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Part of Witold Rybczynski Fonds
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Part of Witold Rybczynski Fonds
Part of Witold Rybczynski Fonds
Contains bound uncorrected proofs for: The Most Beautiful House in the World, Waiting for the Weekend, Looking Around, City Life, One Good Turn, The Perfect House, Last Harvest, My Two Polish Grandfathers, Makeshift Metropolis, How Architecture Works, Mysteries of the Mall, and Now I Sit Me Down.
Waiting for the Weekend, Galleys and manuscript
Part of Witold Rybczynski Fonds
Part of Harold Spence-Sales Fonds
Subseries G consists of records dealing with end of life matters, including wills and financial bequests (Box C-97-58), and records related to Harold Spence-Sales death; obituaries, tributes, memorial and funeral service information, DVDs, death certificate, cremation certificate, last will and testament, and correspondence between Mary Filer-Spence-Sales and friends and family regarding Harold’s death (Boxes C-97-60 and C-97-61). Box C-97-62C contains notebooks related to Harold Spence-Sales's care towards the end of his life .
Subseries G also includes eleven notebooks and two folders. The notebooks and folders date between 1999 and 2004; they were written by Harold Spence-Sales nurses and care takers. The notebooks document Harold Spence-Sales health, dietary and medical issues (Boxes C-97-60 and C-97-61).
Miscellaneous aerial photographs
Part of Harold Spence-Sales Fonds
The file contains an assortment of aerial photographs, including from Silvermere and Langley.
Part of Harold Spence-Sales Fonds
The file contains a combination of what appear to be project and personal photographs. Some materials are annotated some are not.
Part of Harold Spence-Sales Fonds
Subseries A consists of records that pertain to family events, home life and genealogy. It Includes many photographs of events such as birthday parties and weddings (possibly Harold Spence-Sales' and Mary Filer's wedding). Also includes photographs of the couple's early years together and their home art and sculpture collection.
Part of Harold Spence-Sales Fonds
Series consists of architecture books and periodicals from Spence-Sales's personal library.
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
Miscellaneous negatives and proofsheets
Part of Harold Spence-Sales Fonds
Consists of one envelope and five spiral binders of photograph negatives and black and white proof sheets, labelled and numbered.