Rosedale - Part III

Rosedale - Part III

South Rosedale was first settled by Sheriff William Jarvis and his wife, Mary, in 1826 after Jarvis inherited his father's home there two years earlier. Mary Jarvis, the granddaughter of chief justice and loyalist William Drummer Powell frequently walked and rode on horseback around the trails for that formed Rosedale's meandering streets (which are one of the area's trademarks). She named the estate "Rosedale" as a tribute to the abundance of wild roses that graced the hillsides of their estate. The Jarvis estate was subdivided in 1854 and became Toronto's first "garden suburb". The Jarvis Family sold the Rosedale homestead in 1864, which led to the residential development of the area soon after, including the extension of Cluny Drive.

A noteworthy piece of Rosedale's History, is that it was home to Ontario's fourth Government House. The house was called Chorley Park, and it was built for the Lieutenant Governor in 1915.It was demolished in 1960 by the city of Toronto to save money. It is now a public park of the same name.

Park in Rosedale. White, yellow flowers in Rosedale Hot pink flower with yellow middle. White petals, yellow middle flower in background.

Chorley Park Tulips.

Rosedale rues.

Morley Callaghan (22 February 1903 - 25 August 1990). Morley Callaghan wrote 18 novels and over 100 short stories, all about Canadians. Critically acclaimed around the World, he has been compared with Chekhov and Turgenev. He sold his first story while attending Riverdale Collegiate and worked as a reporter for the Toronto Star during his student years at the University of Toronto. In 1928 he published his first novel, Strange Fugitive and in 1929 he married Loretto Dee. They lived in Paris - where they were befriended by Hemingway, Fizgerald and Joyce - then in New York and Pennsylvania until the early thirties, when they returned to Toronto. Callagahan moved to Dale Avenue in 1951. Neighours often saw and talked to him as he crossed this bridge with his wife and dog, Nikki, then with his dog, then alone until he died in 1990.

Rosedale Crescent Road park.

House on Roxborough street in Rosedale.

A big house in red bricks.

A family house in Rosedale.

Light blue flower bush, with other plants. Close ups.

A Green house.

A residential building in Rosedale.

Under the bridge of the Mount Pleasant Highway.

Cat on a Thornwood Road.

House on a Mont Pleasant Road.