Corners United Church |accessdate=2010-04-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128075137/http://brownscorners.ca/history.html |archivedate=2009-11-28 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.hpd.mcl.gov.on.ca/scripts/hpdsearch/english/popupSearch.asp?pid=10152 |title=Property Information |publisher=Hpd.mcl.gov.on.ca |accessdate=2010-04-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706192329/http://www.hpd.mcl.gov.on.ca/scripts/hpdsearch/english/popupSearch.asp?pid=10152 |archivedate=2011-07-06 }}{{cite book|last=Charles Pelham Mulvany, Graeme Mercer Adam|title=History of Toronto and county of York, Ontario |publisher=C. Blackett Robinson, Publisher|location=Toronto|year=1885|quote=The smaller unincorporated villages of the township include Gormley's Corners, Almira, Victoria Square, Headford, Cashel, Milnesville and Mongolia, in the northern portion, and Dollar, Brown's Corners, Hagerman's Corners, Milliken, ...|url=https://archive.org/details/historytorontoa00goog|page=[https://archive.org/details/historytorontoa00goog/page/n141 123]|accessdate=April 9, 2010}} Beaver Creek flows through it.

The community is mixed into another unincorporated community of Buttonville, Ontario.