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Just $365 inclusive for two full years - that's only 50c a day!

If you are the owner of a business, retail store or professional service located in Scarborough, Ontario, or if you would like to advertise a business, practice or service located around its boundaries or elsewhere in the greater Toronto area, you can do so inexpensively and effectively by securing one or more web pages on this steadily-growing and upscale site.

What Do We Offer You?

• We'll prepare a unique and exclusive web page for your business, service or practice which will form an integral part of this site. We'll take your text (or create it for you, following the draft points that you supply), add an attractive generic custom banner, incorporate photos or images (if desired and provided), and build your attractive web page for you. You can add additional web pages, each linked to your first web page and to each other, for an additional charge if you wish.

• We'll code your page to make it 'search engine attractive' and to help draw Internet visitors directly to it.

• We'll link your page to the front, or index, page of this site under the appropriate category.

• We'll place a complimentary clickable banner, linked to and advertising your page, on the front page of Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com for one month or so, to help drive additional visitor traffic to your page.

• We'll create a link directly to your new web page from the 'links' pages of our seven other sites, the majority of which are themselves high link-count, high-traffic sites. This way, search engines will find and index your web page fast, and visitors to our seven other sites become potential visitors to your page, too!

How Much Does It Cost?

We Give You A Second, Additional Year At No Additional Charge!

What Are The Benefits?

• You receive highly-effective, inexpensive, and attractive advertising exposure for your business, service or practice 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

• Your web page is coded to be also readily found by potential customers as a ‘stand alone' page (acting as your own 'mini-web site')

• You are targeting precisely the community from which you wish to attract future customers and clients.

• You gain additional 'no cost' traffic to your page by being linked to a web site that serves diverse businesses and services in this area - their pages draw traffic to the site for you, just as your page draws additional traffic to the site for them.

• You can 'reach in', via the Internet, to the very many potential future customers and clients now living in, or soon to occupy, the expensive existing and new condominium high-rise developments throughout Toronto and along the Lakeshore - potential high-value repeat customers and upscale clients whom it would be hard for you to advertise to, or to easily contact, in any other way!

• Additionally, you can also draw in new customers from Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke and across the GTA, because of the 'search engine friendly' coding of your page to include those areas.

• There's no hassle or additional cost for you - we take care of your web page preparation and hosting, and you get an inexpensive, effective and attractive Internet advertising 'presence' which works night and day to draw business to you for two full years!

• If you alrerady have an existing web site, we'll even include a link from your new web page on Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com to your own web site.

Does it work?

We helped her define her business plan, built her a web page (which you can see at http://www.mimico-by-the- lake.com/prestige.htm) and linked her page to our other high-traffic sites. The result? Type ‘maid services toronto' into Yahoo, and Prestige Plus Maid Service comes right up! Elizabeth's business has boomed, and she now relies solely on her Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com web page to attract additional clients!

You can see similar examples in the attractive and effective Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com pages that we've built for Royal Travel, for All In One Travel and Services, for Fahrenheit Tanning Salon and for Alf's Antiques and Handcrafted Furniture.

For just 50 cents a day over two years, that's exceptional value! Each new and repeat customer or client you gain, plus the referrals that they then send to you, will demonstrate the effectiveness of Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com (and your web page on it) in drawing in additional and continued new business for you - and all for just $365 inclusive for two full years! We individually design, build and host a web page that gets results for you.

Please Note

Order your web page NOW, and you'll be getting a $1230 value (including the additional free year currently being offered) for just $365. That represents an unbeatable and unrepeatable bargain - and an excellent investment in the future success of your business!

To give you an approximate idea for comparison purposes, the minimum regular charge for researching, coding and composing the beautiful Royal Travel, Alf's Antiques and Handcrafted Furniture and Fahrenheit Tanning Salon pages which you can see on this site would be $2,000 - before the additional page set-up charge and annual hosting fee are applied. That charge would cover the substantial number of hours required to research, compose and code these pages for maximum search engine ranking, viewer response and profitable results for the business concerned. So you can see that this soon-to-expire introductory $365 offer is a unbeatable and unrepeatable bargain!

You Can Also Upgrade Your Current Address Listing

• for $75.00 a year, we'll add your telephone number and hours of operation to your address listing.
• for $50.00 a year, we'll add your business's current e-mail address to your address listing, live-linked so that readers can send e-mailed enquiries or orders directly to you.
• for $75.00 a year, we'll add your business's current website address to your address listing, live-linked so that readers can click through directly to it.

If you haven't been given a temporary complimentary business listing by us (this occurs at our complete discretion), but would like to purchase a listing in order to ensure visilibility and added customer or client traffic, you may do so for $250 a year. We will include in that amount any or all of the three additional features listed directly above at no additional charge.

We consider each such request for inclusion on a case-by-case basis, to maintain the balance, integrity and quality of this web site.

Every business which orders a web page on this site also automatically receives a free business listing on the apprpriate business category page, fully-featured as above and live-linked to their web page on this site.

Running A Professional Or Service Business From Home?

We Accept Individual Salesperson And Agent Advertisements, Too.

We're aware that it's vital for such professionals to constantly promote their services, encourage enquiries, generate leads, and build their individual client base.

Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com can help you to inexpensively and effectively reach out to the affluent residents of Mimico-by-the-Lake, Mimico Village, Etobicoke, Lakeshore Boulevard West, Mississauga, North York, Richmond Hill, King City, Thornhill, Markham, Willowdale, Agincourt, Scarborough, and across the GreaterToronto Area.

Advertisers Can Really Benefit!

The affluent and up-scale residents of the new luxury condo buildings and townhouses now being built throghout Toronto think nothing of driving a distance to patronize a newly-discovered favourite store, restaurant, or other business.

Your good service will make them loyal and repeat customers, but it's your advertisement on Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com that will probably be instrumental in telling them about you and in bringing them to your business in the first place!

Etobicoke, Mississauga, and Toronto Businesses Benefit, Too!

Who Do You Contact?

Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com understands the needs of
advertisers in Scarborough, Ontario.

Advertise on this site - and watch your business grow and prosper!

Demographics:

In 2005, Scarborough's population was 593,297, with a density of 3,160.9/km². A significant portion of Scarborough's population is composed of immigrants who have arrived in the last two decades. Chinese residents make up 17.73% of the population, South Asian Residents account for 17.76% of the population. Carribbean and African-Canadian residents make up 10.09% of the visible minority population, while Filipino Canadian residents account for 5%. The remaining visible minority groups are all below 2%.

The large immigrant population has created multicultural havens in various areas of Scarborough. Most notable among these is the heavy concentration of Chinese businesses and restaurants in the Agincourt neighbourhood. Along certain strips like Kingston Rd., Eglinton Ave. E., and Lawrence Ave. E., all running through south-central Scarborough is a high concentration of jerk chicken, roti, and halal restaurants and shops reflecting their respective cultures. Scarborough also encompasses Malvern, Ontario, one of the most multicultural neighbourhoods in the world. 54.53% of Scarborough is foreign born, while 59.52% is non-white.

Census:

Along with Markham, ON and Richmond, BC, the majority of Scarborough's population is composed of visible minority groups.

Immigration:

Foreign-born Population - 55%
Canadian-born Population - 45%

Recent developments:

A significant amount of building activity has spurred growth along the 401 corridor at the northern end of the Scarborough RT between McCowan and Scarborough Centre Stations. Several key highrise condominium projects have increased the residential density around Scarborough Centre. This has caused the twofold effect of increasing the apparent affluence of the once neglected neighbourhood and increasing the traffic congestion in the region.

Originally, the Sheppard Subway was to extend eastward to Scarborough Centre. This extension is still a priority for the TTC alongside the extension of the Spadina Subway. As well, the Scarborough RT will reach its end of life, for which a replacement is currently being studied.

Scarborough Town Centre, the former city's biggest commercial and entertainment hub, has recently undergone massive renovations to transform it into a modern and competitive mall. Recent additions include satellite establishments like Jack Astor's, Milestones, and Best Buy Electronics.

History:

Scarborough was incorporated as a township on 1 January 1850 and included as a municipality within Metropolitan Toronto when it was formed on 15 April 1953. It was then incorporated as a borough within Metropolitan Toronto on 1 January 1967, and later incorporated as a city within it in 1983. It was amalgamated into the City of Toronto ("megacity") on 1 January 1998, losing its separate legal identity.

It was named after Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England by Elizabeth Simcoe, the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. The bluffs along Scarborough's Lake Ontario shores reminded her of the limestone cliffs in Scarborough, England. In her diary, she wrote, "The [eastern] shore is extremely bold, and has the appearance of chalk cliffs, but I believe they are only white sand. They appeared so well that we talked of building a summer residence there and calling it Scarborough."[2]

Much of the area of Scarborough was settled by suburban housing developments in the last third of the 20th century. Except for a few small villages that existed, the older section is in the southwest along the Kingston Rd. and Danforth Rd. corridors where the housing stock was built beginning in the late 19th century as Toronto grew outward. New low-rise condominium development has extended into this area which borders the growing, trendy strip along Queen St. known as "The Beaches".

Often considered a poor cousin to the more urbane Toronto, Scarborough residents have developed their own unique culture and sense of humour as evidenced by such native "Scarberians" as Mike Myers (Wayne's World, Austin Powers), Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), John Candy (Second City, SCTV) the musical group Barenaked Ladies, and pop teen princess Fefe Dobson. Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show) also lived in Scarborough during his teen years.

Scarborough is the home of Ontario's only elevated rapid transit line, the Scarborough RT. It is also home to the University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC) and Centennial College.

Scarborough's oldest school is thought to be R.H. King Academy which was built in 1922, but is actually Agincourt Collegiate Institute, built in 1915, It was previously Agincourt Junior Public School. Other schools in Scarborough include David and Mary Thomson C.I. and Winston Churchill CI.

Geography:

Scarborough is home to an earthen cliff formation known as the Scarborough Bluffs. These can be found along the shore of Lake Ontario, stretching about 14 km, and reaching heights of more than 60 m in places. Erosion has been a problem along the Scarborough Bluffs. Some properties located near the brink have actually had to be abandoned, and some houses condemned, as the brink wears back away from the lake.

The Bluffs are part of a much larger formation known as the Iroquois Shoreline. Most of the rest of this formation is located somewhat further inland, and not right at the lakeshore as in Scarborough. The Iroquois Shoreline marks the extent of a prehistoric lake, Glacial Lake Iroquois, whose level was quite a bit higher than Lake Ontario's. It shrank in size at the close of the last ice age.

Scarborough is also notable for the Rouge River Valley, an area where many parts of which are still in a wild state, and are mostly wooded. The Valley is home to a great variety of wildlife including deer, foxes, and the occasional coyote. In the mid-1990s, there were several unconfirmed sightings of a cougar in the Rouge Valley. One witness even produced a videotape purportedly showing it.

The Toronto Zoo is also located in the Rouge Valley.

Scarborough's coordinates are roughly 43.78° N, 79.25° W.

Nicknames:

Scarborough has collected several nicknames, most of them pejorative. Examples include Scarberia, Scarlem, and Scar Lanka. A more complete list is available in the Canadian slang article.

Notable Scarberians:

Paul Bernardo, a notorious criminal convicted of murder and sex crimes.
Jim Carrey, well known comic actor.
Andy Donato, editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Sun newspaper.
Melyssa Ford, model.
David Furnish, filmaker and civil partner of Elton John.
Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand.
Omar Khadr, teenage detainee at American military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Maestro (rapper), rapper and actor.
Jamaal Magloire, NBA basketball player.
Eric McCormack, actor.
Mike Myers, a comedian known for his portrayal of Austin Powers.
Alan Park, a comedian starred in Royal Canadian Air Farce. Craig Russell, female impersonator.
Monika Schnarre, a fashion supermodel.
Rick Tocchet, NHL hockey player.
Paul Tracy, race car driver.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Scarborough, Ontario".

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