Browns Line

Browns Line is a short arterial route in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada (now part of Toronto), spanning only two kilometres between Evans Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard. The road is named for local farmer Joseph Brown, who owned farmland along Etobicoke Creek from Dundas Street to Bloor Street. Browns Line is an important north-south artery under the jurisdiction of the City of Toronto, extending from the ramps at the southerly end of Provincial Highway 427 at its intersection with the Queen Elizabeth Way and Gardiner Expressway, and traveling south to connect to Lake Shore Boulevard in the neighbourhood of Long Branch. From 1936 to 1972 Browns Line was known as Ontario Highway 27, a designation changed following the completion of the...