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PORT PERRY STAR Ye CENTENNIAL EDITION FIRST PORT PERRY ; | ij j % ite dg f : i | i fie: Seugog Street to the 7th Concession. Simgoe Street was the earliest main read north from the 'front' at Lake Ontario. It was laid out in 1828 by Mr. Smeilie of Newmarket, and went through both Prince Albert and Borelia on its way north to Mariposa. It intersected the main road built in the early 1840's by Peter Perry's Windsor Road Company from i angles. Crandell's plan was drawn in 1845 and registered in Whitby in 1849, being the i i. i Hit HH ul Hl + i i ; Ht ki eli i : ' il af oa lll :! fii, Aut i i commercial establishments to be found in ¥ prosperous mill village--post office, , liveries and stores. It's location on the road to the north, Simcoe Street, g Seugog, the 'Woodman' and began tri- to build a new road, the 'Nonquon Road' SE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1971 -- 6 TTLEMENT (our Oshawa road) which ran from the ridges through flatter country right through Port Perry to join up with Simcoe Streets again north of the village, effect- ively by-passing Borelia for both north and.south-bound traffic. Perry's Scugog village had conquered its first rival, Crandell 's Borelia, a victory it wouldrepeat twenty years later in capturing the grain trade from Prince Albert with the help of the railway. Peter Perry died in 1851. His place as architect of the development of Port Perry was taken by Joseph Bigelow who presided over Port Perry's growth and was instrumental in bringing in the railway in 1872. Port Perry grew westward along streets laid out parallel to Lilla Street in new plans by Bigelow and the li heirs -- Bigelow - Crandell, Cochrane - Caleb and RYE Rosa - Ella. Reuben Crandell's Borelia streets, running at right angles to Queen St. never developed further than Elgin (Silver) Street. However, Borelia had grown east to Ottawa St. along Queen and it met Queen at right angles. To fit it into the pattern of the town developing from the east, Ottawa St. was drwwr parallel to Rosa-Ella both to the north and to the south of the intersection. Not much is left of early Borelia, but it leaves its mark on our town plan, as the cause of the crook in Ottawa Street, and in the name of Queen Street itself. Bearing in mind the old proverb, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," we propose to vary our illustrations with Ross and Margs CONGRATULATIONS ay BN BIRTHDAY Stores may change . . But the service is the same 5 Rm coe eae CARLOAD painvce user occasional sketches of country scenery, and have selected, as '* commencement, Lake Scugog and its vicinity. We mean by our quotation that having, for eighteen months, devoted our attention exclusively to sketches of cities or towns in British North America, for the purpose of show- ing he rapid increase and prosperity of these provinces, it is now expedient to show that there are nooks and scenes in the country worth visiting for pleasure alone -- or what is better in this ultilitarian age, spots, a visit to which will combine both profit and pleasure. We begin by a short extract: -- "The artist recommends -- parties intending picnics next spring to think of Lake Scugog and its vicinity. found wanting, as our artist goes on to of it, as it presently exists, has been artifically made; the formation of the dam at Lindsay, many years ago, raised the water and forced it back over the land, thus flooding a large tract of country. From this cause the lake has not yet been properly delineated on any map, all, hitherto published, having been copied from the original plans of the surveyors. "At the time these townships were Continued on page 14 PORT PERRY on your 100th (1955) (1971)