Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Population:  Approx. 600,000

Borders of Scarborough: Victoria Park to the west, Port Union to the east Steeles to the north and the Lake to the South.

Scarborough was incorporated into a town in 1850 and included as part of Metropolitan Toronto when it was formed in 1953.  It grew rapidly after World War II and was designated as a borough in 1967.  It was then incorporated as a city within Metropolitan Toronto in 1983.  The residential and industrial city was amalgamated into the "megacity" in 1998 losing its separate legal identity but still known as Scarborough to locals of the GTA.

Scarborough is home to 14 km of the lakeside Scarborough Bluffs, the Rouge River Valley and historic sites such as the eerie Taber Hill Ossauries Iroquois burial site.

Often considered a poor cousin to the more urbane Toronto, Scarborough residents have developed their own unique culture and sense of humour.   Scarborough is the home of Ontario's only elevated rapid transit line, the Scarborough RT.  In recent years, Scarborough has garnered a somewhat inaccurate reputation as one of the more criminal areas of the Greater Toronto Area.