ROSEDALE

NAME: Rosedale COUNTY: N/A ROADS: 4WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Mild summer,cold winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: East Central Alberta REMAINS: Current residences..

It was in 1918 when the present site of Rosedale got its start. A returning soldier from World War I opened a candy and fruit store and the town literally sprang up around it. It flourished until the depression when its population peaked at around 400, languished for ten years, as did most towns in Canada, then boomed through the ensuing war years of World War II. But that was not to last. When the mines closed in 1952, the population decreased as people moved away to find employment elsewhere. Today its railway station is gone as is its hardware, drug store, general stores, restaurants, cookhouse, bunkhouses and many of its people. But those left know now that their village should make it. Not as a booming mining town, but as a peaceful suburb in the heart of the Drumheller Valley. H.B. Chenoweth

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