Subseries C consists of copies of publications that Harold Spence-Sales authored independently and publications that he co-authored with John Bland.

Subseries D consists of a collection of magazines and periodicals that Harold Spence-Sales curated. The topics of the magazines and periodicals pertains to issues in architecture and urban planning.

Many of the magazines and periodicals feature Moshe Safdie; particularly the ones in box C-97-46.

Subseries A consists of records related to Harold Spence-Sales activities within professional associations: the Ontario Professional Planners Institute, the Community Planning Association of Canada, the Corporation of Urbanites Quebec, the Quebec Society of Professional Town Planners, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Town Planning Institute of Canada and the group Lambda Alpha International. Subseries A also encompasses records regarding events that Harold Spence-Sales attended. Events such as, McGill School Architecture, celebrations, award ceremonies as well as various professional conferences and lectures.

Subseries A consists of financial records that pertain to Harold Spence-Sales professional activities; contracts, estimations for projects, service fees, business expenses, grants and business statements.

Subseries A also contains of records that are of an administrative nature that are unrelated to financial expenses but are related to professional responsibilities. Administrative records contain publicity materials, research, correspondence and various kinds reports that were sent to Harold Spence-Sales throughout the course of his work as an urban planner that he may not have directly contributed to.

Subseries C consists of maps that Harold Spence-Sales used to work on urban development projects but the ventures have not been identified. The cartographic materials in subseries C are comprised of printed and hand drawn maps.

Subseries E consists primarily of records that Harold Spence-Sales used to work on personal or profession projects that have not been identified. There is one project in subseries E that has been well documented; the 1107 W. 7th Avenue Vancouver project.

1107 W. 7th Avenue Vancouver was Harold Spence-Sales and Mary Filers home and personal art studios.

Subseries B consists of reports. The reports in subseries B were often written by Harold Spence-Sales sometimes in collaboration with colleagues and urban planning professionals in order to document the steps required to bring an urban development project to life.

The reports discuss geography, sediment analysis, statistics, safety, logistics, environmental concerns, engineering and other topics that need to be considered in order to bring urban-architectural development projects from the idea and preparation phases to reality.

Subseries B consists of records that are graphic in nature; primarily slide-transparencies, photographs and negatives.

The photographic materials within subseries B are primarily aerial photographs and photographs of landscapes, land formations and geographical features. Harold Spence-Sales likely used the photographs to help him understand the geographic areas for the urban development projects that he worked on.

Subseries A consists of records related to projects that Harold Spence-Sales worked on as an urban planner and consultant. The files in subseries A contains records that are created and used while an urban planner works on urban development projects.

Subseries B consists of records related to Harold Spence-Sales interest in creating exhibitions.

Subseries B primarily consists of records related to Spence-Sales Exhibition; “Touchlines”. Harold Spence-Sales worked on developing the “Touchlines” exhibition from 1989-1991. The exhibition was displayed at Western Washington University from May 10 through July 30, 1992 . The topic of the “Touchlines” exhibition was to portray the common lands along the border between the United States and Canada and the people that pass through them.

In series 1 Subseries F: Audiovisual and artifacts there are several VHS cassette tapes that discuss the "Touchlines" exhibition.

Another Exhibition that is well represented in the fonds is the "Vancouver Parks" exhibition that Harold Spence-Sales worked on in 1988. All files in box C-97-64 are related to the "Vancouver Parks" exhibition in some way.

There are some files that clearly indicate that it contains records related to the "Vancouver Parks" exhibition based on the title. Any file that contains "Vancouver Parks" in the title may be related to the "Vancouver Parks" exhibition.