The fonds contains the majority of the drawings and papers of Montreal architect and landscape architect John Schreiber, who was a professor in the School of Architecture at McGill from 1953 to 1987. These documents constitute a rich treasure of original design work, expressed in draughtsmanship of great virtuosity. John Schreiber’s work is an example of the contribution to Canadian architecture and landscape architecture of a generation of Europeans who, leaving that war-shattered continent in the late forties and fifties, found an appreciative and fertile ground for their talents and ambitions in Canada. The two hundred and thirty four projects represented in the Schreiber fonds span half a century of work and are documented in more than four thousand plans and drawings, hundreds of photographs and close to six linear metres of textual files.

Contains sketches relating to the following projects:
Design for the Development of York County, Maine, USA
Divisions of New England area into regions on the basis of Broad Visual Characteristics
Development of area between Dorchester, Ste. Catherine, Greene Ave., and Hallowell Ave., Westmount, QC
Moody Beach Area, Maine, USA
Harvard Housing

File includes projects by Schreiber's students, including:
Meadowbrooke Primary School-Project System School Building by B.H. Kwan April 1975 (5 prints).
System School by Chan Ming Kong 1975 (8 prints).
System School Building- Ecole Samuel de Champlain by S. Moranelli, date unknown (14 prints).
Somerville Condominium by Robert Awad, date unknown (6 sepia).
Bakery Site, Westmount, Que. by Jack Edelberg, December 1973 (5 prints).
Public Junior High School in Taiwan, origin unknown, July 1971 (1 sepia).
Habitation Pointe Claire-Batiments Terrassees, by Freudenreich, Halicki, Kwan, date unknown (24 prints).
System School Building, Meadowbrook Primary School By Z. Freudenreich, date unknown (7 prints).

2 drawings with summary of information assembled relating to properties for sale on rue Laval, rue St. Denis, and Carré St. Louis.

Consists of 1 project file (report dated 10 July 1980).

File contains 3 working drawings.

File consists of 1 working drawing (no project file).

File consists of preliminary design drawing in pencil and marker on sepia and one sheet of text. Also includes project file.

File consists of 3 reproductions on photographic paper showing plan, site plan, exterior and interior perspectives, section and elevation. Also includes 1 project file (architectural competition report submitted by architects).

File consists of 4 drawings (3 existing conditions drawings, 1 preliminary drawing). (No project file.)