MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES
My father, Dr. George Blair Hutchinson Rose was born
The Reverend Rose was asked to go to Elora, Ont.,
When the youngest, Blair Rose, graduated from
While at Muskoka he saw an advertisement in
Dr. Rose went to Taber in 1918 from Coalhurst
in Elora, Ontario on February 14, 1888. His father was
a Methodist Minister, and had been Dean of the
Presbytry at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
when he received an offer to go to Toronto to be
Pastor at the Bloor Street Methodist Church, which
was due to open in the fall of 1887. He moved his
wife and five children to Toronto in April of 1887 to
watch the completion of his new church and be
settled in, ready for the opening. It happend that
there were strikes in those days too, and the men
at the Stone Quarry which was supplying the granite
for both Bloor Street church and the new T. Eaton Co.
store also being built, were striking for higher wages
so the opening of the church was delayed.
a small hamlet near Toronto to fill in for a Minister
who was seriously ill. He did this and was residing
there when my father was born. That same year,
the Reverend Wm. Rose contracted typhoid fever
and died leaving his young widow with six children
- the oldest being eight, to raise on a minister's pension.
The church does educate its legacy however. so
all his six children were able to go to University
for Normal school or in training so they suffered
no hardships that way.
Toronto University in the spring of 1912, he was
able to get a practice at a T. B. Sanatarium in
the Muskoka Lakes area of Ontario where he
also looked after the men of a nearby lumber camp.
the Toronto Paper for a young doctor to go as
a Locum to a small mining town in Alberta,
Diamond City. Dr. D'Arc the resident doctor
there was taking a leave of absence to go to
England and further his studies form six months.
Dr. Rose was accepted as the locum and when
Dr. D'Arc returned from England he found the
neighboring town of Coalhurst was a reality
and a new mine was opening there. He asked
Dr. Rose to stay on as a partner which he
gladly accepted. When the mine opened the
miners wanted the doctor to be resident in their
town so Dr. Rose moved to Coalhurst in 1914.
He lived in a batch with Joe DeHart, the mine
manager and Jake McLeod. Soon they were
joined by another doctor as the load was too
heavy for one man and Dr. Inkrote came to help
out. Dr Rose remained in Coalhurst till 1918.
During this time he had married one of the
young ladies from a nearby ranch Alice Davis
and they had two girls.
and from there to Hillcrest, Alberta in the Crowsnest
Pass - another mining community. He remained in
Hillcrest until 1939 when that mine closed down at
which time he moved to Claresholm, Alberta to set
up another practice. He remained in Claresholm until
his death in 1963.
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