Highland Creek is located in the easterly end of what was the City of Scarborough.Their own Mayor and Aldermen/Councilors were amalgamated into a large Municipal Corporation called The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. Effective January 1st of 1998, the Provincial Government of Ontario decided to cause Metro, as it was known, to cease to exist and to create in its stead, the "New" City of Toronto. Although now the City of Toronto, (fifth largest in North America) many community sub-names have remained...thus it is with Highland Creek - one of the oldest communities within the new Toronto.

The community of Highland Creek boundaries (a triangular area) are: the Highway 401 (MacDonald/Cartier Freeway) on the north, on the west, Morningside, south to The Highland Creek - follow the Creek to The Queen's Highway #2A to the confluence with Highway 401. (See Map below)

Located on the adjacent property is the Tony Stacey Center (formerly known as the Metro Toronto Legion Village)

The Tony Stacey Centre for Veterans Care is a long-term care facility that serves
veterans as they served us—above and beyond the call of duty. In order to continue this mission for not only those who served us on the battlefields of yore, but those whose day will come, we need your help. Be a hero and, through your financial contribution, help care for those who have given so much to all of us. Our home will stand as a beacon of long-term care for all, and fulfill our duty to those Canadian men and women who, in the face of an unspeakable fate, did the very same