 | Orin Krivel | President: Facilities Development Click here for bio |
 | Michael Guy | First Vice-President: Roundhouse Park Development Click here for bio |
 | Derek Boles | Historian Click here for bio |
 | Daniel Garcia | Treasurer Click here for bio |
 | Andrew Jeanes | Heritage Conservation and Membership Click here for bio |
 | Edward Levy | Second Vice-President & Secretary: Transportation Click here for bio |
 | Russell Milland | Electronic Media Click here for bio |
 | Jason Shron | Graphics and Communications Click here for bio |
 | Phil Spencer | Governance Click here for bio |
Bios
Orin Krivel
President: Facilities Development
Orin was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan to a family that emigrated from the United States and pioneered in the district around the turn of the 20th century. He received his primary and secondary education in Regina, Saskatchewan and his Bachelor of Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba at Winnipeg in 1967.
Orin was licensed to practice architecture and elected as member of the Alberta Association of Architects in 1969, with admission as a member of The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada the same year. His practice focused upon major commercial and institutional projects. In 1973 Orin ceased public practice and established a construction and development firm in Vancouver B.C.
He moved to Toronto in 1982 and has acted as consultant and project manager for developments across North America since then. Orin is currently the TRHA president and a member of the Public Advisory Group for the Revitalization of Union Station. He has an active interest in model railroading, as well as an extensive collection of Canadian Railway artifacts, drawings, and written material.
Michael Guy
First Vice-President: Roundhouse Park Development
Michael was born in the United Kingdom and came to Toronto with his parents in 1962. A Canadian citizen since 1975, he has actively pursued a career in the technical side of theatrical arts production.
While owning his own manufacturing company, Michael designed new computerized scenery automation systems for eight Broadway-style musicals on three continents and a camera automation system for a major American television studio. A keen yachtsman, Michael has skippered his schooner to the Bahama Islands and Newfoundland. On the latter trip he shot video footage later made into a successful episode of the Canadian "Cruising Under Sail" television series that has run in Ontario, the United Kingdom and Europe including a translation to Arabic for Saudi Arabia. With a lifelong interest in technical steam matters and as an amateur machinist, Michael designs and builds working miniature steam locomotives in his spare time.
Michael is a TRHA vice-president and his portfolio includes the development of a working live steam miniature railway in Roundhouse Park.
Edward Levy
Second Vice-President & Secretary: Transportation
Ed is a professional engineer and registered transportation consultant. He graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of Toronto in 1957 and has been associated with several well respected consulting firms in Canada and the United States for over 45 years. His specialties include traffic engineering, transportation planning and transportation policy advice tendered to government agencies and private sector clients across North America and in Europe and the Far East.
In 1997 he formally retired from BA Consulting Group Ltd. where he had served as President and Chairman for nearly 15 years. He continues to work with the firm as Senior Consultant and represents BA Group at the Toronto Board of Trade and other professional organizations.
Ed is a member of the Union Station Advisory Group and he has an extensive collection of antique toy and model trains, railway memorabilia and a comprehensive library and archive. Ed is currently a TRHA vice-president and his portfolio includes developing political contacts with all three levels of government.
Daniel Garcia
Treasurer
Dan was born in Toronto in 1980, and still resides there. His love of trains began at a young age: upon being released from hospital at the age of 2 after a long sickness, he was given two model railway cars by the staff.
He was schooled in Toronto as well. While he has enrolled in several financial and computer-based courses in post-secondary institutions, Dan has decided to pursue other options at this time. His interests have expanded in recent years from model trains to full-sized ones and to transit as well. He is also the owner and moderator of several large internet discussion groups including Jason Shron's Canadian Model Trains and Canadian Passenger Rail. He is also a major contributor to several Toronto-area transit websites and forums.
When not seen trackside or online, Dan can been seen on one of his fleet of bicycles, another of his many interests.
Derek Boles
Historian
Derek was born and raised in Montreal and, while in his teens, was an active volunteer at the Canadian Railway Museum. He was on the editorial staff of Canadian Rail magazine under the supervision of Omer Lavallee, and had his first article published there when he was 16. Following employment with the signal maintenance department of the Canadian Pacific Railway in B.C. and Alberta, Derek worked underground in the INCO mines of Sudbury where he unplugged blocked mine shafts with explosives.
Derek moved to Toronto in 1968 to study Radio & Television Arts at Ryerson. After a brief career in social work, he studied at Trent and Queen's University for his education degree. From 1972 until 1990, Derek supervised the outdoor education program at a private children's camp in New England. In 1978, he was one of the founding members of the Association for Media Literacy and served on the AML executive for 20 years. From 1993-1998, Derek was the editor of Mediacy, an internationally distributed magazine for media teachers.
Derek was an English department head at a Toronto area high school for several years and recently retired from teaching after 31 years.
He served as the second TRHA president and has published several articles on the history of Toronto railways. Derek's book "Toronto's Railway Heritage" was published by Arcadia in 2009.
Russell Milland
Electronic Media
Russ is a native-born Torontonian who spent a good part of his youth at the "Junction" in West Toronto patiently waiting for the steam trains to pass. While still in his teens, he developed a passion for computers. In 1967, Russ graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Toronto. After leading a major technology project for Ferranti-Packard Limited, he returned to U of T and graduated with a Master of Applied Science degree in advanced computer system technologies in 1971. Russ then joined Imperial Oil Limited where he worked for the next twenty years in computer, network and information systems technologies, eventually moving into senior management.
During these years, he expanded his expertise in the additional areas of organizational development, personal performance and business process optimization. In the past decade, Russ has applied his knowledge and skills to the challenges of the aerospace, health, transportation, insurance, telecommunications, online learning and computer-based simulations industries in companies such as Allied Signal Aerospace, Canada Life Assurance, Newmindsets and Group Telecom. In recent years, Russ has also become involved with the development and promotion of computer-based railroad simulation software as well as pursuing his passion for the construction and operation of miniature live steam locomotives.
Phil Spencer
Governance
Phil was born in Hamilton and moved with his family to Toronto when he was five. He has vivid memories of his trips by train from the TH&B Hunter Street Station to Toronto Union Station and it was at this time that Phil's life long love of transportation developed. His interest in railways was encouraged by a father who frequently took him to railway yards, roundhouses and streetcar barns.
Phil graduated from the fledgling York University when their undergraduate degrees were still being issued by the University of Toronto. He attended law school at Osgoode Hall and was called to the Bar in 1969. Phil was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1981. He practices law in downtown Toronto and is now a senior partner at Cassels Brock LLP in health law with an emphasis on pharmaceuticals and medical technology.
Phil collected pre-war and post-war Lionel toy trains for many years. His interest in Toronto railways has focused on urban transportation systems, particularly electric street railways and inter-city radials. Phil has built up and acquired an extensive collection of 125 hand built streetcars, interurbans, and city transit and highway coaches in O scale. Most of these represent the private companies and public utilities that operated in the early years of the 20th century.
Jason Shron
Graphics and Communications
Jason Shron has a BFA and MA in art history from York University. He has lectured on art and railway history at the Universities of Birmingham and Coventry in the UK, and at York University in Toronto.
In 2004, Jason left academia to start Rapido Trains Inc., a model railroad manufacturing business specializing in models of Canadian trains. Rapido Trains Inc. has become a highly respected model railroad manufacturer, its products found in hobby shops throughout North America.
Andrew Jeanes
Heritage Conservation and Membership
Andrew is currently working as a Technical/Education Heritage Advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Culture. He is also completing a master's degree in Canadian Studies at Ottawa's Carleton University. His thesis topic is the conserving of the setting of Canada's heritage railway stations.
Born and raised in Ottawa, Andrew's interest in railway history was first cultivated riding steam train excursions behind ex-CPR Pacific 1201. Along with his father David, Andrew has extensively studied the history of Ottawa's former Union Station and former CN and CP Walkley Yard. He has delivered presentations on Ottawa railway history at NMRA, CRHA and CARM-sponsored conventions, and has been published in Branchline magazine.
Andrew's professional aspirations are in the field of heritage conservation policy and planning. He looks forward to many years of work in the study, preservation, interpretation and rehabilitation of Canada's heritage buildings and cultural heritage landscapes. Aside from the TRHA, Andrew is a member of the Ottawa Railway History Circle, the Heritage Canada Foundation and ICOMOS Canada.