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The completion of the Yale-New Westminster Wagon Road in 1873/1874 led directly to the settlement of Rosedale. J.C. Henderson and T.H. Henderson acquired land near the present town site in the early 1880s. A host of others followed. By 1890, there were enough families in the area to warrant building a school. This original one room school, with fifteen students, was located at the corner of Yale and McGrath Roads. This corner became the commercial centre of the community. There have been a variety of businesses located at this busy corner since the turn of the century, including a bank, stores, restaurants, garages, rooming house and post office. The corner remains the centre for the community.
The area's population boomed beginning in the 1890s. This boom lasted for more than thirty years, fuelled by the logging, railway and farming industries. It was a transition period that saw farms replace sawmills.
During this period the Methodist (now United, 1908) and Anglican (1912) churches were built and a hotel (1910), a new four room school (1914), community hall (1925) and some of the community's outstanding heritage farmhouses were built. Many of these links to this period can still be found in Rosedale.
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Main intersection of Yale Road East and McGrath Road in Rosedale. This view shows the former
McGrath garage, built in 1921 by Walter McGrath. Ron Denman photo, 1999 |
Rosedale - Modern, 2000 |
View of the Rosedale School and Rosedale General Store, Bartlett Brothers, ca. 1907-1908. P4635. |
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