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Port Perry is a community located in Scugog, Ontario, Canada. The town is located 84 kilometres (52 mi) northeast of central Toronto , north of Oshawa , and east of Whitby . Port Perry has a population of 9,553 as of 2021. [ 2 ]
The Port Perry mill and grain elevator, circa 1930. Originally built in 1873, the building remains a major landmark to this day. The original line of the PW&PP Railway can be seen in the foreground. The Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway (PW&PP) was a railway running from Whitby to Port Perry, running north–south about 50 km east of Toronto.
Scugog is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, south-central Ontario, Canada.It is northeast of Toronto and just north of Oshawa.The anchor and largest population base of the township is Port Perry.
Thomas Charles Paxton (November 27, 1820 – July 3, 1887) was a Canadian politician, businessman and sheriff. As a partner in industrial business ventures, he was one of the founding fathers of Port Perry.
A number of villages were also incorporated as separate municipalities in the county after it was created: Port Perry in 1871, Uxbridge in 1872, Cannington in 1878 and Beaverton in 1884. In the 20th century, the wartime town of Ajax, located in Pickering Township, was incorporated as an improvement district in 1950. It became a town in 1955.
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In September, 1868, Port Perry Grammar School opened in the second-floor room of the Common School located on Ottawa Street in Port Perry, with an enrolment of 24 boys and 2 girls. Between 1868 and 1873, enrolment fluctuated between 23 and 64 students, with a maximum of 6 girls during that period.
Lake Scugog is an artificially flooded lake in Scugog, Regional Municipality of Durham and the unitary city of Kawartha Lakes in central Ontario, Canada. [1] It lies between the communities of Port Perry and Lindsay. The lake has been raised and lowered several times over its history.