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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 |
|---|---|
| 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.
History[edit]
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]
Culture and recreation[edit]
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.
Notable residents[edit]
- Kate Beirness, TSN sports broadcaster and Port Perry native
- George Burnett, hockey coach in NHL, AHL, OHL and Hockey Canada
- George A. Cope, CEO, Bell Canada Enterprises[7]
- Gertrude Spurr Cutts, English-born painter spent latter part of her life in Port Perry
- Ty Dellandrea prospect for the Dallas Stars
- Brad Goreski, celebrity fashion stylist and TV personality born in Port Perry
- Vladimir Hachinski, renowned clinical neurologist and researcher in stroke and dementia; born in Ukraine and raised in Port Perry
- Bill Lishman, sculptor, filmmaker, inventor, naturalist and public speaker; lived in nearby Blackstock
- James Howden MacBrien, Commander of the Canadian Army and RCMP; born in nearby Myrtle and raised in Port Perry
- Jayde Nicole, Canadian Model, born in Scarborough and raised in Port Perry
- Daniel David Palmer, the founder of Palmer School of Chiropractic; born in Port Perry
- J. F. Paxton (1857–1936), Canadian ice hockey administrator[8]
- Thomas Paxton (1820–1887), Port Perry industrial businessman, politician and sheriff[9]
- Dan Petronijevic, television actor
- John Ross Roach, NHL goalie of the 1930s and born in Port Perry
- Craig Russell, female impersonator, best known for his lead role in the movie, Outrageous!; buried in Port Perry
- Emily VanCamp, film and television actress; born and raised in Port Perry
- Fred Whitcroft, amateur and NHA hockey player, inductee of Hockey Hall of Fame; born in Port Perry
In film[edit]
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.
References[edit]
- ^ ab''Port Perry [Population centre], Ontario and Ontario [Province] (table)' Census Profile. 2016 Census'. Statistics Canada. May 3, 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-14.
- ^Gilligan, Keith (February 4, 2016). 'Durham commuter life getting longer, more time consuming'. Metroland News. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^Arculus, Paul (2000). Steamboats on Scugog. Port Perry, Ontario: Observer Publishing. p. 13. ISBN0-9684932-2-X.
- ^'The Nip N' Tuck', Scugog Shores Historical Museum
- ^https://scugogheritage.com/history/grainelevator.htm
- ^'Ontario Plaque'. Archived from the original on 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2009-01-07.
- ^Arculus, Paul. 'Three Port Perry High school graduates among Canada's top 100 highest paid CEOs'. scugogheritage.com. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
- ^'Composite Portrait Souvenir of George W. Dryden, J.E. Farewell, John F. Paxton, Donald McKay, L.T. Barclay, His Honor Judge McCrimmon, G.Y. Smith, His Honor Judge McIntyre'. Our Ontario. Whitby Public Library Archives. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
- ^'Thomas Paxton'. Port Perry / Scugog Township Heritage Gallery. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
- ^Hall, Chris (March 16, 2012). 'Film crews to return to Port Perry'. durhamregion.com. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
External links[edit]
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- Port Perry at Geographical Names of Canada
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 |
|---|---|
| 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.
History[edit]
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.
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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.
Local government[edit]
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:
- Ward 1 : Ian McDougall
- Ward 2: Janna Guido
- Ward 3: Angus Ross
- Ward 4: Deborah Kiezebrink
- Ward 5: Lance Brown
Current municipality[edit]
Port Perry is the chief commercial and administrative centre of the municipality. The township also includes the communities of:
- Aldreds Beach – east side of Scugog Island at the eastern end of Demara Road
- Blackstock – east of Port Perry on Old Scugog Road between Church Street and Highway 7A
- Cadmus – east of Blackstock on Egerton Road at Cartwright East
- Caesarea – opposite of Aldreds Beach on Lake Scugog on Scugog Road
- Carnegie Beach – northeast end of Scugog Island on Carnegie Beach Road
- Cedar Shores – opposite Honey Beach on Lake Scugog on Island Road at Pine Point Road
- Epsom – west of Port Perry and north of Utica on Reach Street at Marsh Hill Road
- Fralicks Beach – northwest side of Scugog Island on Mississauga Trail north of Hood Drive
- Gerrows Beach – opposite of Highland Beach on Scugog Island
- Greenbank – northwest of Port Perry
- Highland Beach – located just north of Port Perry
- Honey Beach – east side of Scugog Island at end of Whitfield Road
- Lakeside Beach- opposite of Honey Beach on Lake Scugog
- Manchester – southwest of Port Perry on Highway 12
- Marsh Hill – northwest of Greenbank
- McLaren's Beach – north of Pine Point
- Nestleton – north of Nestleton on McLaughlin Road
- Nestleton Station – northeast of Blackstock on Highway 7A near Nestleton Road
- Pine Point – south of Aldreds Beach on Point Point Road east of Mississauga Trail
- Port View Beach – opposite of Port Perry on Scugog Island
- Prince Albert – located southwest of Port Perry at King Street and Simcoe Road
- Prospect – southwest of Port Perry on Highway 7 and Scugog Line 2
- Purple Hill on Shirley Road and west of Cartwright West Quarter Line
- Saintfield – north of Greenbank on Highway 7/12 at Saintfield Road
- Saint Christopher – due east of Scugog Point
- Scugog – at Island Road and Chandler Road just north of Scugog Centre
- Scugog Centre – east of Lakeside Beach at Island Road and Demara Road
- Scugog Point – north of Nestleton Station on east shore of Lake Scugog
- Seagrave – north of Port Perry on Simcoe Street
- Shirley – southeast of Port Perry on Shirley Road at Sandy Road
- Strattonville – west of Epson and due east of Uxbridge
- Sunrise Beach- east side of Scugog Island at east end of Chandler Drive
- Sunset View – opposite of Honey Beach on Lake Scugog
- Utica – west of Port Perry and south of Epson on Regional Road 21 and Marsh Hill Road
- Victoria Corners – northwest of Greenbank and near Leaskdale on Victoria Corners Road and Lake Ridge Road
- Williams Point – southwest of Scugog Point along east shore of Lake Scugog near Nestleton Road and Scugog Road
Mississaugas of Scugog First Nations[edit]
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.
Schools[edit]
Public Schools:
- R.H. Cornish P.S
- S.A. Cawker P.S
- Prince Albert P.S
- Cartwright P.S
- Greenbank P.S
High Schools:
Catholic Schools:
- Good Shepheard Catholic School
Economy[edit]
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.
Attractions[edit]
- Nonquon Provincial Wildlife Area – 1,120-hectare (2,800 acre) protected area located northwest of Port Perry and managed by Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
- Ocala Orchards Farm Winery – 100 acre winery established in 1995 by Irwin and Alissa Smith south of Utica
- Scugog Shores Museum
- Oakridges Moraine Trail – located at south end of Scugog
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Transportation[edit]
Roads and highways[edit]
Main roads in Scugog are:
- Simcoe Street (Durham Regional Road 2) – connect communities north and south from Port Perry
- Highway 7/Highway 12 – connects communities south and north of Greenbank, as well as to Oshawa
- Highway 7A – connects communities east and west of Port Perry
- Island Road (Durham Regional Road 7) – north and south areas on the west side of Scugog Island
Airports[edit]
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.
Demographics[edit]
According to the 2006 Statistics Canada Census:[6]
- Population:
- 2006: 21,439
- 2001: 20,173
- % Change (2001–2006): 6.3
- Dwellings: 8,345
- Area (km²): 474.63
- Density (persons per km²): 45.2
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
In film[edit]
- The 1973 TV movie, The Thanksgiving Treasure, starring Jason Robards, was partially filmed at the general store in Seagrave, and at a farm on Old Simcoe Road just to the west of Seagrave.[9]
- Parts of the 1996 film Fly Away Home were filmed in Scugog.
- The downtown scenes from 2004's Welcome to Mooseport were shot in Port Perry.
- The downtown scenes from Hemlock Grove were shot in Port Perry.
- In Season 3 'Lakeside' of American Gods (TV series) some parts were shot in downtown Port Perry. They painted the mill black and made other little changes around the town
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ ab'Mayor and Council'. Township of Scugog. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
- ^ abStatistics Canada 2011 Census – Scugog community profile
- ^'Geographical names in Canada: Search Results for Scugog'. www.nrcan.gc.ca. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
- ^'Council Members'. www.durham.ca. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
- ^'Mayor and Council'. www.scugog.ca. October 22, 2018. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
- ^Statistics Canada 2006 Census – Scugog community profile
- ^'Community Profiles from the 2006 Census'. Statistics Canada – Census Subdivision.
- ^'Aboriginal Peoples – Data table'. Statistics Canada.
- ^'The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973 TV Movie) Filming & Production'. IMDb. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
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