A Little Roseland Farm

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• I have that school a bit differently. Unless I have this turned around the indicated school seems at the corner of Talbot/highway 3 and either Outer Drive (as Boulevard) or some unbuilt road that would now be the 401 alignment(?)... with 5th Conc as North Talbot and 4th Conc as Cabana (that last one I think is right). I remember reading that Howard and Cabana was once called Jackson's Corners.

• Jim, that's certainly possible. I was just going with Roseland being around the current Roseland. I might have messed this one up.

• On review, it looks like the fifth conc. is North Talbot. The section to the left of Howard is under Roseland Golf Course...

  My map from 1930 doesn't show a road for the boulevard...

• I love the sales pitch re: channeling your son's potentially "immoral" energies into hobby farming. Guess even back then it was a struggle to get those twenty-something sons out of their parents' basements, eh?

• I can't believe the asking prices for the farms back then Andrew would the boulevard be cabana maybe it kind of looks like it could be no on 2nd thought it wouldn't be because the highway doesn't cross cabana

• Andrew, I think you are correct. What is the 5th Conc is North Talbot. Also, if I recall correctly I think I read in a booklet about the history of Oldcastle area, a school existed in the area of where Greenlawn Memorial Gardens now exists. Needs more research...
  I believe this older map ( http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/CountyAtlas/images/maps/townshipmaps/ess-m-Sandwich-E&W.jpg )indicates a school as shown in the advertisement.
  Also, I am surprised that the phone number is the "Seneca" exchange and not "Clearwater" since the location is the Heintzman Building (London (University) at Ouellette).

• Jackson's Corners must be like Fairplay, a hamlet that developed after 1880.
  On the atlas of 1880, there is no mention of quite a few places in the county.
  Odd. I guess a lot came after 1880 and didn't last long at at all.

• I believe Andrew is correct with his assessment. Jackson's Corners is likely at the intersection of Howard and Cabana (Fourth Conc). Fairplay was much further east. The Fifth Conc is likely North Talbot. The roads indicated with dotted lines were projections and likely never built. I believe there was a school as indicated which would have been on Talbot Road (Hwy 3) in the vicinity of Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. I recall reading this in a booklet about the history of Oldcastle and area. This map shows a school ( http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/CountyAtlas/images/maps/townshipmaps/ess-m-Sandwich-E&W.jpg ).
  I also noticed that the phone number is "Seneca". I would have thought that this location (Heintzman Building at University (London) and Ouellette) would have been "Clearwater".

• Posted some of this earlier but it did not appear.
  I believe Andrew is correct with his assessment. Jackson's Corners is likely at the intersection of Howard and Cabana (Fourth Conc). Fairplay was much further east. The Fifth Conc is likely North Talbot. The roads indicated with dotted lines were projections and likely never built. I believe there was a school as indicated which would have been on Talbot Road (Hwy 3) in the vicinity of Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. I recall reading this in a booklet about the history of Oldcastle and area. I also noticed that the phone number is "Seneca". I would have thought that this location (Heintzman Building at University (London) and Ouellette) would have been "Clearwater".

• There was a small school on Outer Drive just south of #3 HWy. In fact, when it closed, it was converted to a business and was there before all the construction and may still be. When Sandwich South, East and West were amalgamated with Windsor and other small towns , there were a lot of small grade schools that were subsequently closed.