Angus Glen Community Centre

*This review is for the pool. *
I’ve been at this pool so many times throughout the years that I’ve been living around this community, and I think its been a long awaited review that has been delayed for some time from me to make.
To begin with is that the pool never used to be like this but over the years of new staff and management that roll in and out of that department it has drastically gone downhill… I mainly go for only lane swim and I must say that its overally crowed every time I go.
Even though they set up the 3 lane speeds no one follows the speeds. In the fast lane everyone goes slow which causes a disruption in swim flow amongst all the swimmers who are actually swimming the speed, as well some swimmers do not swim all the way to the other side and they just turn around half way and cut off others who are swimming. And half of the swimmers are just hanging out at the shallow end taking up all the space… If your not going to swim please go over to the splash pool or to another lane to allow other swimmers get by.
In addition the lifeguards are useless in notifying the swimmers who just ‘hang out’ in the shallow end to move or swim. Also they see that some swimmers are causing swim traffic in the lanes and causing other swimmers to not be able to swim around them they don’t advise or show any authority to the people there and allow the disruption to go on. Its very frustrating to swim in this pool and the lack of attention from the lifeguards to set the rules is almost non existent.
I do not go to this community centre to swim anymore due to the poor setup of lane swim and how the lifeguards there are not doing there job in controlling swim traffic. (I was a lifeguard myself at one point so I know the rules of a lane swim).
Upper management should definitely take a look into the lifeguarding staff during lane swim to recognize the lack of attention they provide to some swimmers.

**** This review is for the pool only ****
Living in this area for many years now, and when this community center opened its doors to the public years ago. It was nice, pretty and clean… now its so ruined… sighs…
The pool quality has gone down ridiculously. Going for lane swim was always my favorite because lane swim is suppose to mean swimming in lanes and not have people blocking the way like recreational swim. Anyways, this is upsetting…
The price is the same as all community centre around but it seems that the management team is not in during the weekends so it is quite chaotic… I think they allowed alot of people to enter and didn’t keep track of it.
3 lanes, slow, medium and fast… I really dislike the fact that people who are clearly swimming medium pace move to the fast lane and block others… thats really irritating…
I told the lifeguards a few times to move the people back into the medium lane and slow lane but it didnt really happen… people just stood at the sides chatting away… seriously, go chat at the coffee shop or something… why do you have to chat in the pool?
I dislike coming here to swim… no exceptions…

This community centre is the largest in Markham and handles many recreational activities for kids and adults.
I’ve played hockey in their ice rinks for the Unionville team, the rinks are large, amazing and taken care of. The rare quality of this rink is the amount of changing rooms, enough to fit over 200 people — I guess this assumes the full capacity of both rinks at 400.
There are events scheduled in the Town of Markham magazines and the facility includes a full sized gym, swimming pool, library and office spaces. In addition, there is a games room for kids to have time away from their parents and play with others kids. This games room includes a ping pong table, pool table, cards, gaming consoles and Foosball.
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Angus Glen CC is the biggest Community Centre in the area!
Here you can find a library, swimming pool, skating rink and a Multi use gymnastic area for badminton, tennis, basketballs and other activities.
Upstairs they also have a sizable activity room that uses for exercise classes and you can even rent out for banquets and other functions. It does have a nice view of a green area.
Senior club has ping pong, line dancing and cards games for neighbourhood’s senior to get together and have a social active life!
BTW, you able to have free wifi access in the building from the signal from the library!

Played hockey here tonight and was very impressed with the arena. The dressing rooms are large and kept really clean. Even the toilets were clean which I find to be a rarity these days.
Theice was well maintained and the benches were not crowded like some other arenas. The benches were also covered in plastic so that you could get a good push jumping over the bench wall.
Lots of parking available in the surrounding lot. Didn’t explore the entire facility, but I’m guessing the typical concessions are available. As well I noticed a sizeable viewing area in between the rinks we didn’t play on.