Brown's Line

Brown's Line

This photo of Brown's Line about 1920 is from the plaque below. Brown's Line starts at Lake Shore Blvd West in the former town of Long Branch and runs north. The section north of Evans Avenue was widened and converted into an expressway and renamed 427 many years ago. An Etobicoke Historical Board/TD Bank plaque here on the north-west corner of Brown's Line and Horner Avenue tells us about this historic road:

In 1793 approximately 650 hectares of land was granted to Colonel Samuel Smith, a vast tract of forest bounded by what is now Kipling Avenue, Bloor Street, Etobicoke Creek and Lake Ontario. After his death in 1826, the Smith tract was divided into concessions and the names O'Connor, Sandford, Horner, Evans and Brown are prominent on early maps of the area. Joseph Brown emigrated from Yorkshire, England in 1831 and shortly after his arrival he became the first permanent settler, establishing a farm on Concession III, just north of what is now Evans Avenue. The dirt track leading to this farm was called "Brown's Line", a name that continues to this day.

Location Co-ordinates: 43.601745 -79.545511

Map Brown's Line

Photo by Alan L Brown - May 2007

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