The Nobbs fonds consists of the work of Percy Erskine Nobbs, George Taylor Hyde, Nobbs and Hyde, Nobbs and Valentine, and Nobbs and Nobbs. 526 projects are documented in the Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds. Architectural drawings form the core of the fonds, providing a comprehensive listing of the drawings by Percy Nobbs and his associates. Arranged chronologically, the inventory reflects respectively the development of the partnerships Nobbs and Hyde (1910-1944), Nobbs and Valentine (1945-1950), and Nobbs and Nobbs (1950-1960). Hugh A. I. Valentine worked only briefly with Nobbs, spending the bulk of his career with the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. His commissioned drawings and student notebooks cannot be directly related to his work with Nobbs, but are nonetheless described in subfonds 8. Subfonds 6 and 7 describe Percy Nobbs's personal papers and three-dimensional objects designed by him which are in the Canadian Architecture Collection.

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.

File includes two drawings of details of designs for the War Office (1898), Whitehall, London.

Contient deux dessins architecturaux: détails des plans du ministère de la Guerre (1898), Whitehall (Londres).

"Architectural Drawing, n.d., 1 drawing". Included is a drawing in the archive of the façade of the American Presbyterian Church on St. James Street in Montreal. This drawing has not been described

"Dessin architectural, s.d., 1 dessin." Notamment un dessin de la façade de l'église American Presbyterian, sur la rue Saint-Jacques à Montréal. Ce dessin n'a pas encore été décrit.

"Architectural Drawings, 1959, 6 drawings." Included are drawings for proposed dormitory units for McGill University in Mount St. Hilaire, PQ.
"Photographs, 1959, 3 photographs." Proposed dormitory units for McGill University are documented by photographs.

"Dessins architecturaux, 1959, 6 dessins." Notamment les dessins d'une proposition de dortoirs pour l'Université McGill au Mont Saint-Hilaire (Québec). Ces dessins ont été dépouillés mais n'ont pas encore été décrits.
"Photographies, 1959, 3 photos." La proposition de dortoirs pour l'Université McGill est documentée par des photos. Celles-ci n'ont pas encore été décrites.

"Architectural Drawings, 1937, 13 drawings." Copies of drawings of the plan, elevations and sections of the Redpath Museum as well as drawings for a house and store for Alfred Joyce on Philips Square in Montreal are found in the archive. Gilbert Caron, MMFA

"Dessins architecturaux, 1937, 13 dessins." Le fonds comprend des copies de dessins de plans, d'élévations et de coupes du musée Redpath ainsi que des dessins d'une maison et d'un magasin commandés par Alfred Joyce au square Philips de Montréal.

The archives contains at this time an estimated 20 000 plans and drawings, 600 presentation boards, 500 loose sketches, 60 sketchbooks, 600 boxes of projects and office files, 80 models, 200 computer diskettes, and a representative collection of slides, photographic prints, audio-visual material, as well as a bibliographic file of primary and secondary literature. Materials are in the process of being accessioned and described.

Le fonds contient présentement environ 20 000 plans et dessins, 600 panneaux de présentation, 500 croquis, 60 carnets de croquis, 600 boîtes de dossiers de projets et de bureau, 80 maquettes, 200 disquettes d'ordinateur, une collection de diapositives représentative de son oeuvre, des photographies, du matériel audio-visuel et des dossiers bibliographiques de sources primaires et secondaires. Le matériel est en train d'être dépouillé mais n'a pas encore été décrit.

Consists of 2 architectural drawings on paper of Canada Cement Company Building, 606 Cathcart Street, Montreal, Quebec, 1921 (1955 copies). Includes front elevation, details of cols. pilons etc., 2nd and 3rd floors).

Fonds consists of architectural drawings of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, dating from 1889-1892. Also included are drawings of Ross Memorial and other later additions (1914, 1916). Drawings are in various combinations of pen and blue and black ink; brown, pink, green, blue, coloured pencils, and graphite, most laid down on board, with many on linen laid down on board, some on paper laid down on board, one on linen, one on paper. All are working drawings and include plans, elevations, sections and details. 66 drawings comprise a group of working drawings for the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. The Administrative Building, Surgical Theatre, Medical Theatre, West Wing, Eastern Pavilion and Power Plant, are the main areas of concentration. Drawings for the Administration Building include the earliest floor plans, a full set of floor plans before it was reduced, including “Plan of Ground Floor or Principal Entrance Floor” which has a ‘tack on drawing’, and a complete set of plans and sections for the smaller Administration Building, signed off.

"Architectural drawings, 1957-76, 161 drawings."
The archive holds drawings for seven projects.
Beardmore Building, 417 rue St. Pierre, Montreal, Que., 3 drawings by I. Nicolas from 1936, 11 drawings by Harry Stilman. The building was originally designed in 1911 by Howard C. Stone.
New Building for Canadian Vickers Ltd., 4970 Notre Dame Street, East, Montreal, Que., 1963-64, 12 drawings
Davis YM-YWHA Building, Cote St. Luc, Que., 1965-66, 16 drawings
Pavilion of Judaism, Expo '67,1966-67, 46 drawings
YM-YWHA Building Chomedy Branch, Laval, Que., 1969-70, 35 drawings
Yeshiva Gedola Mercaz Hatorah, Deacon Road, Montreal, Que., 1973, 18 drawings
Alterations to 180 St. Catherine Street East, Montreal, Que., [La Patrie Building], 1973-74,76, 19 drawings including plan of property

"Photographs"
Beardmore Building, 417 rue St. Pierre, Montreal, Que., 3 photographs
Alterations to 180 St. Catherine Street East, Montreal, Que., [La Patrie Building], 13 photographs