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Scarborough City Centre is a commercial district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the central business district for the former city of Scarborough, which amalgamated with Toronto in 1998. Scarborough City Centre remains one of the central business districts outside Downtown Toronto.
Toronto. / 43.74167°N 79.37333°W / 43.74167; -79.37333. Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, [10] it is the fourth-most populous city in North America.
- Canada
- 416, 647, 437
- 76.5 m (251.0 ft)
- March 6, 1834; 189 years ago (as City of Toronto)
Feb 3, 2013 · Article. Scarborough. Article by Deborah Welch, Michael Payne. Published Online February 3, 2013. Last Edited November 14, 2019. Scarborough, Ontario, former municipality, now a part of the city of Toronto. Scarborough is located on Lake Ontario and makes up the eastern part of the city.
- The city was named for the Bluffs' resemblance to English geography. Scarborough, Pickering, and Whitby are all towns in North Yorkshire that have given their names to communities on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
- The Scarborough Bluffs created the Toronto Islands. Over millennia, the slow and persistent erosion of Scarborough's most famous geographical feature created a lengthy sandbar from roughly the foot of today's Woodbine Ave.
- The Rouge River is home to the only suspension bridge in Toronto. The Sewells Road Suspension Bridge was designed and built in 1912, when Scarborough was still a rural township.
- The Guild Park and Gardens is home to ruins of lost Toronto buildings. High atop the Scarborough Bluffs, the original Guild Inn was built for Colonel Harold Bickford, a high-ranking Boer and later first world war veteran, in 1914.
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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 in 1983.
Aug 24, 2023 · 9 months ago. 3:46. With the Scarborough RT down, CBC Toronto put three modes of transportation to the test to see whether driving, cycling or transit would be the fastest way to get from...
