SCARBOROUGH


Meaning of SCARBOROUGH in English

City (pop., 2001: 593,297), southeastern Ontario, Canada.

With the cities of Etobicoke , York , North York , and Toronto and the borough of East York , it constitutes the municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. First called Glasgow, it was renamed in 1793 because its coastal bluffs reminded settlers of Scarborough , Eng. Originally a farming community, it later became an industrial and residential urban area.

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