Henry Dale

1851 - 1900  (~ 49 years)

• Name	Henry Dale
  Residence	1851	Dorking, Surrey, England
  	2 months old.
  Born	Jan 1851	Dorking, Surrey, England
  Christened	9 Feb 1851
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1861	Dorking, Surrey, England
  	He's a scholar.
  Residence	1871	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Residence	1881	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  	He's a gardener.
  Residence	1891	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Died	15 Jul 1900	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  	blood poisoning after a tooth was removed
  Buried	Brampton Cemetery, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I95	Brydon family tree
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Edward D. Dale,   b. 10 Oct 1827, Dorking, Surrey, England ,   d. 16 Mar 1909, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Sarah Elizabeth Warren,   b. 19 Dec 1831, Charlwood, Surrey, England ,   d. 13 Sep 1924, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 92 years)
  Married	18 Sep 1850	Charlwood, Surrey, England
  Albums		Dale Family (22)
  Family ID	F65	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Jane Young,   b. 1 Apr 1858, Ireland ,   d. 3 Jan 1900, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 41 years)
  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. 3 Nov 1944, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 65 years) + 2. Sarah Jane Dale,   b. 18 Jan 1881, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 29 Jun 1968  (Age 87 years)   3. Susan Dale,   b. 30 Mar 1883, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Apr 1888, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 5 years)   4. Edward Henry Dale,   b. 7 Sep 1885, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 22 Dec 1918, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 33 years) + 5. Kate Dale,   b. 9 Nov 1887, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 19 May 1938, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 50 years) + 6. Fan Dale,   b. 9 Nov 1887, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Dec 1918, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 31 years) + 7. Ethel Dale,   b. 17 Mar 1893, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 Apr 1943, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 50 years)
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2019
  Family ID	F34	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Residence - 1851 - Dorking, Surrey, England Born - Jan 1851 - Dorking, Surrey, England Residence - 1861 - Dorking, Surrey, England Residence - 1871 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Married - 21 Mar 1878 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Residence - 1881 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Residence - 1891 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Died - 15 Jul 1900 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Buried - - Brampton Cemetery, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Henry Dale from The Canadian Horticulturist, vol.25, no.4, April 1902, page 135

  
  

  Census

  Dale family in Brampton 1891 census

  
  

  Newspapers

  "Canadian Roses Winners" "...the citizens of Brampton are today greatly elated over the success of the H. Dale Estate exhibit of roses..."

  
  

• 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. --------------------------------- He used the nickname Harry.