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OCAD U graduate Lisette Mallet, who served as president of the Toronto Historical Society from 2016 to 2022 and was a dedicated society volunteer, passed away on January 13, 2023 after a six-month battle with cancer. She was 63.
A graduate of the Ontario School of Art and Design (now OCAD University) class of 1984, Mallet worked as an illustrator/graphic designer and as a scientific illustrator. She produced more than 1,400 illustrations for Wild Furbearer Management and Conservation in North America, including an extensive classification guide to 32 species of fur bearers.
According to the obituary in published in The Star, she “was passionate about "la Francophonie" and history, especially the francophone history of Toronto. In 1999, her contributions helped to designate the Humber River as a Canadian Heritage River and to maintain this designation through heritage and ecological activities.”
The obituary also noted that “between 2007 and 2011, Mallet was hired as coordinator for the awareness of francophone history in Toronto. She worked together with a team of City of Toronto staff to collaborate with Heritage Toronto and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority to create Le Sentier Partagé--The Shared Path, a historic park that starts at the mouth of the Humber River and winds up to Dundas Street West. This park, inaugurated in 2011, was the first bilingual park in Toronto, telling the story of the First Nations, the arrival of the first francophones and anglophones, and the beginnings of the development of the city of Toronto.”
She is survived by her husband, David Wallace; her two sons, André Mallet-Wallace and Jean Christophe Mallet-Wallace.
Visitation will be held at Turner & Porter Funeral "Yorke Chapel" (2357 Bloor Street West), on Sunday, January 29, 2023, from 2 to 6 p.m. The funeral service will be held at the same location on Monday, January 30, 2023, at 3 p.m.
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Thestar.com