Rosedale is a Dispersed Rural Community and unincorporated place located in the
city
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of
Kawartha Lakes
The City of Kawartha Lakes (2021 population 79,247) is a unitary municipality in Central Ontario, Canada. It is a municipality legally structured as a single-tier city; however, Kawartha Lakes is the size of a typical Ontario county and is mostl ...
,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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,
north-west of
Lindsay. It is partly in
geographic
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Fenelon Township
The Township of Fenelon was a municipality in present-day Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. The township was named after François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (missionary) (1641–79) who was a missionary in New France, establishing a mission ...
and partly in
Somerville Township,
and is on the
Rosedale River
The Rosedale River is a river in the City of Kawartha Lakes in Central Ontario, Canada. It is in the Great Lakes Basin and is part of the Trent–Severn Waterway. The river is named after Rosa Dale, the wife of settler John Cameron, who first sett ...
, part of the
Trent–Severn Waterway
The Trent–Severn Waterway is a canal route connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, at Port Severn. Its major natural waterways include the Trent River, Otonabee River, Kawartha Lakes, Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching an ...
, where that river drains
Balsam Lake on its way to
Cameron Lake.
Trent–Severn Waterway Lock 35 "Rosedale", completed in 1873 thus allowing boats to traverse between Cameron and Balsam Lakes, is on the Rosedale River just east of the community, and
Ontario Highway 35
King's Highway 35, commonly referred to as Highway 35, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, linking Highway 401 with the Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, and Algonquin Provincial Park. The highway travels from wes ...
crosses over the river at Rosedale.
Rosedale was for a time named Rosa Dale, after the wife of settler John Cameron, who first settled the area now known as
Fenelon Falls
Fenelon Falls is a village in Ontario, Canada, part of the city of Kawartha Lakes. Nicknamed the "Jewel of the Kawarthas," it has a population of 2,500 permanent inhabitants, which swells in the summer due to tourism and holiday cottages. Fenelon ...
The population of Rosedale is roughly 500.
Facts and figures
*Rosedale celebrated the First Annual "National Marina Day" on August 13, 2005, with events at the local Rosedale Marina.
*In 2001, Rosedale played host to part of an episode of the ''OLN'' Reality Series "''Drifters: The Water Wars''" as they passed through the
Trent-Severn Waterway.
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References
Communities in Kawartha Lakes
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