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Scugog

Key facts

Settlement.name: Scugog
Settlement.settlement_type: Township (lower-tier)
Settlement.image_skyline: Port Perry ON.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Port Perry and Lake Scugog
Settlement.pushpin_map: CAN ON Durham#Canada Southern Ontario
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Regional Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Durham
Settlement.established_title: Established
Settlement.established_date: January 1, 1974
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: Wilma Wotten
Settlement.leader_title1: Councillors
Settlement.leader_title3: MP
Settlement.leader_name3: Jacob Mantle – York—Durham
Settlement.area_land_km2: 474.65
Settlement.population_total: 21,617

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Key dates

Inception: 1 January 1974

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Wikidata facts

Country: Canada
Located in: Regional Municipality of Durham
Population: +21617
Area: +474.71
Shares border with: Kawartha Lakes
Image: Port Perry ON.JPG

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History
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Current municipality
Schools
Economy
Attractions
Transportation
Roads and highways
Airports
Demographics
In film
See also
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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 1872 George Currie built a grain elevator which is currently Canada's oldest grain elevator. The new township was part of Ontario County.