Scugog
township in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada
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. 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
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 1874 George Currie built a grain elevator which is currently Canada's oldest grain elevator. The new township was part of Ontario County.
“Scugog” enters the record as township in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scugog, township and Durham can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q386919. VIAF identifies the subject as 154901525. The Library of Congress control number is n90687778. Authority coordinates are 44.140, -78.915. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1834, 1856 and 1874.
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