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The Friends continue to be fortunate in attracting able people to our board who bring strength and important talents to the challenges of our work. At our annual meeting on June 19 Antoine Belaieff and Margaret (Meg) Graham were elected as directors along with others who were standing for re-election. At a meeting of the board on September 18 Michael Moir was appointed to serve as a director until the annual meeting in 2009. Bret Snider, a director of many years standing, retired in June and was thanked warmly at the annual meeting, particularly for his service on the Nominations Committee and with the fledgling Fort York Foundation. Antoine Belaieff came from Switzerland in 1993 to attend McGill University where he obtained his Bachelor of Commerce. His education continued with a Master of Science in Planning at the U of T, and a Master of Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. Along the way his interests came to be focused on improving sustainability and in the interfaces between land use, transportation, energy, and social needs. As a planner, he has worked with Brook McIlroy Planning and Urban Design prior to joining Metrolinx, the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority, as a Senior Planning and Policy Advisor.
January. As the editor of The Weekly Register of Baltimore reported, the scalp was seen as ‘truly symbolical of the British power in Canada.’ ‘It is fact, horrible fact,’ ‘the newspaper later alleged, ‘that the legislature of “unoffending Canada” did sanction (by hanging up in their hall, in evidence of their authority; a human scalp) the murders of our people by the savages.’ Even though such claims were refuted as ‘false and ridiculous’ by the likes of the Reverend John Strachan and others, they endured and were used to justify the destruction of the Parliament Buildings.
Meg Graham holds degrees from the University of Waterloo (B.E.S and B.Arch) and Harvard (M.Des.S.). She began her architectural internship at KPMB Architects in Toronto before joining superkul inc | architect as a principal in 2005. Among their projects are the headquarters of St. Joseph Media, Fielding Winery in Niagara, a number of single family homes, and the Junior Academy (a private school) on Bayview Avenue. Meg teaches design at the U of T’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. She has also sat on the Mayor’s Roundtable on a Beautiful City, where she was a member of two subcommittees–one focused on creating green development standards for the city, the other on city practices and standards, including the implementation of design review in Toronto; currently she sits on the Harbourfront Centre’s Architecture Space advisory committee.
Michael Moir is University Archivist and head of the Archives Special Collections at York University. Before that he and served for six years as Archivist for the City of Toronto, three as manager of Archives and Outreach for Metro, and ten as archivist for the Toronto Harbour Commissioners. A Guelph MA graduate in History, Michael has written broadly about archives and the City’s past. More recently he has taught in the Master’s program at the Faculty of Information, U of T. From 2004-06 he was a member of the Casa Loma Advisory Committee established by City Council to advise on that site’s restoration and operation. Currently, he is the Pipe Major of the Pipes and Drums of the 25 (Toronto) Service Battalion, bringing to that post almost thirty years experience as a piper in the band of the 48th Highlanders of Canada.
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