How the Streets Got Their Names Opened in 1967, Hyde Park’s first side street was named after the village’s founders, Thomas and Elizabeth Routledge. Both born in 1763 in England, they were among the first settlers in the township, arriving in 1818, and owned several hundred acres of land on the northwest corner of the hamlet. It is surmised that they named the area after the park in their birth country. The couple had three daughters and six sons. Their eldest daughter Margaret was married in 1820 to Thomas Carling of the Carling Brewery. Descendants of the family resided in Hyde Park as late as 1967.
Historic Hyde Park
The 1895 Canadian Patent Office Record , reported that the Wire Tightener (pictured at left) was patented in September 1894 by George Dickie of Hyde Park. The Dickie family would continue to be influential citizens of Hyde Park for generations. Below is Kenneth Dickie, Chairman of the School Board, Mrs. Ralph Krueger, junior teacher, Mr. Ralph Krueger, Principal and Mr. Nethercott, vocational guidance director at SS#17 school in Hyde Park, 1949.
Grave marker of Hyde Park founders Thomas and Elizabeth Routledge, St. John’s Cemetery, Arva. (Photo courtesy George DeKay) Photo courtesy Ian Wood
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