Where in Canada is Port Perry?
Canada is a northern country stretching from "Sea to Sea to Sea". It is
bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Arctic Ocean and the east by
the Atlantic Ocean. We share our southern border with the United States of
America.
Scugog Township is located within Durham Region. It is one of the larger townships and Lake Scugog is located within it's boundaries.
Durham Region stretches from Lake Simcoe all the way to Lake Ontario. To the west of Durham region is the large region of Metropolitan Toronto.
Click on the map to see where Durham Region is located!
Click on the map to see a map of scugog township!
Well, as you can see, Port Perry is the main community in the bustling and busy Scugog Township.
We are proud of out 180 year history here... and if you read on, we would like to tell you all about
it.
Perhaps we should start with the name "Scugog". It comes from an Ojibwa word meaning "an area
of marsh and swamps". Now we are not swamp dwellers here, but we do love our large wetland
wildlife areas. Shortly after settlement began, the Scugog River was dammed up downstream to
create our beautiful lake. In 1850, Peter Perry, an entrepreneur from Whitby to the south of us,
created a town plan and the rest is History. We took our name from this illustrious gentleman. (For
more on our history... check it out under the Human Geography section).
Who Are We?
We would like to introduce ourselves to you at this point. We are all students at Port
Perry High School, or as we call it "The High School". You can see a picture of our school
above. We are all members of a senior Geography course called "GEO-TECHNOLOGY". In this
course we have been learning the new skills of Geographic Information Systems, Global
Positioning Systems, Geography on the Web, and many more exciting things. This project was
one of the more interesting and creative ventures we attempted. Our class picture is below.
Port Perry's Geo-Technology Class
Our Class Picture
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