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{{about|the Toronto neighbourhood|the nearby TTC subway station|Rosedale (TTC)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                   = Rosedale
| settlement_type        = Neighbourhood
| image_skyline          = Rosedale-Moore Park 2025.jpg
| image_size             = 275
| image_caption          = Aerial view of Rosedale (2025)
| image_map              = Rosedale map.PNG
| map_caption            = Vicinity
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| pushpin_label_position = none
| pushpin_map_caption    = Location within Toronto
| pushpin_mapsize        = 220
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| subdivision_type       = Country
| subdivision_name       = Canada
| subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Province]]
| subdivision_name1      = [[Ontario]]
| subdivision_type2      = City
| subdivision_name2      = [[Toronto]]
| population_footnotes   = <ref>[https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/geo/geosearch-georecherche/index-eng.cfm?client=census&language=EN&DGUID=2016A000011124 GeoSearch]</ref>
| area_total_km2         = 2.741
| population_as_of       = 2016
| population_total       = 7816
| population_density_km2 = 2852
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'''Rosedale''' is a neighbourhood in central [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada. It was formerly the estate of [[William Botsford Jarvis]], and so named by his wife, granddaughter of [[William Dummer Powell]], for the [[Rosa acicularis|wild roses]] that grew there in abundance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://torontohistory.net/rosedale.html|title=Rosedale}}</ref> It is located north of [[Downtown Toronto]] and is one of its oldest suburbs. In 2013, Rosedale was ranked the best neighbourhood in Toronto to live in by ''[[Toronto Life]]''.<ref name="torontolife">{{cite web|title=The Best Places to Live in the City: A (Mostly) Scientific Ranking of All 140 Neighbourhoods in Toronto &#124; Toronto Life|date=14 August 2013|url=https://torontolife.com/real-estate/toronto-best-neighbourhoods/|publisher=torontolife.com|access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref> According to Today’s Senior Magazine, it is known as the area where the city's '[[old money]]' lives,<ref>{{cite web|title=Rosedale - old money and new luxury|url=http://www.gilzohar.ca/articles/canada/c1997-5.html}}</ref> and is home to some of Canada's richest and most famous citizens including [[Gerry Schwartz]], founder of [[Onex Corporation]], [[Adrienne Clarkson]], the 26th [[Governor General of Canada]], and her husband, the author [[John Ralston Saul]], as well as [[David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet]] of the [[Thomson Corporation]], the latter of whom is the richest man in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|title=#9 Kenneth Thomson & Family|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/0ZB0.html}}</ref>

Rosedale's boundaries consist of the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks to the north, [[Yonge Street]] to the west, Aylmer Avenue and Rosedale Valley Road to the south,<ref name="southrosedale">{{cite web|url=http://southrosedale.org/about-us/#|title=About Us &#124; South Rosedale Residents' Assoc &#124; The SRRA is one of Canada's oldest ratepayer groups, formally incorporated in 1931.|publisher=southrosedale.org|access-date=2015-09-02}}</ref><ref name="southrosedale2">{{cite web|url=http://southrosedale.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SouthRosedale_MAP2.jpg|title=Image: SouthRosedale_MAP2.jpg, (382 × 446 px)|publisher=southrosedale.org|access-date=2015-09-02}}</ref><ref name="toronto">{{cite web|url=http://www1.toronto.ca/city_of_toronto/city_planning/urban_design/files/pdf/hcd_southrosedale_plan.pdf|date=15 May 2003|title=South Rosedale Heritage Conservation District Study, November 2002|author=Marsha Kelmans|access-date=2015-09-02}}</ref> and [[Bayview Avenue]] to the east. The neighbourhood is within the City of Toronto's Rosedale-Moore Park neighbourhood. The neighbourhood is divided into a north and south portion by the Park Drive Ravine.

==History==
[[File:Chorley Park.jpg|thumb|left|The fourth [[Government House (Ontario)|Government House]] for Ontario's [[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario|Lieutenant Governor]] was located in Rosedale. Built in 1915, it was demolished in 1960, with the area redeveloped to Chorley Park]]

South Rosedale was first settled by Sheriff [[William Botsford Jarvis|William Jarvis]] and his wife, Mary, in 1826 after Jarvis inherited his father's home there two years earlier.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rosedale - Toronto Historical Association |url=http://torontohistory.net/rosedale.html}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Rosedale |url=http://www.torontoneighbourhoods.net/neighbourhoods/midtown/rosedale/history |publisher=Toronto Neighbourhood Guide}}</ref> The Jarvis estate was subdivided in 1854 and became Toronto's first "garden suburb".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://torontoplaques.com/Pages/Rosedale_Villa.html |title=Rosedale Villa}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/ionic025/history/more-history/william-botsford-jarvis|title=William Botsford Jarvis}}</ref>

A noteworthy piece of Rosedale's History, is that it was home to Ontario's fourth [[Government House (Ontario)#Fourth Government House (Chorley Park)|Government House]]. The house was called Chorley Park, and it was built for the Lieutenant Governor in 1915.<ref>{{cite web|title=Historicist: The Saga of Chorley Park|url=http://torontoist.com/2008/08/historicist/}}</ref> It was demolished in 1960 by the city of Toronto to save money.<ref>{{cite web|title=Biography – HEPBURN, MITCHELL FREDERICK – Volume XVIII|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hepburn_mitchell_frederick_18E.html}}</ref> It is now a public park of the same name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=a72950db7c985410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD|title=Chorely Park|access-date=2016-08-09|archive-date=2016-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161206002152/http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=a72950db7c985410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Notable residents===
One of Canada's foremost fiction writers both pre- and post-World War II, [[Morley Callaghan]] lived in the southern part of Rosedale at 20 Dale Avenue from 1951 until his death in 1990;<ref>{{cite news|title=Following the Footsteps of Toronto's Past Greats|date=30 June 2018|url=https://nationalpost.com/life/homes/following-the-footsteps-of-torontos-past-greats|work=National Post|access-date=23 November 2019|quote=Amelia Earhart, Morley Callaghan and Lester B. Pearson are among those whose past homes have been honoured with blue plaques}}</ref> a historic plaque at the nearby Glen Road footbridge summarizes Callaghan's noteworthy writing career and his best-known literary contemporaries, including [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.torontoplaques.com/Pages/Morley_Callaghan.html |title=Toronto's Historical Plaques |date=11 July 2016 |publisher=Tronto Plaques |access-date=23 November 2019 |quote=Morley Callaghan wrote 18 novels and over 100 short stories, all about Canadians. Critically acclaimed around the world |archive-date=8 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190208122710/http://www.torontoplaques.com/Pages/Morley_Callaghan.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] inductees [[W. A. Hewitt]] and [[Foster Hewitt]], lived on Roxborough Street at [[Yonge Street]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Beginnings: Foster Hewitt|last=Hewitt|first=Foster|author-link=Foster Hewitt|date=May 23, 1981|newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]]|location=Ottawa, Ontario|page=163|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94134788/hewitt-1981/}}{{free access}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Hewitt|first=W. A.|author-link=W. A. Hewitt|title=Down the Stretch: Recollections of a Pioneer Sportsman and Journalist|publisher=[[Ryerson Press]]|date=1958|location=Toronto, Ontario|oclc=8623829|page=41}}</ref>

==Character==
[[File:South Glen Road Bridge.jpg|thumb|left|Glen Road bridge at Dale Avenue over the Rosedale valley (circa late 1800s)]]
[[File:Rosedale Valley Road (1).jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Toronto ravine system|Ravines]] surround the neighbourhood of Rosedale.]]

Rosedale is built among three [[Toronto ravine system|ravine]]s, preserved as parkland. Rosedale is full of cul de sacs and convoluted routes through the neighbourhood, which coupled with other physical boundaries (such as the ravines and bridges) lead to low levels of vehicular traffic. Even though Rosedale is located in the middle of Toronto, virtually no vehicular traffic can be heard with the abundance of trees and foliage that surround the community.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trebhome.com/about_gta/neighbourhood/index.html|title=Welcome to Rosedale}}</ref> The homes are mostly single family detached dwellings, many of which are at least 100 years old including some former farmhouses that are closer to 200.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tobuilt.ca/php/tobuildings_more.php?search_fd3=4739|title=Drumsnab}}</ref> Houses range from Edwardian and Tudor in style to the more common Victorian and Georgian.

[[Rosedale Field|Rosedale Park]] is home to the annual spring park party, Mayfair. The event typically consists of rides, games, flea market and other such carnival-like activities. The event is traditionally on the first Saturday in May and is run and funded by Mooredale House.

According to [[Census tract]]s 0086.00 and 0087.00 of the [[2006 Canadian census]], Rosedale has 7,672 residents, up 4.8% from the 2001 census. The median income in this Census Tract in the 2006 Canadian Census was $55,906, while the average total income in this Census was $165,827, one of the highest incomes of all Toronto neighbourhoods. The median income level was also double that of Canada and Ontario, while the average total income levels were 4.5 to 5 times larger than that of Ontario and Canada. Similarly, the total income levels reflected in the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) were exceedingly high with the total income median at $61,284, more than double that of Ontario and Canada, and the total income average at $210,484, more than 5 times that of Ontario and Canada.<ref>Statistics Canada, 2006, 2011</ref> In 2015 the average Rosedale house sold for over $1,800,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/exclusive-how-much-are-homes-in-toronto-neighbourhoods/article24060725/|title=How Much Are Homes in Toronto Neighborhoods}}</ref> Additionally, Rosedale possesses a large population of people of English, Scottish, and Irish ethnic origin.<ref>Statistics Canada, 2006, 2011</ref>

===Important buildings===
[[File:View of south facade of Summerhill North Toronto CPR station.jpg|thumb|[[North Toronto station]] is a former [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] station located in northwest Rosedale.]]
{{See also|List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto}}
* [[Integral House]]
* [[Studio Building (Toronto)|The Studio Building]] (25 Severn Street)
* [[North Toronto station]]
* [[University of Toronto President's Estate]]
* [[Rosedale Presbyterian Church]]
* [[Rosedale United Church]]

==Education==
[[File:Branksome Hall.JPG|thumb|[[Branksome Hall]] is an all-girls school located in Rosedale.]]

===Public===
* Rosedale Public School
* [[Rosedale Heights School of the Arts]]

===Private===
* [[Branksome Hall]] - an all-girls school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.branksome.on.ca/ouribadvantage/Pages/default.aspx|title=Our IB Advantage}}</ref>
*Gradale Academy- an outdoor education school.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/where-nature-is-the-classroom/article36410833/|title=When nature is the classroom|date=2017-09-28|website=The Globe and Mail|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref>

==Electoral districts==
Rosedale is represented in the House of Commons by [[Chrystia Freeland]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/2160456/federal-election-2015-university-rosedale-riding/|title=Federal Election 2015: University-Rosedale riding results}}</ref> and is a part of the Toronto's central district, renamed to [[University-Rosedale]] in 2015 and formerly known as Toronto Centre. In Provincial Parliament, Rosedale is also a part of the [[University—Rosedale (provincial electoral district)|University-Rosedale]] electoral district, and is represented by [[Jessica Bell (politician)|Jessica Bell]].

==Music==
Japanese composer [[Toru Takemitsu]] wrote a three movement piece for solo guitar called "Into the Woods" in 1995 whose second movement "Rosedale" was inspired in this area of Toronto.<ref>{{Citation |title=Mori no naka de (In the Woods) : II. Rosedale.  {{!}}  |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEsaisHgA0&list=PLpN_0c0G8fCEsoGLGCuSK7IrxqSIutu5Y&index=15|access-date=2025-11-05 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.573153&catNum=573153&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English|title=about this recording}}</ref>

{{wide image|Rosedale, Toronto - Panorama - April 2014.jpg|1000px|Whitney Park in Rosedale}}

==Toronto Lawn Tennis Club==
Rosedale is the location of the [[Toronto Lawn Tennis Club]], the oldest active and surviving lawn tennis club in the world. The club moved to Rosedale in 1913.<ref>Toronto Lawn Tennis Club. "Club History". https://www.torontolawn.com/history/</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Rosedale, Toronto}}
* [https://rosedalemainstreet.ca/ Rosedale BIA website]

{{Geographic location
| Northwest = 
| North  = [[Moore Park, Toronto|Moore Park]]
| Northeast = [[Governor's Bridge, Toronto|Governor's Bridge]]
| East   = [[Playter Estates]]
| Southeast = [[Cabbagetown, Toronto|Cabbagetown]]
| South  = [[St. James Town]]
| Southwest = [[Yorkville, Toronto|Yorkville]]
| West   = [[Summerhill, Toronto|Summerhill]]
| Center = Rosedale, Toronto
}}
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