Fonds consists of landscape drawings for the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, 35 mm slides of 5 roof concept drawings for Library Square, Vancouver, BC (1992-1994 and undated). Includes:

Landscape drawings for the National Gallery of Canada:
Planting Plan of Plaza, (framed)
1:200; 29 August 1984, black-line base plan with colour pencil rendering
28 x 46 inches

Overall Conceptual Plan, (matted)
1:1000; 29 August 1984; black-line base plan with colour pencil rendering
30 x 38 inches (plan includes landscape design for Major's Hill Park)

War Museum Courtyard with Poplars, (matted)
1:200; August 1984; axonometric; pencil on vellum with colour pencil rendering1
8 x 30 inches

Master Landscape Plan, (unframed)
1:1000; 13 November 1984; black-line base plan with colour pencil rendering
33 x 47 and 1/2 inches

Concept sketches of the development of the planted roof at Library Square:
Library Square 'A',
1:200; 17 December 1992; marker on trace
14 x 23 inches

Library Square 'D',
17 December 1992; marker with colour pencil rendering on trace
14 x 23 inches

Library Square, Proposed Roof-Scape,
1:200; 18 January 1993; ink on trace
13 x 20 inches

Drawn by Elisabeth Whitelaw
Final Concept, Library Roof,
1:100; 30 May 1994; ink, coloured pencil, watercolour on trace
14 x 26 1/2 inches

Drawn by Elisabeth Whitelaw
Library Square, Roof Concept,
1:200; undated; marker, pencil, coloured pencil on trace
14 x 25 1/2 inches

Drawn by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and Moshe Safdie
Three 35 mm slides of the roof (copies; originals by Elizabeth Whitelaw):
[Growing medium being taken to roof in bucket by crane]
[Blue and green fescues on roof, looking toward Federal Tower]
[View of Library showing planted roof]

Fonds consists of architectural drawings, textual records, and bound volumes. Architectural drawings and paper files are related to a proposal by Descon / Concordia in joint venture with Philip David Bobrow for "Operation Breakthrough" a program developed through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. in 1970. "Operation Breakthrough" was a broad residential development program designed to resolve a multitude of problems in order to make available quality housing in large quantities by utilizing modern design and technology, and contemporary approaches to financing, marketing, land use and management. Other architectural drawings and a model of the Belec Residence, 1 Grove Park, Westmount QC, 1997-1998, are included. The fonds also contains 12 bound volumes of studies, programs, reports related to the Institution à sécurité maximale 2, Mirabel, QC, 1977,1979.

Fonds contains architectural drawings representing twenty-one projects, including:

1. Town of Mount Royal Library; 1966 (26 drawings)
2. Sources Library, Roxboro, Quebec: 1967 (11 drawings)
3. Pointe Claire Library, Pointe-Claire, Quebec: 1973 (31 drawings)
4. Brenninkmeyer Residence, Beaconsfield, Quebec: 1975 (58 drawings)
5. North Hatley Library Expansion & Renovation: 1985 (18 drawings)
6. Bank of Montreal Molsons Bank Building: 1987-88 (16 drawings)
7. Bank of Montreal Main Branch, Place d'Armes, Montreal: 1987 (18 drawings)
8. St-Patrick's Church, Montreal (62 drawings)
9. Office Building, Greene Avenue, Westmount, Quebec: 1985-1990 (135 drawings)
10. McGill Bookstore, Montreal, Quebec: 1987-1990 (91 drawings)
11. Modification to a Barn, Baie d'Urfe, Quebec: 1989 (23 drawings)
12. Andraos Residence, Surrey Gardens, Westmount, Quebec: 1989 (35 drawings)
13. Chapelle du Frere Andre, Oratoire St-Joseph, Montreal: 1991 (22 drawings)
14. Loyola High School, Montreal: 1991 (59 drawings)
15. Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal: 1993-1996 (36 drawings)
16. Eglise Notre-Dame de la Garde, Verdun, Quebec: 1997 (8 drawings)
17. Eclairage de la Basilique Oratoire St-Joseph du Mont-Royal, Montreal: 1999 (10 drawings)
18. McGill University Athletic Complex, Montreal: 1992-2001 (172 drawings)
19. Cegep John Abbott, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec (194 drawings)
20. Concordia University Downtown Library, Montreal (204 drawings)
21. Holy Name of Jesus Church, Chomedy, Laval: 1968 (11 drawings)

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.

The fonds chiefly reflects Gordon Edwards' professional practice, both in consortium with various firms and as an individual practitioner, and also reflects his teaching career at McGill University and the Université de Montreal, however there are some files of a personal nature. Correspondence, lighting design proposals, and their accompanying documentation (such as architectural plans) are included. A majority of the files representing his professional projects contain the same types of documents: architectural plans, lighting fixture schedules, illuminance grids, and manufacturer's literature and brochures. In addition, there are some miscellaneous photographs both of professional and personal nature, negatives, and fabric samples.

The correspondence is both personal and business-related; most of it deals with his practice and various projects and proposals, but there is also correspondence relating to legal and banking matters. There are letters from Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. There is also correspondence from noted architect Moshe Safdie and Canadian War Museum architect Raymond Moriyama.

Plans include lighting designs for the Supreme Court of Canada, the Outremont Library, and the McCord Museum expansion project.

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.

"Architectural Drawings, 1964-7, 19 drawings." Drawings for alterations to the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals building on Rue Jean Talon in Montreal and to the Ross house on St. Sulpice Road in Westmount, as well as drawings of the design of the Manoir Comeau in Baie Comeau, PQ, are found in the archive.
"Papers, 1964, 5 cm." The collection includes correspondence and invoices relating to the design and construction of alterations to the house of J. K. M. Ross on St. Sulpice Street in Westmount.

"Dessins architecturaux, 1964-1967, 19 dessins." Dessins d'un projet de modifications à l'immeuble de la SPCA rue Jean-Talon à Montréal et à la maison Ross, chemin Saint-Sulpice, à Westmount ainsi que des dessins du Manoir Comeau de Baie-Comeau (Québec).
"Documents, 1964, 5 cm." La correspondance et les factures rattachées au projet de modifications à la maison de J. K. M. Ross, chemin Saint-Sulpice à Westmount.

"Architectural Drawings"
Canadian Pacific Railway Company Terminal Station and General Office Vancouver B.C., n.d., 17 drawings
Canadian Pacific Railway Company Vancouver Hotel Alterations and Additions., n.d., 9 drawings
Canadian Pacific Railway Company Regina Station, n.d., 5 drawings

"Dessins architecturaux, s. d., 7 dessins." S'y retrouvent les plans, les élévations, les coupes et les détails de la Gare centrale de Vancouver et des bureaux généraux du Canadien Pacifique de même que les dessins de la gare de Régina, également réalisés pour le compte du Canadien Pacifique.

Fonds contains 10 watercolour renderings of "Maison dite de Robespierre," which was built in 1762 and demolished in 1909, and an unidentified English Gothic building, perhaps a guild hall or a town hall. There is a pen and ink drawing of an elevation of the façade of an English Gothic church. In addition, there are unsigned survey drawings of the Redpath Library of McGill University, depicting the building after the construction of the second extension designed by Percy Erskine Nobbs (1875-1964) in 1921. The Redpath Library was designed in 1891 by Andrew Thomas Taylor (1850-1937) and George William Hamilton Gordon (approximately 1854-1906).

Le fonds contient notamment des aquarelles de la «Maison dite de Robespierre», qui a été construite en 1762 et démolie en 1909, ainsi que d'un immeuble de style gothique anglais, peut-être une maison de corporation ou un hôtel de ville. Il y a un dessin au trait de la façade d'une église de style gothique anglais. En outre, il y a des dessins d'arpentage non signés de la bibliothèque Redpath de l'Université McGill représentant l'immeuble après la construction de la deuxième annexe dessinée par Percy Erskine Nobbs (1875-1964) en 1921. Le plan initial de la bibliothèque Redpath a été conçu en 1891 par Andrew Thomas Taylor (1850-1937) et George William Hamilton (circa 1854-1906).

"Architectural drawings, specifications and correspondence for the Seagrams Building 1929, 1931, 1955-57."
24 ink on linen; 25 pencil on paper
8 pencil on waxed paper; 21 blueprints; 4 blueline prints; 4 reproductive print.
10 design drawings: floor plans, section.
5 development drawings structural plans, elevator hatchway, rear elevation, opening in party wall. <br>32 working drawings: floor plans, elevations, sections, roof plan mechanical plans.
23 shop drawings: schedule, footing plan, elevations, wiring, mezzanine, stairs, elevator elevator, penthouse, machinery, floor slab, metalwork, structural plans, steelwork, structural details, structural analysis of existing frame, structural steel plans.
23 details: front elevation, display window and shop entrance, revised elevation, stair framing, roof framing, existing party wall, front elevation including wall section and half plans lightwell, framing plan, flush duct, junction box, walker duct, office partitions, stairs, wall sections, vent dome, general office, windows, entrance doorway, stonework, piping, heating system, boiler room, interior elevations, panelling, display window.
1 sheet; Distillers Corporation Building History. July 5, 1974.
De Stein & McCutcheon. Analysis of Capacity of Existing Structural Frame to Support an Additional Story for Distillers Corporation Limited Peel Street Building. July 11,1955.
F.D. Mathias. Specifications for Heating, Plumbing and Ventilation. July 1955.
F. D. Mathias. Specification for Air conditioning. December 1955.
F. D. Mathias. Specifications for Additions and Alterations to 1430 Peel Street Distillers Corporation Limited. August 1, 1955.
F.D. Mathias. Specifications for Alterations to Heating System. June 1957.
Alterations to Heating System Addendum no.1. July 5, 1957.
Specification for Structural Steel.
Correspondence: De Stein & McCutcheon to F.D. Mathias, Montreal, August 8, 1956.
Correspondence: De Stein & McCutcheon to F.D. Mathias, Montreal, October 6, 1956.
F.D. Mathias. Work to be done for 3rd floor alteration. January 21, 1959.

"Architectural drawings and paper files Belgo Building, 1912, 1913,1923, 1924, 1937, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1965, 1970."
10 paper, 30 linen, 14 blueprints.
working drawings: elevations, plans, details
structural, electrical, mechanical.