Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0History around Brown's Corners: 54 designated places within 25 km
Homes from before 1961 are 1.1% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. Richmond Hill, 8.2 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
Nearest to Brown's Corners: “Canadian National Railway Station, Unionville, Ontario”, 2.6 km away
Oldest of them is Ashbridge Estate (1793), 21 km off. They are spread over 30 towns, including Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Aurora. All told, 54 places are within 25 km.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Canadian National Railway Station, Unionville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 2.6 km away, in Unionville |
| Markham Village Town HallDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1881 · 6.9 km away, in Markham Village |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Markham, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 7 km away, in Markham Village |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Maple, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1903–1904 · 13 km away, in Hope |
| Montgomery's TavernNational Historic Site · 1837 · 17 km away, in Yonge-Eglinton |
| Aurora Radial Railway Bridge AbutmentDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1899 · 17 km away, in Aurora |
| Eglinton TheatreNational Historic Site · 1935–1937 · 18 km away, in Lawrence Park South |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 18 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Aurora, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 19 km away, in Aurora |
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 19 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Hillary HouseNational Historic Site · 1861–1863 · 19 km away, in Aurora |
| Balmoral Fire HallNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 19 km away, in Yonge-St.Clair |
Within 25 km of Brown's Corners, the record goes back to 1793
The area here stretches to 25 km around Brown's Corners: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Dated places within 25 km: 52. Before Confederation: 17. Ashbridge Estate, in Greenwood-Coxwell, goes back furthest, to 1793.
Brown's Corners is still building: 15% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Only 18% of Brown's Corners’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Brown's Corners built little from 1961 to 1980: 1.2% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 64% of Brown's Corners’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Brown's Corners compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,200 to 7,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Hope, La Sarre and Saint-Paul have more. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Brown's Corners and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown's Corners | 7,228 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Buttonville | 15,001 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Unionville | 17,632 | 1 | 0 | 1871 |
| Cachet | 6,361 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Underwood | 5,972 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hagerman's Corners | 43,555 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Milliken | 12,138 | 0 | 0 | — |
Brown's Corners in brief
Counted by age, only 1.1% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
Questions about Brown's Corners’s history
How many historic places does Brown's Corners have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Brown's Corners; Canadian National Railway Station, Unionville, Ontario, in Unionville, is 2.6 km away.
How old are the homes in Brown's Corners?
The 2021 Census dates 1.1% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).