Item - 2019.CA8.4

Appointees' biographies:

Robert Allsopp

Robert has a wide range of involvement in voluntary local community associations and advisory committees and professional design review panels and design competition juries. He is a founding member of Friends of Fort York and current member of Presidents Circle, Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. He has over 50 years of volunteer and professional involvement in Civic issues.

Geoff Kettel

Geoff Kettel is a community connector and advocate for “making places better”, through active involvement in land use planning, heritage preservation, active transportation, and community development.  He is currently Co-President of the Leaside Property Owners’ Association, Co-Chair of the Federation of North Toronto Residents‘ Associations (FoNTRA),  Chair of the North York Community Preservation Panel, member of the Steering committee of Walk Toronto

Barbara McPhail

Professionally, I have 37 years of experience in the cultural heritage sector providing heritage expertise in the research, evaluation and designation of heritage property under the OHA; the application of the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Provincial Heritage Properties and the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada: and, in the preparation of heritage impact assessments. I am conversant in the City’s heritage issues and local history.

Loryssa Quattrociocchi

I hold a Master's degree in Art History & Visual Culture from the University of Guelph, with a specialization in architectural history, and I have held appointments at the University of Oxford, the University of Guelph, the Gardiner Museum, and Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK. I am presently a Heritage Conservation Assistant at Architectural Conservancy Ontario, a Heritage Consultant at Giaimo Architects, and a fourth-year D.Phil. in History student at the University of Oxford.

Julia Rady

Julia Rady, PhD completed her doctoral training in Canadian History at the University of Toronto in 2017. She parlayed her training into the heritage field and works as a historical consultant for Stevens Burgess Architects Ltd., and has contributed historical content to both Heritage Toronto's plaques program and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History's Oral History program. 

Sandra Shaul

Sandra Shaul has served on the Toronto Preservation Board since 2016, recently as vice-chair. From 2003-06 she served on the T&EY Community Preservation Panel, as well as on the board. In recent years, her passion for Toronto’s history and architectural heritage was expressed through her management of the citywide Bicentennial Commemoration of the War of 1812 and Toronto’s Great War Attic. She has been a director of The Annex Residents’ Association responsible for heritage since 2005.

Kim Storey

Kim Storey, OAA, B.Arch., FRAIC, is an architect and urban designer, whose firm Brown and Storey Architects Inc., is a multidisciplinary firm that has worked with a range of city public spaces, streetscapes, buildings and civic infrastructures, including original research of the Garrison Creek Ravine, Taddle Creek Ravine, Dundas Square, Massey Harris Park, St. George Street, and the West Toronto Railpath.

The Civic Appointments Committee recommends that:  

1.  City Council appoint the following candidates to the Toronto Preservation Board, at pleasure of Council, for a term office ending July 18, 2023, and until successors are appointed:

Robert Allsopp

Geoff Kettel

Barbara McPhail

Loryssa Quattrociocchi

Julia Rady

Sandra Shaul

Kim Storey

2. City Council direct that the balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 21, 2019) from the City Clerk remain confidential as it relates to personal information about identifiable individuals being considered for appointment to the Toronto Preservation Board.

Candidates' biographies:

Robert Allsopp

Robert has a wide range of involvement in voluntary local community associations and advisory committees and professional design review panels and design competition juries. He is a founding member of Friends of Fort York and current member of Presidents Circle, Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. He has over 50 years of volunteer and professional involvement in Civic issues.

Geoff Kettel

Geoff Kettel is a community connector and advocate for “making places better”, through active involvement in land use planning, heritage preservation, active transportation, and community development.  He is currently Co-President of the Leaside Property Owners’ Association, Co-Chair of the Federation of North Toronto Residents‘ Associations (FoNTRA),  Chair of the North York Community Preservation Panel, member of the Steering committee of Walk Toronto

Barbara McPhail

Professionally, I have 37 years of experience in the cultural heritage sector providing heritage expertise in the research, evaluation and designation of heritage property under the OHA; the application of the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Provincial Heritage Properties and the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada: and, in the preparation of heritage impact assessments. I am conversant in the City’s heritage issues and local history.

Loryssa Quattrociocchi

I hold a Master's degree in Art History & Visual Culture from the University of Guelph, with a specialization in architectural history, and I have held appointments at the University of Oxford, the University of Guelph, the Gardiner Museum, and Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK. I am presently a Heritage Conservation Assistant at Architectural Conservancy Ontario, a Heritage Consultant at Giaimo Architects, and a fourth-year D.Phil. in History student at the University of Oxford.

Julia Rady

Julia Rady, PhD completed her doctoral training in Canadian History at the University of Toronto in 2017. She parlayed her training into the heritage field and works as a historical consultant for Stevens Burgess Architects Ltd., and has contributed historical content to both Heritage Toronto's plaques program and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History's Oral History program. 

Sandra Shaul

Sandra Shaul has served on the Toronto Preservation Board since 2016, recently as vice-chair. From 2003-06 she served on the T&EY Community Preservation Panel, as well as on the board. In recent years, her passion for Toronto’s history and architectural heritage was expressed through her management of the citywide Bicentennial Commemoration of the War of 1812 and Toronto’s Great War Attic. She has been a director of The Annex Residents’ Association responsible for heritage since 2005.

Kim Storey

Kim Storey, OAA, B.Arch., FRAIC, is an architect and urban designer, whose firm Brown and Storey Architects Inc., is a multidisciplinary firm that has worked with a range of city public spaces, streetscapes, buildings and civic infrastructures, including original research of the Garrison Creek Ravine, Taddle Creek Ravine, Dundas Square, Massey Harris Park, St. George Street, and the West Toronto Railpath.

This report recommends the appointment of 7 public members to the Toronto Preservation Board for a four-year term of office.