While the final stage of annexation takes pace next week, the city leaves a lasting legacy of impressive urban development, a remarkable parks system and good government. Rockcliffe Park Rockcliffe Park was not always known for its multimillion-dollar mansions. Not long ago, it was a rural village of empty fields and wooden enclaves where the police force totalled one officer and delivery people were the grocery store. The wheeling and dealing of politicians in Toronto and Ottawa has done little to change the daily comings and goings of the people of Edwards. Osgoode Township Surveys in the late 1700s deemed it to be an 'impenetrable swamp, not suitable for habitation,' but the first settlers of Osgoode Township proved otherwise.
Residents now face a new challenge in joining the new city.