Rosedale is an unincorporated village located in the city

City

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 of Kawartha Lakes

Kawartha Lakes, Ontario

The city of Kawartha Lakes is a unitary municipality in Central Ontario, Canada. Although called a city, Kawartha Lakes is the size of a typical Ontarian county and is mostly rural....

, partially in Fenelon Township and Somerville Township, Canada

Canada

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. It is home to Lock 35 of the Trent-Severn Waterway

Trent-Severn Waterway

The Trent–Severn Waterway is a Canadian canal system formerly used for industrial and transportation purposes and now for recreational and tourism purposes, connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to the Georgian Bay portion of Lake Huron at Port Severn...

 on Balsam Lake

Balsam Lake (Ontario)

Balsam Lake is a lake located in the Kawartha lakes region of south central Ontario, Canada. It is 16 km long and averages 3 km wide, though its actual width varies due to the many large bays the carve its shoreline...

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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

Travellers pass through Rosedale regularly while travelling on Highway 35 north of Fenelon Falls, Ontario

Fenelon Falls, Ontario

Fenelon Falls is a village in Ontario, Canada, part of the city of Kawartha Lakes. Nicknamed the "Jewel of the Kawarthas," it has a population of 1,800 permanent inhabitants, which swells in the summer due to tourism and cottaging. Fenelon Falls is home to lock 34 on the Trent-Severn Waterway...

 to Coboconk.

The village of Rosedale is located Twenty-nine kilometers north-west of Lindsay

Lindsay, Ontario

Lindsay is a community of 19,361 people on the Scugog River in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-eastern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately west of Peterborough...

. 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
  Trent-Severn Waterway
  The Trent–Severn Waterway is a Canadian canal system formerly used for industrial and transportation purposes and now for recreational and tourism purposes, connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to the Georgian Bay portion of Lake Huron at Port Severn...
  
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The Rosedale lock was completed first in 1873, allowing boats to traverse between Cameron and Balsam Lakes.