Jamie MacLean-Bechard owned the Bay & Gable at 455 Ontario Street with her husband Rob from 2009 through to 2017. During this time, she sat on the HCD Advisory Committee and later chaired the committee from 2014 – 2017. She was instrumental in the assembly of the Cabbagetown South-West HCD, which was under study with the City upon her departure. She also organized the HCD booth at the Cabbagetown Festival and raised the profile of the committee as a resource to the community. She assisted with the migration of the website to its current format and worked diligently to develop the Property Search Compendium.

Jamie was raised in the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, a small town north of the city admired for its stately Victorian lined main street and charming small town appeal. These rural roots and many summers spent at her grandparents’ working farms, made it easy for her to quickly fall in love with the allure of Cabbagetown and the delightful Riverdale Farm. Cabbagetown represented the best of both worlds for her; hometown charm in the heart of the city.

After extensive restoration and renovations to their Ontario Street home, they decided to move their young family back to Stouffville to raise them with the support of family. Her dedication to heritage preservation and her marketing expertise will be greatly missed.

Jim Muldoon moved to Cabbagetown in 2008 from Lake Forest, Illinois, on the North Shore outside of Chicago. He is Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University, Newark, and a scholar of international affairs with research interests in multilateral diplomacy, international organizations, and global governance. His publications include The Architecture of Global Governance: An Introduction to the Study of International Organizations (Westview Press, 2003) and Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations Today, Second Edition (Westview Press, 2005) and he is working on a new textbook – The New Dynamics of Multilateralism – from his Cabbagetown townhouse on Aberdeen Ave.

Margaret McBurney is a designer and social and architectural historian who has, with Mary Byers, published six books, including Tavern in the Town: Early Inns and Taverns of Ontario and The Governor’s Road: Early Buildings and Families from Mississauga to London. They have also published numerous articles in The Globe and Mail, Leisure Ways, Ontario Living, and Century Home. McBurney is also editor of the Ontario Heritage Connection’s website. She served as president of the Arts and Letters Club from 1998 to 2000 and lives in Toronto.

Rick Hall is Toronto born and bred, and moved to Cabbagetown in 2003, after long admiring its pretty streets and human scale. He has a Ph.D. in communications and government policy/regulatory making process, and owns RICK HALL PR, which provides PR and a wide-range of communications services to the high-tech, financial and professional services sectors. He acquired his love for old homes and buildings when living in a Grade-II listed house in London UK, while on secondment from the Canadian federal government.

Rollo Myers has lived in Cabbagetown since 1970 and has renovated three historic houses, receiving the Toronto Historical Board’s Award of Merit. He is Manager of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, and has just ended his second (and maximum) term as the Heritage Canada Foundation’s Governor for Ontario. Rollo was awarded the Jane Jacob’s Prize for his efforts to restore the site of the Upper Canada’s First Parliament Buildings to public ownership. Appointed by Toronto City Council to the Task Force to Bring Back the Don, the Toronto Historical Board, and The War of 1812 Commemoration Committee. Rollo is a founding member of the Friends of Fort York, the West Don Lands Committee and the Citizens for the Old Town.

Peggy Kurtin was a resident of Cabbagetown for over 25 years, and a president of the Cabbagetown Preservation Association. In 1995 Peggy started researching the heritage of Cabbagetown and founded the Advisory Committee. She met with many historical groups throughout Toronto to explain how to research their areas and lobby for designation. Peggy earned a Masters degree in Architectural History, and served with the Toronto Historical Association and the Ontario Conservation Board.