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Port Perry

Phone : (905) 985-2823
Your Host(s) : Canada Post Port Perry

Port Perry, ON (Nearby: Prince Albert , Greenbank, Seagrave, Ashburn, Columbus)

  • Alton Mill From the Ontario Heritage Plaque The Alton Mill was established on the bank of Shaw’s Creek in 1881 by local industrialist and philanthropist William Algie. Known as the Beaver Knitting Mill, it was renowned across Canada for its production of fleece-lined long underwear. Although it miraculously survived the great Alton flood of 1889, the mill was struck by a disastrous fire in 1908, which reduced the original three-and-a-half storey limestone building to its present two storeys. I
  • Alton Mill From the Ontario Heritage Plaque The Alton Mill was established on the bank of Shaw’s Creek in 1881 by local industrialist and philanthropist William Algie. Known as the Beaver Knitting Mill, it was renowned across Canada for its production of fleece-lined long underwear. Although it miraculously survived the great Alton flood of 1889, the mill was struck by a disastrous fire in 1908, which reduced the original three-and-a-half storey limestone building to its present two storeys. I
  • Alton Mill From the Ontario Heritage Plaque The Alton Mill was established on the bank of Shaw’s Creek in 1881 by local industrialist and philanthropist William Algie. Known as the Beaver Knitting Mill, it was renowned across Canada for its production of fleece-lined long underwear. Although it miraculously survived the great Alton flood of 1889, the mill was struck by a disastrous fire in 1908, which reduced the original three-and-a-half storey limestone building to its present two storeys. I

192 Queen St.
Port Perry, Ontario
L9L 1B9


Ontario Tourism Region : York, Durham and Hills of Headwaters

Description From Owner:
  • Pop. 6,019. Part of Scugog T., Reg. Mun. of Durham, on L. Scugog, Hwy 7A and C. Rd. 2, 28 km. NW of Whitby.
  • . In 1848, on the former site of a First Nations Peoples village called Scugog Village, Peter Perry laid out a townsite, which was named Port Perry after him in 1852.
  • Perry, the son of a United Empire Loyalist, lacked formal education, but through force of character became an outstanding member of the Reform Party of Upper Canada and one of the founders of the Clear Grit Party.


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  • Chalk Lake, 12km
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  • Brown Lake, 14km
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  • Widdifield Pond, 21km
  • Mud Lake, 23km
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  • Lazy Lake, 25km
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  • Goose Lake, 36km
  • Windsor Lake, 27km
  • Musselman Lake, 27km
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  • Franklin Pond, 30km
  • Toogood Pond, 39km
  • Sturgeon Lake, 45km
  • Preston Lake, 37km
  • van Nostrand Lake, 37km
  • Dike Pond, 36km
  • Simeon Lake, 39km
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  • Haynes Lake, 40km
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  • Cranberry Lake, 54km
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  • Goose Lake, 56km
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  • Duck Lake, 64km
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