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2] pee 7 227 This map provides the ‘approximate locations and timelines of Port Perry dumps during the early to mid-1900s. It's interesting to note, but disturbing by today’s standards, that all the dumps were located along the streets abutting the lake, or a very short distance from the water's edge. Below, left, is a picture of the dump located beside the former railroad line, during the 1940s. The old grain elevator can be seen in the distance. Continued from page 23 those labelled “Esco Distinctive Embalming,” fluid. A quick check on e-Bay and we find identical embalming bottles, dated from the early 1900s, selling for between $25 and $40 each. About the same time as the dump along the south end of Water St. was in use, there was another site near the lake also being used to get rid of garbage. An April 1927 article in the local newspaper reported, “due to widening of the Scugog Bridge (now known as the to the lakeside dump near the causeway where they were disposed. Many of the cars ended up at the water’s edge, but were removed when the causeway was expanded by the pro- vincial government in 1961. Further research reveals no further information about this dump site, although it appears from newspaper articles that dumping was taking place on both sides of the roadway (7A Hwy.), which today would be the land adjacent to the Vos In- dependent grocery store parking lot on the north side and the Homestead Furniture property on the south side. No further mention of Port Perry's garbage dumps could be found for 15 years, but in August 1943 the newspaper reported a new site for the town dump had been selected, north and west of the current dump, along the old C.N.R. track beyond the limits of private property. The article went on to report, “What has been an eyesore at the lakefront for some time is to be cleaned up and the town dump is to be moved to a new site. Great carelessness has been shown by a number of people in the way they have scattered rubbish of all kinds, not only on the dump itself, but along the road side to the ‘Curts’ corner (Dairy Queen corner) and across the Scugog Bridge” (causeway). The following week the Village placed an advertisement causeway), arrangements have been made for citizens requiring to dump rubbish, to dump it on the south side of the bridge, not on the bridge. It was when this dump, near the west end of the causeway (Scugog Bridge) was still being used that a rumour began suggesting the causeway had been built on top of old automobiles. But the rumour about the causeway having been built on top of hundreds of old cars was untrue, ac- cording to information provided by lifelong resident Bill Carnegie before he died a number of years ago. Bill explained the rumour got started because in January 1931, following a fire at the Carnegie Ford dealership (located behind the present Home Hardware), the burnt-out shells of a number of cars were hauled 26 FOCUS - AUGUST 2009 es ee = a | aes The Durham Region dump on Regional Rd. #8 just before it closed in 1989.