Scarborough, York, Ontario, Canada

Originally a farming community, Scarborough, Ontario, population 600,000, is now an industrial and residential area in Metro Toronto, located to the east of Old Toronto on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. From the time it was settled in the early years of the nineteenth century by Scottish lowlanders, it has grown from a collection of rural villages to a major urban community. The area was named by Elizabeth Simcoe, wife of the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, for the limestone cliffs in Scarborough, Yorkshire which the bluffs on the shore of Lake Ontario were said to resemble. Scarborough is home to the Toronto Zoo, one of the largest in the world.

Kindly written and contributed by Mrs M J Ujimoto © 2009