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35-518: Founded in 1893 in Moore Park as a 9-hole course and moved to Rosedale, Toronto in 1895–1896 on what is now Rosedale Field . It was an eighteen hole course on 15 acres/ This location was short-lived as the land was owned by The Scottish Ontario and Manitoba Land Company (founded by William Bain Scarth in 1879) and the area was being acquired to become a residential development called North Rosedale. In 1909,

70-525: A couple of residences during his tenure. Upon his arrival in Upper Canada in 1792, he used one of the buildings at Navy Hall in Niagara-on-the-Lake as a residence, sharing the space with Upper Canada’s legislature. When Simcoe moved the colonial capital to York (present-day Toronto ) in 1793, he built a summer residence, Castle Frank , north of the settlement in 1794. Simcoe's successor and

105-486: A former general manager of the golf club was awarded $ 370,000 by an Ontario judge as compensation for being fired in 1997 after he tried to change the club's no-Jews policy . The club has hosted several tournaments including the Canadian Open in 1912 and 1928. In more recent years, the club has elected to only host tournaments that cause little disruption to the membership. The course plays to par 71 (73 for ladies) and

140-479: A key component of his party's election platform to close Chorley Park, promising that an opulent palace would not be maintained by the taxpayers of Ontario; Chorley Park used 965 tons of coal to operate, whereas the average Toronto home used only six to seven. After Hepburn was appointed premier , following the Liberal Party 's victory in the 1937 provincial election, he ensured that Albert Edward Matthews would be

175-467: A new Government House on the same site. In 1868, construction began on a new Government House, designed in the Second Empire style by architect Henry Langley . A three-storey red brick home, trimmed with Ohio cut stone, the building featured a tower, steeply sloped mansard roofs and dormer windows, with the main entrance and carriage porch facing Simcoe Street. The drawing room on the first floor and

210-491: Is 6,525 yards in length. Other clubs in Toronto: 43°44′10″N 79°23′31″W  /  43.736°N 79.392°W  / 43.736; -79.392 Rosedale, Toronto 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 wild roses that grew there in abundance. It

245-576: Is also a part of the University-Rosedale electoral district, and is represented by Jessica Bell . 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. Rosedale is the location of the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club , the oldest active and surviving lawn tennis club in

280-411: Is built among three ravines , 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

315-464: 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 . According to Today’s Senior Magazine, it is known as the area where the city's ' old money ' lives, and is home to some of Canada's richest and most famous citizens including Gerry Schwartz , founder of Onex Corporation , Adrienne Clarkson ,

350-497: Is traditionally on the first Saturday in May and is run and funded by Mooredale House. According to Census tracts 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

385-596: The Loire Valley . It was one of the most expensive residences ever constructed in Canada at the time and outshone even Rideau Hall in size and grandeur. Sir John Strathearn Hendrie and his wife were the first viceregal couple to live at Chorley Park. The Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII ) stayed here for three days in late August 1919, on his cross-Canada tour. During the Great Depression , Mitchell Hepburn made it

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420-471: The University of Toronto and now functions as the international students' centre. The government sought to construct a new government house on Bloor Street East and 12 architects submitted proposals in 1909. However, as that area was becoming too commercial, the province moved the site to a 14-acre (5.7 ha) parcel of secluded and undeveloped land in Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood. The proceeds from

455-498: The War of 1812 . After the destruction of the Fort York house, York did not have another Government House until after the War of 1812 . In 1815, the government purchased Elmsley House, a more commodious Georgian residence, for its Lieutenant Governor. The new Government House was located in a wooded area to the west of the settled portion of the (then) Town of York , roughly midway on

490-543: 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. 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, and Bayview Avenue to

525-474: The Rosedale Golf Club. In 2004, the club was sued by McDonald's Canada chairman and CEO George Cohon , who alleged that the club rejected his membership application due to his Jewish heritage . In response, the club eventually officially discontinued its policy of not admitting Jewish members, and admitted Cohon to the club. Cohon became the club's first Jewish member in its 111 year history. In 2004,

560-529: 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. One of Canada's foremost fiction writers both pre- and post-World War II, Morley Callaghan lived in

595-448: The average Rosedale house sold for over $ 1,800,000. Additionally, Rosedale possesses a large population of people of English, Scottish, and Irish ethnic origin. Rosedale is represented in the House of Commons by Chrystia Freeland 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

630-594: The block now occupied by Roy Thomson Hall and Metro Hall in downtown Toronto. Built in 1798, the residence had been the home of the Chief Justice and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly , John Elmsley , and it served as the colony's Government House from 1815 to 1841 (and intermittently from 1841 to 1858, during some of the times when Toronto served as the capital of the Province of Canada ). From 1847 to 1849 it

665-504: The colony's second Lieutenant Governor, Peter Hunter , initially continued to reside in his own home, Russell Abbey, located at the south-west corner of Princess and Front streets. The first official government house was a one-storey, U-shaped frame house built at Fort York in 1800, designed by Captain Robert Pilkington and first occupied by Hunter. The structure was destroyed when a nearby powder magazine exploded in 1813 during

700-436: The community. 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. Houses range from Edwardian and Tudor in style to the more common Victorian and Georgian. 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

735-600: The course moved north along the Don River to its current site between the neighbourhoods of Teddington Park to the west, Lawrence Park to the south, The Bridle Path to the east and Hoggs Hollow to the north. Members of the Toronto Jewish community bought land and established the Oakdale Golf & Country Club in 1926 in response to antisemitism in Canada that strictly excluded Jews from private golf clubs, including

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770-576: 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. 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

805-427: The last lieutenant governor of Ontario to live in an official residence; in 1937, after only 22 years and seven viceroys, Chorley Park was closed. The contents of the mansion were auctioned off the following year, bringing in a profit of $ 18,000 ( $ 367,200 in 2023 dollars ), and Ontario became the first province in Canada not to have a government house . ( Alberta also closed its Government House in 1938.) The estate

840-499: The rough footprint of its foundations. The once formal gardens have long gone fallow and, today, Chorley Park is a naturalized parkland. Ontario's Lieutenant Governor uses an office and suite of rooms for entertainment in the Ontario Legislative Building , and lives in his or her private Toronto home or is provided a rented residence by the provincial government . Since the closure of the last Government House, whenever

875-618: The sale of the Bloor Street site were used to acquire the land in Rosedale. Chorley Park, the fourth government house, was constructed between 1911 and 1915. It was named for Chorley , Lancashire , the birthplace of Toronto alderman and first chair of the Toronto Public Library , John Hallam . The house was designed by Francis R. Heakes and built of Credit Valley stone in a French Renaissance style, reminiscent of French châteaux in

910-410: The similarly-named Elmsley Villa, located near what is today the intersection of Bay and Grosvenor Streets (northwest corner), rather than at Elmsley House. Elmsley Villa was a two-storey Georgian structure that stood until at least the 1860s. Elmsley House was destroyed by fire in 1862. Four years after the fire at Elmsley House, the firm of Gundry and Langley of Toronto was commissioned to design

945-413: The southern part of Rosedale at 20 Dale Avenue from 1951 until his death in 1990; 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 . Hockey Hall of Fame inductees W. A. Hewitt and Foster Hewitt , lived on Roxborough Street at Yonge Street . Rosedale

980-442: The state bedroom on the second floor faced Lake Ontario over a large landscaped garden. Completed in 1870, the house cost CA$ 105,000 , and its first resident was John Beverley Robinson . By the 20th century, the development of railways and industrial uses nearby prompted the provincial government to seek a more appropriate location for its vice-regal residence, as it had done more than a century before. The third Government House

1015-410: The time, Chorley Park was considered dilapidated and outmoded and municipal funds were being spent demolishing heritage structures throughout the city to make room for modern buildings. The building was demolished in 1961 and the grounds of the estate were added to the civic parks system. The only trace of Government House left is the bridge to the forecourt and some depressions in the earth that outline

1050-403: 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

1085-472: The world. The club moved to Rosedale in 1913. Government House (Ontario)#Fourth Government House (Chorley Park) Government House was the official residence of the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada and Ontario , Canada. Four buildings were used for this purpose, none of which exist today, making Ontario one of four provinces not to have an official vice-regal residence. The colony's first Lieutenant Governor, John Graves Simcoe , occupied

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1120-435: 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. In 2015

1155-644: Was bought by the federal Crown-in-Council and thereafter served various functions, including a military hospital during the Second World War , the headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Toronto, and a residence for refugees of the 1956 Hungarian uprising , including several of Imre Nagy 's staff members. Under Mayor Nathan Phillips in 1960, the City of Toronto bought the house for $ 100,000 ($ 1.01 million in 2023 dollars ) in order to destroy it and create municipal parkland. At

1190-579: Was home to the Toronto Normal School . For many years after its purchase by the government, the residence was still known by the name of its former owner, with the correspondence of the Lieutenant Governor typically dated from "Elmsley House". In 1846, the grounds were used for the first annual Provincial Agricultural Fair . Beginning in 1849, Lord Elgin , the Governor General of the then united Province of Canada, resided for two years at

1225-524: Was sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1912 and demolished in 1915. During the transition from the third to the fourth Government House, the Lieutenant Governor temporarily lived at Pendarves (later known as Cumberland House) from 1912 to 1915. Originally designed as an Italianate villa by Frederick William Cumberland for his family's use and completed in 1860, the house is located at 33 St. George Street. It has been owned since 1923 by

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