Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
The Scarborough Bluffs are the most distinctive natural feature in our area, stretching along our shoreline for more than 14 km and reaching heights of up to 90 metres. They are part of the escarpment that originally formed the shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois, back...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: From Lake Ontario up Bellamy creek and Bellamy Road up to the CN rail line on the east, along the rail line to Midland on the north, back along St Clair to Brimley, and along Brimley to the lake on the west. James McCowan arrived from Scotland with his...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: From Lake Ontario up Bellamy creek and Bellamy Road up to the CN rail line on the east, along the rail line to Midland on the north, back along St Clair to Brimley, and along Brimley. Kingston Road was the major throughway from Toronto to Kingston and...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: the political boundaries of Scarborough Southwest are being extended east of Bellamy to Markham Road south of Eglinton, an area which forms the western part of Scarborough Village. Bellamy Road was named after Edward Bellamy, who in 1888 wrote a popular...
Feb 5, 2015 | NEIGHBORHOODS
Boundaries: Eglinton on the north from Kennedy to Brimley, south to the rail line, back as far as Birchmount, and north to the subway tracks. The Grand Trunk Railway was built through southern Scarborough in 1856, linking Toronto to Montreal. In the 1860s George...
