Rosedale is a Dispersed Rural Community and unincorporated place located in the
city
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of
Kawartha Lakes
Kawartha Lakes (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population: 79,247) is a List of municipalities in Ontario , single-tier municipality in Central Ontario, Canada. Though structured as a single-tier municipality, Kawartha Lakes is the size of a typica ...
,
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 missio ...
and partly in
Somerville Township,
and is on the
Rosedale River, part of the
Trent–Severn Waterway, 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 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
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.
Playback :: Canadian reality series by Canadians for Canadians
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References
Communities in Kawartha Lakes
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