Editing Bathurst Manor (section)

==Recreation==
[[File:West Don Parkland - panoramio.jpg|thumb|West Don Parkland is one of several municipal parks located around Bathurst Manor.]]
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 the [[Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division]]. Several municipal parks in the neighbourhood are situated near the [[Don River (Ontario)|Don Valley]], which forms a part of the [[Toronto 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. This [[community 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 the [[Bathurst Jewish Community Centre|Prosserman 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 the [[Koffler Centre of the Arts|Koffler 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 at [[Seneca College#King Campus|Seneca College, King Campus]], and the [[Toronto District School Board]] uses this space during the school year to educate 21,000 students per year.

===Arts===
Several works from the collection of the [[Koffler 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 of [[David Bezmozgis|David Bezmozgis's]] 2004 short story collection [[Natasha 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. Author [[Stuart Ross]], who grew up in Bathurst Manor, set most of his 2011 novel, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111101024706/http://www.ecwpress.com/books/snowball-dragonfly-jew 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.

===Retail===
The major [[strip 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.