Port Perry is a community located in Scugog Township, Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. The town is located east of Uxbridge and southwest of Peterborough. Many residents commute to Toronto on a daily basis. Port Perry's municipal website reported a population of just over 9,500 in 2010.
Port Perry serves as the administrative and commercial centre for the Township of Scugog. The town is home to a 24-bed hospital, Scugog Township's municipal offices and many retail establishments. Port Perry serves as a hub for many small communities in the Scugog area, such as Greenbank, Raglan, Caesarea, Blackstock and Nestleton/Nestleton Station. The Great Blue Heron Charitable Casino is a major employer. Located at the basin of the Trent-Severn Waterways is Lake Scugog, one of Ontario's largest man-made lakes.
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... Lakeridge Health Port Perry is a hospital located in Port Perry, Ontario ... The hospital was founded as the private Community Memorial Hospital Port Perry, which became public in 1946 ...
... extended west to Highway 7 and Highway 12 at Manchester via Bethany and Port Perry ... The new extension was a gravel road between Port Perry and Highway 28, but the section between Port Perry and Blackstock was paved by October 1939 ...
... Port Perry has attracted many film crews over the years, both for feature film and television it doubled as the Maine town of Mooseport in the 2004 film Welcome to Mooseport and was used ... Port Perry was briefly shown in the movie Killshot (film), filmed as a small town in Missouri, USA ...
... The Port Perry Mojacks joined the Central Lakeshore Junior C Hockey League in 1972 as the Port Perry Flamingos named after their sponsor, flamingo tarts ... Port Perry finished the regular season with thirty-two wins, eight losses, and two overtime losses to win the regular season crown ... The Raiders did not pose much of a threat as Port Perry swept them 4-games-to-none ...
... island, separated from Cartwright Township to the southeast, and from Port Perry and Reach Township to the west ... residents began to petition the new government for construction of a bridge from Port Perry across to the island ... of 1876, work began to convert the first 180 metres (590 ft) of the Port Perry side of the floating bridge into a permanent embankment ...
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