Editing Dan Heap (section)

==Later life==
Despite retiring from politics, Heap remained involved as an activist, strongly backing the anti-war movement, and supporting NDP candidates in the region. He also remained involved at the downtown [[Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto|Church of the Holy Trinity]] and social justice issues within the Anglican Church of Canada. In retirement, he preferred to go by the name "Don Heap", which he used before entering electoral politics in 1968.

In the late 1980s, he and his wife Alice sold their family home in Toronto's [[Kensington Market]] area at a fraction of the market price to the ''Homes First Society'', a community organization which provides housing for refugees.<ref name=titan/><ref name=obit/> The house had been a nexus for meetings and organizing among student activists around the anti-war, anti-apartheid and social housing movements from the 1960s to the 1980s with as many as a dozen young people staying with the Heap family at one time.<ref name=alice/>

In his late seventies and early eighties he remained involved in various issues such as refugee rights. Heap co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee to campaign on the issue of homelessness.<ref name=titan>{{cite news |last=Monsebraaten |first=Louise |title=He was a titan of Toronto social justice. Now he's sick and needs a home |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/article/1069850 |accessdate=October 15, 2011 |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=October 15, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Homeless activists demand Pitfield resign from committee |newspaper=Etobicoke Guardian |date=May 16, 2006}}</ref>

Heap suffered a [[heart attack]] in 2005 and was also diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]] in 2006. In 2011, he and his wife faced eviction from their retirement home as they awaited admission to a long-term care facility, for which they had been on a waiting list for five years. In October 2011, Heap was admitted to the Kensington Gardens facility and his wife Alice got a spot there later that month.<ref name=titan/> Alice Heap, his wife of 61 years, died due to complications from [[pneumonia]] on March 24, 2012, at the age of 86.<ref name=alice>{{cite news |last=Monsebraaten |first=Laurie |title=Activist Alice Heap lived final days in peace |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/article/1151783 |accessdate=March 26, 2012 |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=March 25, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Casey |first=Liam |title=Toronto social justice crusader Alice Heap dies |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/article/1151621 |accessdate=March 25, 2012 |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=March 24, 2012}}</ref>

Heap died on April 25, 2014.<ref name=obit/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/former-ndp-mp-social-justice-advocate-dan-heap-dies-at-88-1.1793882 |title=Former NDP MP, social justice advocate Dan Heap dies at 88 |date=April 26, 2014}}</ref> One of his sons posted a message remembering him as an "advocate of the homeless, for refugees and for peace [among other causes]" and also as a "Pacifist, socialist, worker-priest, marxist Anglican, trade-unionist, city councillor, member of parliament, civilly disobedient marcher for human rights. Wearer of red shirts, cyclist, paddler of canoes, singer of songs."<ref name=cbcobit/>