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John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection Harold Spence-Sales Fonds
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Harold-Spence-Sales Solo Publications

The file represents a box that contains publications that Harold Spence-Sales worked on solo. The publications are in alphabetical order.

Two copies of “How to subdivide: A handbook on the layout of housing developments".

One copy of a guide to urban dispersal.

One copy of the “The Delineation of Residential Localities in the Greater Vancouver Regional District”.

Three copies of a paper titled, “Physical Planning in the Region-British Endeavors”. Reprinted in The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science Vol. 13, No. 4 Nov.1947.

Harold Spence-Sales Fonds

  • CA CAC 97
  • Fonds
  • Approximately 1939 - 2005, 2009, 2012

The Harold Spence-Sales fonds at McGill’s Canadian Architecture Collection primarily contains project records related to Harold Spence-Sales' career as an architect and urban planner. The bulk of the records pertain to projects that Harold Spence-Sales worked on as well as corresponding financial, administrative and office records.

The fond heavily documents projects that Harold Spence-Sales worked on during the 1970s-1980s in British Columbia and in Quebec during the 1940s-1960s. Other projects that Harold Spence-Sales worked on across Canada and internationally appear intermittently throughout the fonds. The Oromocto community planning project that Harold Spence-Sales worked on from 1955-1958 in New Brunswick is particularly well documented. Harold Spence-Sales designed Oromocto to be a military town. Before He transformed Oromocto into a military town it was a defunct 19th century shipbuilding town. The Oromocto project is considered one of Harold Spence-Sales most important urban-town planning projects.

Apart from administrative, office and project records, the fonds also contains records that relate to Harold Spence-Sales professional activities outside of his work as an architect and urban planner. For example, awards and honors that he received and records related to his involvement in architectural and urban planning associations. Additional professional activities include: his involvement in creating exhibitions, curating architectural-themed magazines and periodicals as well as copies of publications that he worked on solo and in collaboration with John Bland.

The fonds also contains fourteen boxes of Harold Spence-Sales personal records. The personal records primarily cover Harold Spence-Sales interest in art, creative pursuits, family activities, family genealogy, personal finances, last will and testaments as well as his decline in health and his death. Within the fourteen boxes that have been cataloged as personal records, there are also materials related to Harold Spence-Sales professional activities. For example, awards that Harold Spence-Sales received and records related to exhibitions and artistic projects that he worked on.

Spence-Sales, Harold, 1907-2004

Harold Spence-Sales and John Bland Publications

The file represents a box that contains publications that Harold Spence-Sales and John Bland collaborated on. The publications are in alphabetical order. The types of publications that Bland and Spence-Sales worked on include reports about city planning. Locations include Sudbury, City of Prince Albert and areas of Newfoundland. Bland and Spence-Sales also wrote a report and guidelines about establishing a planning department in the city of Vancouver. The box also contains a book that Bland and Spence-Sales wrote together in 1939, titled, “England’s Water Planning Problems”. Also includes one draft: "Draft report on investigation into planning legislation in Canada" (1948).

Publications and writings

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

Professional records

Series 2 contains records that documents the professional activities of Harold Spence-Sales that are unrelated to the professional projects that he worked on. Series 2 contains records regarding Harold Spence-Sales activities within professional associations. Series 2 also holds copies of many of the articles and books Harold Spence-Sales wrote as a solo author as well as titles that he collaborated on with John Bland. Series 2 also documents Harold Spence-Sales exhibition interests. Primarily exhibitions that Harold Spence-Sales worked on. Moreover, Series 2 also contains issues of urban planning and architectural publications that were of interest to Harold Spence-Sales.

Series 2 Also contains some records related to Architects Humphrey Carver, Moshe Safdie and Peter Oberlander who were colleagues and friends of Harold Spence-Sales. These records can be found in series 2 subsereies E.

Uranisitica

The file represents a box. The box contains ten volumes of "Urbanistica"; a Spanish architecture-urban planning magazine.

The ten volumes were printed between 140 and 1960. The volumes of "Urbanistica" have been arranged in numerical order.

Periodicals and magazines

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.

Relocation Queries.

The file contains personal correspondence between Harold Spence-Sales, John Bland other members of the McGill faculty. The correspondence discusses Harold Spence-Sales offer to teach at McGill University and the relocation process from London England to Montreal.

Associations, correspondence, and collaborations

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.

Miscellaneous administrative records, 1947-1950

The file contains a syllabus for a seminar, by-law forms, as well as meeting notes and transcripts from, the St Laurent Kiwanis club, planning committee fellowship for the study of housing and community planning meeting, regional planning seminar and meeting of city council and discussion on town planning dates.

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