This was posted to Facebook by William Jossa. I lived most of my younger life in what was Port Union, or the West Rouge community.

Yes, most of the fertile land encompassing West Rouge proper was used for agriculture. Crops, orchards and a bit of mix-farming (with livestock) was commonplace.

While most of the undeveloped property in the “Rouge Hills” portion of West Rouge was owned by the C. White Company since the 1920’s; it would only make sense that they would lease out productive land to farmers, prior to redevelopment.

I’ve attached a sepia photograph of West Rouge (from the winter of 1956) where you can see the worked farmland. I also placed six markers of interest for your consideration.