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      <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="6" color="#990000"><b>Rosedale 
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    <td height="436" colspan="2" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Set 
      prominently on the heights above the ravine, Sheriff William Jarvis's Rosedale 
      would have been a striking sight to 19th century travellers using Yonge 
      Street. It was located on part of an original two-hundred-acre farm granted 
      to Captain George Playter in 1796. Jarvis acquired the western 110 acres 
      in 1824. Mary Jarvis named the estate for the wild roses that bloomed on 
      the property. In 1835, Jarvis, using plans drawn by John Howard, added two 
      new wings containing bedrooms, a morning room, a large verandah, a grape 
      house, a peach house and a conservatory. Orchards, quiet arbours, rose gardens, 
      and masses of flowers surrounded the house. Sheriff Jarvis was a hero in 
      York for defending the town in 1837, turning back the rebels to Montgomery's 
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      <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">In 1853, Jarvis sold 
        most of the estate to a developer, who registered a plan that divided 
        a hundred acres into sixty-two lots and laid out a number of curving streets 
        Avondale, Rosedale,Crescent, South Drive, and Park Road. The subdivision 
        was called Rose Park. Jarvis reserved the Rosedale house and twenty acres, 
        and his three married daughters and their husbands lived there after Mary 
        died in 1854. William died at Rosedale in 1864, and the remaining estate 
        was subdivided and sold. In 1875, D. L. Macpherson bought Rosedale for 
        his daughter, Christina, who lived there with her husband, Percival Ridout, 
        until it was demolished in 1905 to make way for Cluny Drive. From Sheriff 
        Jarvis's farm had grown a park-like suburb that eventually drew Toronto's 
        elite from Jarvis and Sherbourne Streets. (For more about Rosedale and 
        the Jarvises, see &quot;The Estates of Old Toronto&quot; by Liz Lundell 
        and &quot;Rosedale&quot; by Bess Crawford). </font></p>
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