Henry Dale
Abt 1848 - 1900

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• Birth	Abt 1848	England
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Jul 1900
  Buried	Brampton Cemetery, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I95	Brydon family tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2010

  
  

  Father	Edward Dale,   b. 10 Oct 1827, Dorking, Surrey, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Sarah Warren,   b. 19 Dec 1831, Charlwood, Surrey, England ,   d. 13 Sep 1924, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Married	18 Sep 1850	Charlwood, Surrey, England
  Family ID	F65	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Jane Young,   b. 1859, Ireland ,   d. 3 Jan 1900, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Married	21 Mar 1878	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Children	> 1. Bertha Warren Dale,   b. 25 Jan 1879, Chinguacousy Twp., Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1944 > 2. Sarah Jane Dale,   b. 18 Jan 1881, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 29 Jun 1968   3. Susie Dale,   b. 30 Mar 1883, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Apr 1888, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada   4. Edward Henry Dale,   b. 14 Feb 1885, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 22 Dec 1918, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada > 5. Fannie Dale,   b. 9 Nov 1887, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Dec 1918, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada > 6. Kate Dale,   b. 9 Dec 1887, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1938 > 7. Ethel Dale,   b. 17 Mar 1893, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 Apr 1943, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2010
  Family ID	F34	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Event Birth - Abt 1848 - England Married - 21 Mar 1878 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Buried - - Brampton Cemetery, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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  Henry Dale from The Canadian Horticulturist, vol.25, no.4, April 1902, page 135

  
  

• Notes

  December 11, 2003 Linda Jeffery speaks in the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO (exerpt) From the 1800s until the 1970s, roses, tulips, orchids, violets, daffodils, carnations and chrysanthemums made Brampton famous around the world. We were dubbed the Flowertown of Canada. We were once home to dozens of acres of greenhouses, and at their peak in the 1950s we produced more than 20 million blooms a year. Today there's very little left of Flowertown. In fact, there are just some small retailers that are left from that proud heritage. It had its start in the small market gardens of Edward Dale. He arrived in Brampton from England with his family and created a small dugout type greenhouse to raise produce. Like other market gardeners, Mr Dale would peddle his produce door to door. According to the family legend, his son was not interested in producing the produce; he was more interested in the flowers that were growing wild in the neighbourhood. With each vegetable order, he ensured his dad included a rose for the lady of the house. By the time they went into business together in 1869, Harry had developed a cut rose variety of roses that convinced his father to add flowers to his greenhouse. The enterprise grew rapidly, with roses exceeding the popularity and profitability of the vegetables. Soon the roses were being shipped all over North America and England. After the death of Sir John S. Macdonald in June 1891, as many as 800 roses were shipped to Ottawa and Montreal from the Dale greenhouses. By 1915, 3.75 acres had become 25 acres, with over 1.25 million square feet of glass, making Dale the largest employer in Brampton. Looking for ways to expand the estate, Duggan visited England, where he examined similar industries. He was inspired by what he saw, and by the mid-1930s the Dale estate owned and operated 250 acres, employing more than 350 workers, with 132 greenhouses and approximately 1.5 million square feet of glass covering 40 acres of the estate. You don't see that now; that history is gone. Although the flower market in England was larger, the Dale estate's became the largest under glass, encased in greenhouses. Following the war, Brampton's Flowertown began to feel the effects of a massive population boom, reliable air travel and skyrocketing oil prices. The demand for land increased, and nearby businesses soon were offering higher wages. An increasingly fast world, where air travel was more reliable and flowers could be more cheaply shipped from South America, also left Flowertown behind. In 1961, there were 61 flower growers in the Brampton area. In December 1974, there were 13. In an attempt to revive the flower spirit, the city, the Dales and other local businesses sponsored Brampton's first Flower Festival in 1963, including a parade and a concert band in our Gage Park. The festival, renamed in 1981 as the Pine and Rose Festival, ran for 26 years before the board of directors disbanded in 1988 over financial difficulties. You can't understand where you're going if you don't know your past.