Bathurst Manor | |
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 View of Bathurst Manor fromSheppard West station | |
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  Bathurst Manor Location in Toronto | |
| Coordinates:43°45′46″N79°27′25″W / 43.76278°N 79.45694°W /43.76278; -79.45694 | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Ontario |
| City | Toronto |
| Municipality established | 1850York Township |
| Changed municipality | 1922North York from York Township |
| Changed municipality | 1998Toronto from North York |
| Government | |
| • Toronto City Council | James Pasternak (Ward 6 York Centre) |
| • MPs | Ya'ara Saks |
| • MPPs | Michael Kerzner |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 14,945 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code | M3H |
| Area codes | 416, 647 |
Bathurst Manor is a neighbourhood ofToronto,Ontario, Canada, located in northern Toronto in the former suburb ofNorth York. It sits on aplateau bounded on the north byFinch Avenue West, on the west byDufferin Street, on the east by theDon River (west branch), and on the south bySheppard Avenue West. The area is also regarded as part of the Downsview postal area as designated byCanada Post. It is part of the former city of North York, which merged with five other municipalities and a regional government to form the new "City of Toronto" in 1998. It is part of the federal and provincial electoral districtYork Centre, and Toronto electoralward 10: York Centre (East). In 2006, it had a population of 14,615.[1]
Bathurst Manor is one of several Jewish-populated neighbourhoods onBathurst Street. It is a suburban community built between 1954 and the early 1960s. While most of the population was originally Jewish, and severalsynagogue congregations are located in the neighbourhood, there are also significant Italian, Russian and Filipino populations.[citation needed]
In 1996, theToronto Transit Commission extendedsubway service to the area with the opening of theSheppard West station, atAllen Road and Sheppard Avenue, allowing a thirty-minute train ride toUnion Station at the southern cusp of downtown Toronto.
Thecommunity is home to the Canadian headquarters ofB'nai Brith at 15 Hove St, theBathurst Jewish Community Centre (BJCC), the Lipa Green Building at 4588 Bathurst St is for Jewish Community Services. Bathurst Manor's Top tenethnic andcultural groups (byancestry) in 2016:[2]
The percentage of population below thepoverty line dropped from 22% (in 1996) to 18% (in 2001).[1]
TheToronto District School Board (TDSB) is an Englishfirst languagepublicsecularschool board that operates several schools in the neighbourhood.:
Three other public school boards also provide schooling to applicable students in Bathurst Manor, theConseil scolaire Viamonde (CSV),Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir (CSCM), and theToronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB). CSV is a Frenchfirst language secular school board, whereas CSCM and TCDSB are publicseparate school boards, the former being a French first language school board, the latter being an English first language school board. Neither CSCM, CSV, and TCDSB operates a school in Bathurst Manor, with their students attending schools situated in other neighbourhoods in Toronto.
The publicpost-secondary institution, theUniversity of Toronto, also operates theInstitute for Aerospace Studies in the northern portions of the neighbourhood.
Bathurst Manor is part of the Federal and Provincial riding of York Centre, represented by M.P.Ya'ara Saks and M.P.P.Michael Kerzner, the former being a member of theLiberal Party of Canada and the latter being a member of theProgressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Municipally, the constituency is also known as Ward 6, which is represented by CouncillorJames Pasternak.
Bathurst Manor is located within 32Division of theToronto Police Service and is most often serviced byStation 143 of theToronto Fire Services.
Several municipal parks are located in the Bathurst Manor including Garthdale Park, G. Ross Lord Park, Irving W. Chapley Park, and Maxwell Park, and the West Don Parklands. Municipal parks in Toronto are managed by theToronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division. Several municipal parks in the neighbourhood are situated near theDon Valley, which forms a part of theToronto ravine system.
The Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division also manages the Irving W. Chapley Community Centre (named after a local alderman) is located in Irving W. Chapley Park. Thiscommunity centre features a tot's play area, meeting rooms and an outdoor pool and water play area. In addition to Irving W. Chaley Community Centre, the neighbourhood is also home to theProsserman Jewish Community Centre (PJCC). PJCC is a multi purpose facility with cardiovascular conditioning equipment, indoor and outdoor pools, indoor and outdoor track, and tennis and basketball courts. This centre is also the home of the Leah Posluns Theatre and formerly theKoffler Gallery when the site was known as the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre.
Skiing was popular during the 1950s at a ski hill located adjacent to what is now Blue Forest Drive. In the summer of 1956, the valley below the ski hill was the site of Bathurst Manor Day Camp, later Forest Valley Day Camp, and now a part of the Forest Valley Outdoor Education Centre. At its peak, it was the largest privately owned summer day camp in Canada, with over 900 campers, and operated through 1993. In 1973 the grade ten students from Downsview Secondary School built a suspension bridge across the ravine as part of their workshop experience. The bridge was dismantled some years later when it was considered an insurance liability. Beginning in 1998, Camp NAORCA summer camp operated by Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division moved here from its previous location atSeneca College, King Campus, and theToronto District School Board uses this space during the school year to educate 21,000 students per year.
Several works from the collection of theKoffler Centre of the Arts was housed at the BJCC's Koffler Gallery but now moved to their new home downtown at Artscape Youngplace. The centre also provided visual arts studios, music and dance schools, and the Leah Posluns Theatre which was then a 444-seat facility offering opera, theatre, dance, music and other cultural events. The Jewish Book Fair is held at the Centre annually.
Much ofDavid Bezmozgis's 2004 short story collectionNatasha and Other Stories takes place in the general vicinity of the Bathurst Manor in the late 1980s. In one story, "Roman Berman - Massage Therapist", the title character takes an office in the medical building at Bathurst Manor Plaza, which is still standing and in use. Bezmozgis's narrator refers to the plaza as "Sunnybrook Plaza", after its anchor store at the time. AuthorStuart Ross, who grew up in Bathurst Manor, set most of his 2011 novel,Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew (ECW Press), in Bathurst Manor. The book centres on the fictional assassination of a neo-Nazi in Bathurst Manor Plaza. References are made to many streets in Bathurst Manor, as well as stores in the plaza.
The majorstrip mall, Sheppard Plaza, is located at the intersection of Sheppard Avenue and Bathurst Street.
There was also a smaller Bathurst Manor Plaza shopping centre at the intersection of Wilmington and Overbrook.
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