Scugog carrying place
The Scugog carrying place was the southern end of a route connecting Lake Ontario and Lake Scugog, in what is now Oshawa, Ontario.[1][2] According to the Oshawa Museum travellers followed the route up Oshawa Creek to where it forked with Harmony Creek, with one branch leading to Lake Scugog and the other to Lake Simcoe.[3]
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Joel Wittnebel (2015-05-05). "Oshawa celebrates First Nations heritage". Oshawa Express. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
The path was previously one of four major routes that connected the interior of the province to Lake Ontario.
- ^ Grant Karcich (2013). "Scugog Carrying Place: A Frontier Pathway". Dundurn Press. p. 70. ISBN 9781459707511. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
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Melissa Cole (2018-06-15). "The Scugog Carrying Place". Oshawa Museum.
The trail can best be described as an inverted "Y". From Lake Ontario, one branch went northward by Harmony Creek and the other by the Oshawa Creek. Canoes would have been used as far up the creek as they could go before portaging. The two footpaths converged near the present Columbus and then united to cross to the location of present day Port Perry.
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