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- On
The Road Again
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- Planning
an antiquing road or train trip in Ontario this year?
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- Ontario
has dozens of favourite scenic drives and hundreds of unique
destinations for collectors of antiques and collectibles.
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- If
you have a favourite antiquing road trip in Ontario, e-mail the
details and we will share it with our readers.
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- Each
of our antiquing town listings includes the official web link
for the town.
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first six towns profiled are Belleville, Cookstown, Elora, Picton,
Port Hope and Port Perry.
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- Port Perry
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- Belleville
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- Cookstown
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- Elora
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- Picton
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- Port Hope
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- Port Perry - A Queen Street charmer
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- By John Cosway
- Some small towns in Ontario
have main streets that quickly put you in the mood for antiques,
tea and cookies, and this is one of those towns.
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- Queen St. E., in contrast to
Hwy. 7A - a major highway a few blocks away that cuts through
Port Perry - generates a laid-back atmosphere.
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- The charm of Queen St. E., with
its tea rooms, antique stores, specialty shops and Victorian
architecture, is heightened year-round by the spectacular view
of Lake Scugog at the foot of the street.
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- Several times a year, the population
of Port Perry increases for popular weekend antiques, collectibles
and craft shows held at the local high school and at the town's
arena complex.
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- As in any town with 19th century
houses, churches and other landmarks, there is history to be
told and longtime residents are up to the telling.
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- If you ask what was special
about 1992, they will tell you it marked the 200th birthday of
Peter Perry, a politician whose mark earned him a large slice
of local history.
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- Perry's parents were United
Empire Loyalists who fled the United States following the American
Revolution and settled in Bath, Ontario, where he was born in
1792. In 1824, the Reform Party candidate for Scugog was elected
to the provincial legislature.
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- His achievements during 12 years
in the legislature and his efforts as a businessman to develop
the village of Scugog were not forgotten. When he died of a kidney
disorder in 1851, Scugog was quickly renamed Port Perry.
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- Railroad buffs will be told
Perry's vision of a railway linking the village with Port Whitby
became a reality in 1871, thanks partly to his son, John, who
continued the campaign as a municipal politician after his father
died.
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- The railroad, renamed Midland
Railway when Lindsay was added, made its last run in May of 1939
during the Royal Visit.
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- Postcard collectors will note
two dozen steam-boats once operated on Lake Scugog in the 1800s,
some of them ferrying passengers from Port Perry to Lindsay.
But the new Lindsay-Haliburton railway led to their demise in
the early 1900s.
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- Why would collectors of chiropractic
paraphernalia be interested in Port Perry? Hoping, perhaps, to
find anything relating to Daniel David Palmer, who was born here
March 7, 1845, and moved to the U.S. in 1865.
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- Palmer coined the word "chiropractic"
in 1895 after a patient regained his hearing when he manipulated
a bump in his back. The Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport,
Iowa, has been accepting students for almost a century and neck
and back pain sufferers can tip their hats daily to Palmer.
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- Planning to stay awhile? The
walleye, muskie and large-mouth bass are usually biting in season
on Lake Scugog; the tranquil Nonguon Wildlife Preserve is nearby;
waterfront parks and playgrounds provide year-round activities
etc.
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- For more about Port Perry, visit
the BIA web site at thttp://www.township.scugog.on.ca/
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