NEIGHBOURHOODS Bathurst Manor

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Elementary Schools Secondary Schools

Dublin Heights Elementary & Middle School Fisherville Jr High School 100 Bainbridge Ave 425 Patricia Ave 416-395-2360 416-395-3030 [email protected] fi [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/dublinheights http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/fi sherville/

St Robert School Northview Heights Secondary School 70 Bainbridge Ave 550 Finch Ave W 416-393-5297 416-395-3290 [email protected] Faywood Arts-Based Curriculum School http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/northviewheights/index. 95 Faywood Blvd html 416-395-2390 [email protected] Drewry Secondary School http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/faywood 70 Drewry Ave 416-395-3260 St Edward School [email protected] 21 Eddfi eld Ave http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/drewry/ 416-393-5255 Secondary School Charles H Best Middle School 155 Hilda Ave 285 Wilmington Ave 416-395-3280 416-395-2170 [email protected] [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/chbest/ Earl Haig Secondary School 100 Princess Ave Willmington Elementary School 416-395-3210 330 Wilmington Ave [email protected] 416-395-2180 http://www.earlhaig.ca/ [email protected] http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/wilmington Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts School 36 Greenfi eld Ave Cameron School 416-393-5556 211 Cameron Ave 416-395-2140 Avondale Alternative School & Avondale Public [email protected] School http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/cameron/ 171 Avondale Ave 416-395-3130 [email protected] BATHURST MANOR Overview

Avg. Household Income: $59,242.00 Percent of Immigrants: 57.36% Provincial Average: $66,836.00 Provincial Average: 26.85%

Average Number of Kids: 1.2 Percent of Low Income: 23.20% Provincial Average: 1.2 Provincial Average: 14.40%

Average Home Price: $437,237.00 Average Property Taxes: $3,171.00 Average # of Bedrooms: 3 Common Housing Type: Detached Common House Style: Bungalow Housing People Home Ownership: Rented Population Age: 60+ Period of Construction: 1946-1960, 1961-1970 Marital Status: Married Work Life Mode of Transportation: Car, Public Transportation Occupation: Sales & Services; Business, Finance & Admin; Trades Transport & Equip

Source: Demographic information comes from data in the 2000 Canadian Census. Demographic information for this neighbourhood is based on data for the - York-Centre Federal Electoral District. Neighbourhood boundaries may differ from those of Federal Electoral Districts.

% of Homes by Bedrooms - Bathurst Manor % of Homes by House Style - Bathurst Manor

60 19% 0% 50 Apartment 2-Storey 19% 40 21% 2 1/2 Storey Other Percent 30 Bungalow 20

10 41% 0 1 Br 2 Br 3 Br 4 Br 5+ Br

Percent of Homes by Price Sold - Bathurst Manor

Percent of Homes by Houing Type - Bathurst Manor

40 72.6%

30 Detached 20 Condo Apt 10 Co-op Apt S1 Att/Row/Twnhouse 0 20.8% Under $250K- $350K- $500K- $750K-1M Over 1M Other $250K $350K $500K $750K 6.6%

*Source: Toronto Real Estate Board BATHURST MANOR Description

Bathurst Manor is a neighbourhood in north- College, King Campus. central Toronto, Ontario, . Located in the electoral district of York Centre, it sits The community is home for the Canadian on a plateau created by the , and is headquarters of B’nai Brith, the Bathurst Jewish bounded by Dufferin St. and the Community Centre, and the Lipa Green Building to the west, and follows the Don River (west for Jewish Community Services. branch) primarily south-east, from to . It is central to a number of In 1997, the Toronto Transit Commission neighborhoods that straddle the heavily Jewish- extended subway service to the area with the populated Bathurst Street corridor. opening of the Station, at Allen Road and Sheppard Avenue, allowing an effi cient thirty It is a suburban community of bungalows and minute train to (Toronto) at the side-split single-family homes built in the late southern cusp of . 1950s to early 1960s. Most of the population was originally Jewish, and several sizeable synagogue The area is also regarded as part of the congregations are located in the neighbourhood. Downsview postal area as designated by Canada In the last twenty years, there has also been Post. It is part of the former City of , a substantial infl ux of Italian families into the which merged with fi ve other municipalities and neighbourhood; and lately, a signifi cant Filipino a regional government to form the new “City of population has emerged. Toronto” in 1998.

Skiing was popular during the 1950s at a ski hill located adjacent to what is now Blue Forest Drive. The valley below, now a part of the Forest Valley Outdoor Education Centre, was the site of Bathurst Manor Day Camp (which later changed its name to Forest Valley Day Camp), beginning in the summer of 1956. At its peak, it was the largest privately owned summer daycamp in Canada (with over 900 campers), and operated through 1993. This space, which the Toronto District School Board uses during the school-year to educate upwards of 21,000 students per year, once again plays host to a summer camp, as, beginning in 1998, the Toronto Parks and Recreation-operated Camp NAORCA moved there from its previous location at Seneca

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