Scarborough

Scarborough ( /ˈskɑrbəroʊ/; 2006 Census 602,575) is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River and the City of Pickering. Initially a collection of rural villages, it has become a diverse urban community. It was a charter member of Metropolitan Toronto in 1954, and eventually amalgamated into the City of Toronto in 1998. Over 200 years, it grew from a municipality to a fairly large city in its own right. It was named after the English town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1796 by Elizabeth Simcoe,...