Everything about Colin Vaughan totally explained
Colin Vaughan (
1931 –
January 1,
2000) was a television journalist, urban activist and alderman serving the
Canadian city of
Toronto. He was best known as the political specialist for the Toronto television station
Citytv from 1977 until his death. He died suddenly of a
heart attack at the age of 68.
Personal life
Born in
Australia, Vaughan studied architecture in Sydney and moved to Montreal, Canada in the 1950s. He moved to Toronto in the mid-fifties to work at Page and Steele, a noted Toronto firm. There he met Peter Dickinson. In the late fifties he became one of
Peter Dickinson's original associates with Dickinson's new firm. In the early sixties he,
Rod Robbie, Dick Williams set out on their own. The new firm Robbie, Vaughan and Williams would go on to win a competition to build Canada's pavilion at
Expo 67. Vaughan also worked on the
O'Keefe Centre's interior as well as the Inn on the Park and 2 King Street West.
In 1972 he was elected to
Toronto City Council and in 1974 he was elected to
Metro Council. Vaughan was one of several new aldermen elected in 1972 who created a pro-reform, pro-neighbourhood majority on city council under the new reform mayor
David Crombie.
Journalism career
Vaughan left city council in the 1977, after five years on city council, to begin a new career as a journalist with Citytv's new local daily news show,
CityPulse. In later decades, he also wrote on municipal politics for the
Globe & Mail the
Toronto Star and
Toronto Life magazine.
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