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Mar 17, 2024 · Scarborough, former city (1983–98), southeastern Ontario, Canada. In 1998 it amalgamated with the borough of East York and the cities of Etobicoke, York, North York, and Toronto to form the City of Toronto. Scarborough township (incorporated 1850) was reconstituted as a borough in 1967 and a city.
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Scarborough is a district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is situated atop the Scarborough Bluffs in the eastern part of the city. Its borders are Victoria Park Avenue to the west, Steeles Avenue and the city of Markham to the north, Rouge River and the city of Pickering to the east, and Lake Ontario to the south.
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In 1793, Elizabeth Simcoe, wife of Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, named Scarborough after the town of the same name in England. The area attracted its first agricultural settlers soon after. Scottish settlers, David and Mary Thomson, were the first to arrive in about 1799, settling along Highland Creek. The area remained primarily a farmin...
In 1900, only 3,711 people lived in Scarborough Township. After the Second World War, Scarborough began to grow rapidly as did all municipalities adjoining Toronto. In 1953, a regional municipality called Metro Toronto was created to deal more effectively with the problems of physical infrastructure that this expansion caused. Incorporated as a cit...
Significant features of Scarborough include the scenic Rouge River and the spectacular geology of the Scarborough Bluffs, which rise 100 metres above Lake Ontario and stretch 15 kilometres along the lakeshore. Scarborough is also home to the Toronto Zoo. The Taber Hill Ossuary, a Huron-Wendat burial site, was discovered in 1956 during excavations f...
Scarborough is the easternmost of the six former municipalities which formed Metro Toronto. It includes all if the City of Toronto east of Victoria Park Avenue, including the city's zoo and a stretch of Lake Ontario and Rouge River shoreline (as its southern and eastern borders, respectively).
Scarborough was incorporated as a township in 1850, became a borough in 1967, was incorporated as a city in 1983 and local government was amalgamated as part of the City of Toronto by provincial decree in 1997.
Scarborough, Ontario, a district of Toronto, Canada, is a vibrant community that has grown from a collection of small rural villages and farms in the 1790s to a fully urbanized district with a diverse cultural community. This article explores the rich history, geography, demographics, and cultural aspects of Scarborough, Ontario.
