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Scugog
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 21617
- Area
- 474.71
- Image
- Port Perry ON.JPG
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- Scugog
- inception
- 1974-01-01
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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.