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Historic Post Office in Downtown Port Perry | |
Coordinates: 44°06′17″N78°56′39″W / 44.10472°N 78.94417°WCoordinates: 44°06′17″N78°56′39″W / 44.10472°N 78.94417°W | |
Country | Canada |
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Province | Ontario |
Regional municipality | Durham |
Township | Scugog |
Settled | 1821 |
Incorporated (village) | 1871 |
Population | |
• Total | 9,453 |
• Density | 1,207.2/km2 (3,127/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Forward sortation area | |
Area code(s) | 905 and 289 |
NTS Map | 031D02 |
GNBC Code | FCIAS |
Port Perry is a community located in Scugog, Ontario, Canada. The town is located 84 kilometres (52 mi) northeast of central Toronto and north of Oshawa and Whitby. Due to its location in the Greater Toronto Area, many residents commute to Toronto for work.[2] Port Perry has a population of 9,453 as of 2016.[1]
Port Perry serves as the administrative and commercial centre for the township of Scugog. The town is home to a 24-bed hospital (Lakeridge Health Port Perry), Scugog Township's municipal offices and many retail establishments. Port Perry serves as a hub for many small communities in the Scugog area, such as Greenbank, Raglan, Caesarea, Blackstock and Nestleton/Nestleton Station. The Great Blue Heron Charitable Casino is a major employer. Located at the basin of the Trent-Severn Waterways is Lake Scugog, one of Ontario's largest man-made lakes.
The area around Port Perry was first surveyed as part of Reach Township by MajorSamuel Street Wilmot in 1809. The first settler in the area was Reuben Crandell, a United Empire Loyalist who built a homestead with his wife in May 1821. Their original home is still in use and can be seen on King Street between Prince Albert and Manchester. In November 1821, Lucy Ann Crandell became the first child of European descent born in the area. In 1831, Crandell and his family moved to a homestead at what became Crandell's Corners (later called Borelia).[3] It had its own Post Office, near the present-day junction of Queen Street and Highway 7A.
Settler Peter Perry laid out village lots on the shore of Lake Scugog in 1848 on the site of a former native village known as Scugog Village. The townsite was named Port Perry in 1852 and its first Postmaster was Joseph Bigelow. It was incorporated as a village in 1871. At the time there was an intense rivalry between Port Perry and two nearby towns, Prince Albert and Manchester. Expecting great things for 'his' town, Peter Perry predicted that goats would eat grass off of Prince Albert's main street.[4]
At the time, Prince Albert sat astride a planked toll road running south to Whitby. Grain and lumber from areas throughout the area south-east of Lake Simcoe fed through Prince Albert, which was a major grain trading area. Perry and others in Port Perry felt a railway was a much better option, and Perry's prediction would eventually come true.
A group of local businessmen started the process of bringing the railway to the town in 1867, and the first train on the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway reached the terminus in Port Perry in 1872. In the following year the grain elevator was built, still standing today as Canada's oldest existing grain elevator.[5] Cargo from all over northern Ontario was shipped via the Trent-Severn Waterway to Port Perry via Lake Scugog, and then via the railway to Whitby, where it could be loaded onto the CP or CN mainlines running along the shore of Lake Ontario, or onto ships in Port Whitby. Businesses quickly moved out of Prince Albert and moved to Port Perry, leaving Prince Albert effectively a suburb of Port Perry today. The Port Perry Granary still stands as a tall sentinel on the shores of Lake Scugog and proud of being Canada's oldest grain elevator outlasting numerous fires and modern day demolition.
The village was amalgamated with Cartwright, Reach and Scugog Townships to form the Township of Scugog in 1974 upon the creation of the Regional Municipality of Durham.
An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected at the Scugog Shores Museum by the province to commemorate Jimmy Frise's role in Ontario's heritage.[6]
Port Perry's Victorian-era downtown is a tourist destination, with clothing stores, restaurants, cafés, bookstores, galleries and antique shops. In the summer, the town features the festivals Mississauga First Nation Pow Wow, the Highland Games, the Dragon Boat Races and StreetFest. Port Perry is also home to the Theatre on The Ridge summer theatre festival featuring 6 shows performed at Townhall 1873 during July and August. Its annual fair, held every Labour Day weekend, has been running for over 150 years. There are also golf courses, both public and private. Other attractions in Port Perry and surrounding area include the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino, Scugog Memorial Library (featuring the Kent Farndale Art Gallery), the Scugog Shores Historical Museum and the Town Hall 1873 Centre for the Performing Arts.
At many local farms, visitors may pick their own seasonal fruit (strawberries, raspberries, apples). In the summer, bass tournaments and lakeside activities are also featured.
The Lake Scugog shoreline offers two popular lakeside parks, Palmer and Birdseye. There are active fishing seasons, both winter and summer. In the winter months, Lake Scugog is dotted with ice-fishing huts and is a destination for ice fishermen and snowmobilers.
Port Perry has attracted many film crews over the years, both for feature film and television; it doubled as the Maine town of Mooseport in the 2004 film Welcome to Mooseport and was used briefly as a small town in New Hampshire during the sixth season of The West Wing.
The town was the primary production location for the 1996 film, Fly Away Home, based on local inventor Bill Lishman's experiments in the 1980s and 1990s imprinting geese in order to alter and preserve migration routes. The film fictionalized Lishman's personal life, but used him as a consultant for its aerial and technical production.
Port Perry is also used as exteriors for the TV series Hemlock Grove which is set in a fictional small town in Western Pennsylvania.[10]
Port Perry is being used as a small town known as Lakeside for season three of the Amazon show American Gods (TV series). They painted the Mill black and added fake shops, the 'PORT PERRY' wording at the top of the Old Mill will be changed to 'LAKESIDE as well as adding fake snow around the town.
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Township (lower-tier) | |
Township of Scugog | |
Location of Scugog in Durham Region | |
Location of Scugog in Southern Ontario | |
Coordinates: 44°05′24″N78°56′10″W / 44.09°N 78.936°WCoordinates: 44°05′24″N78°56′10″W / 44.09°N 78.936°W | |
Country | Canada |
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Province | Ontario |
Regional Municipality | Durham |
Established | January 1, 1974 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Bobbie Drew [1] |
• Regional Councillor | Wilma Wotten [1] |
• Councillors | |
• MP | Erin O'Toole – Durham |
• MPP | Lindsey Park – Durham |
Area | |
• Land | 474.65 km2 (183.26 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 21,617 |
• Density | 45.4/km2 (118/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
Area code(s) | 289 / 905 |
Website | www.scugog.ca/en/index.aspx |
Scugog is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, south-central Ontario, Canada. It is northeast of Toronto and just north of Oshawa. Due to its location in the Greater Toronto Area, many residents commute to Toronto for work on a daily basis. The anchor and largest population base of the township is Port Perry. The township has a population of roughly 22,500. A smaller Scugog Township was also a historic municipality and geographic township prior to the amalgamation that formed the current municipality.
The original township of Scugog used to be divided between Reach and Cartwright townships in Ontario County and Northumberland and Durham County, respectively. When Lake Scugog was created by a dam in Lindsay in 1834, flooding created an island known as Scugog Island. The island was separated from Reach and Cartwright to form Scugog Township in 1856. In 1872 George Currie built a grain elevator which is currently Canada's oldest grain elevator. The new township was part of Ontario County.
According to Alan Rayburn's Place Names of Ontario, the name Scugog is derived from the Mississauga word sigaog, which means 'waves leap over a canoe.' This refers to the creation of Lake Scugog. Other sources indicate that it is an Ojibwe word meaning swampy or marshy land.[citation needed] The existence of two other lakes by the same name[3] (neither of which is artificial) lends support to the latter etymology.
The creation of the Regional Municipality of Durham in 1974 resulted in municipal restructuring of the various townships in Ontario County. The current township of Scugog was created through the amalgamation of the original townships of Scugog, Reach and Cartwright and the town of Port Perry.
The Township of Scugog is governed by a mayor, a regional councillor and five councillors elected on the basis of one per ward. Ward 1 includes Greenbank, Seagrave, Epsom, Utica and Manchester. Ward 2 is Port Perry (South of 7A) and Prince Albert. Ward 3 is Scugog Island. Ward 4 is Blackstock, Nestleton Station, Nestleton and Casesarea. Ward 5 is Port Perry (north of 7A). The council holds regular meetings, open to the public at the town hall in Port Perry.
The regional councillor joins the mayor to attend meetings at the Durham Regional Council.[4] The members of council elected in 2018 are:[5]
Mayor: Bobbie Drew
Regional Councillor: Wilma Wotten
Councillors:
Port Perry is the chief commercial and administrative centre of the municipality. The township also includes the communities of:
Reserves # 34 consists of two tracts, east of Mississauga's Trail between Hood Drive and Pogue Road as wellas west of Mississauga's Trail from Pogue Road to Seven Mile Island Road/Chandler Drive.
Great Blue Heron Casino is located on the reserve. A Health and Resource Centre and Reserves Administration Office are located on Island Road.
Public Schools:
High Schools:
Catholic Schools:
The largest private-sector employer in the area is the Great Blue Heron Casino, located on the Scugog First Nation on Scugog Island. Schneider Meats also has a facility in the Township. The Township is also a popular tourist destination due to the casino and recreational opportunities from Lake Scugog. Many residents also commute to other Durham Region communities and further afield by road.
Main roads in Scugog are:
There are two airports in Scugog, both are public airfields used by small propeller aircraft:
Lakeridge Health Port Perry site has a helipad for air ambulance use only.
According to the 2006 Statistics Canada Census:[6]
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1991 | 17,810 | — |
1996 | 18,837 | +5.8% |
2001 | 20,173 | +7.1% |
2006 | 21,439 | +6.3% |
2011 | 21,569 | +0.6% |
Racial makeup | |||
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Canada 2006 Census | Population | % of total population | |
Visible minority group Source:[7] | South Asian | 75 | 0.4 |
Chinese | 70 | 0.3 | |
Black | 70 | 0.3 | |
Filipino | 25 | 0.1 | |
Latin American | 15 | 0.1 | |
Southeast Asian | 0 | 0 | |
Arab | 0 | 0 | |
West Asian | 15 | 0.1 | |
Korean | 35 | 0.2 | |
Japanese | 45 | 0.2 | |
Mixed visible minority | 10 | 0 | |
Other visible minority | 35 | 0.2 | |
Total visible minority population | 395 | 1.9 | |
Aboriginal group Source:[8] | First Nations | 110 | 0.5 |
Métis | 60 | 0.3 | |
Inuit | 0 | 0 | |
Total Aboriginal population | 180 | 0.9 | |
White | 20,580 | 97.3 | |
Total population | 21,155 | 100 |
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