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The Friends are pleased to welcome Wayne Reeves to the position of Chief Curator, Museum Services of the City of Toronto. A graduate in historical geography from the University of Victoria and the University of Toronto, he joined Metro Planning in 1993 as a project co-ordinator. Since 2001 he has led policy and research projects for Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation. His 2001 report “Cultural Heritage Landscapes: A Backgrounder, with Implications and Potential Directions for Toronto” has been influential in assisting City departments to incorporate heritage into their work. Over the past five years he has prepared historical studies for the Lake Ontario Park Master Plan and the Western Waterfront Master Plan, and provided input to the Toronto Island Heritage Study. To document a decade of restoration activity, Wayne is now updating the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant heritage inventory he prepared for Toronto Water in 1997. He frequently donates his time to deliver heritage walks and talks to organizations like Lost Rivers, Riversides and the Toronto Field Naturalists. For the Market Gallery he guestcurated Playing by the Rules which is now mounted on the City’s website. The findings of his Ph.D. research on the history of land use and infrastructure planning was published as Visions for the Metropolitan Toronto Waterfront by the Centre for Urban & Community Studies, University of Toronto in 1992-3. Over the past decade Wayne’s publications have all focused on Toronto history. He examined changing approaches to protecting natural areas in Special Places: The Past, Present and Future of the Ecosystems of the Toronto Region, and proposed a framework for local environmental history in GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto. Last year, he co-edited and contributed three essays to HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets for Coach House Books. His most recent essay, a 200-year sketch of craft beer and brewing in Toronto, appeared last month in The Edible City: Toronto’s Food from Farm to Fork. Wayne Reeves took up his new position on December 14.
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