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.

"Architectural Drawings, professional correspondence, specifications, etc., ca. 1960s, 13 cm, 17 file folders." Unaccessioned materials relating to three projects: St. Helen's School in Dunham, PQ, Camp Amy Molson, and Knox Crescent and Kensington Presbyterian Church on Godfrey Avenue in Montreal.

"Dessins architecturaux, correspondance professionnelle, cahiers des charges, etc., circa 1960, 13 cm, 17 chemises." Le matériel non encore dépouillé se rapporte à trois projets : l'école St. Helen de Dunham (Québec), la colonie de vacances Amy Molson et l'église presbytérienne Knox Crescent and Kensington, avenue Godfrey à Montréal.

The fonds is composed of G.E. Wilson's student work, primarily between 1930 and 1935, including design projects and notebooks from the History of Architecture course (1931-1933), and drawings generated from his travels on the McLennan Travelling Scholarship. Mr Wilson's professional work concentrates on his residential projects in Quebec while in partnership with G. E. Auld. The publications vary from his four books based on his experiences in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII to home planning books, office brochures and reports.

"Architectural drawings", 56 projects are represented in this archive including:
1947 - MCGILL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (Thesis design)
1948 - STUDIEN BLATT (student work)
1950 - ERE, Mr. L. / Residence, St. Lambert
1950 - DUNBAR, Mr. G. / Residence, Chateauguay Heights, QC
1953-59 PHILLIPS HOUSE / Renovation 1953, 54, 55, 58, 59
1953-59 CENTRAL HOUSING & MORTAGE 1953, 54, 56, 58, 59
1954 - BRETT, Mr. & Mrs. John / Proposed house, Hudson, QC
1955 - SPIRODEX HOUSE / Proposed
1955 - HAND, E. / House, Baie d’Urfe, QC
1955 - PARISH OF STE. ANNE, Baie d’Urfe, QC
1956-71 ST. GEORGE (High) School, Montreal 1956, 57, 69, 71
1957 - INTER-CITY TRANSPORT / Warehouse
1962 - LAKEHOUSE UNITARIAN CHURCH (Playhouse for Nursery School)
1962-81- AFFLECH HOUSE, Libbytown additions 1962, 63, 78, 80, 81
1963 - MONTREAL CONCERT HALL (and others)
1967 - EXPOSITION UNIVERSAL CANADIENNE
1967 - FISCH, Mr. G. G. / Residence, Ste. Agathe, QC
1973-74 HARRISON, Mr. G. / House, Mont Tremblant, QC
1974 - THE BONDMANS BARN
1974 - INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOSYNTHESIS
1976 - BLAKE, Mr. & Mrs. Ken / House
1977 - HARVEY/ Residence
1977 - TILDEN / Residence Greenhouse
1977 - PORCH ENCLOSURE, 20 Anworth
1977 - HEATH, Mr. P. / House, Stanstead, QC
1974-77- ARCOP ASSOCIATION / Office renovation, 1440 Ste. Catherine O.
1977- RESIDENCE, corner Mount Pleasant & Montrose avenues. Proposed Kitchen Layout 77
1978 - THEATRE, St.Denis, Montreal, QC
1978 - COHEN, Diane / House alterations, Hatley, QC
1978-80 MARITIME MUSEUM, Halifax, NS
n.d.- AFFLECK HOUSE / 16 George’s St., Westmount, QC
1980-83- BIRD, Mr. & Mrs. F. / Kitchen
1986 - Happy recovery Wishes from all Macdonald dwellers
1983-84- HODGSON HOUSE & KENT HOUSE, Hatley (Massawhippi)
1984 - UNIDENTIFIED SKETCHES (4)
1984 - STUDIES FOR OFFICE building, etc. , Sherbrooke, Mansfield, Metcalfe
1984-86 MCGILL UNIVERSITY / Project
1985 - ALDO HOUSE, Lake Champlain, NY
1985 - ROYAL BANK / Proposed extension, Saskatoon, SK
1985-86 SHEARD HOUSE (Preliminaries)
1986 - ALCAN BERKELEY CONTROL GATE
1986 - RENOVATION to 26 Apple-Hill, Baie d’Urfe, QC
1986 - NO 1 WOOD AVENUE CONDOMINIUM, Westmount, QC
1964 1985 - PLACE BONAVENTURE (General, South & West Plaza)
1987 - PLACE BONAVENTURE / Renovation
n.d.- BANKERS HALL
n.d. - BEDROOKE, E.P. / House, Beaurepaire, QC
n.d.- DEVONSHIRE SCHOOL
n.d.- HIGH MEADOWS FARM, Georgeville, QC
n.d.- ITC PALA CENTER, Calcutta
n.d.- MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTTRA, McGill College, Montreal, QC
n.d.- PHILLIPS, Mr. & Mrs. / House
n.d.- PLACE VILLE MARIE, Montréal, QC
n.d.- TEXACO GAS STATION, Dorval, QC
n.d.- TITLE BLOCK M (Opti négatives), Master les Cours Montréal

The fonds comprises nine series (including seven main categories of information) of records on the life and career of Frederick B. Taylor. It is the largest collection to date on Frederick B. Taylor. Biographical Information includes an excerpt from an unpublished autobiographical manuscript, Essays includes works such as "Reflections on painting Stephen Leacock", Photographs includes both professional and social snapshots. Two main facets of the Archive which hold particular interest are Works and Correspondence. Works includes over 1550 reproductions of Taylor's work. This selection is a cross-section of Taylor's artistic mediums and includes painting (landscape, industrial, portrait, still-life), etching, drawing, sculpture as well as six original prints and seven original canvases located at McGill University. Correspondence comprises some 2000 letters, documents or memorandums, spans from the early 1920s up until Taylor's death in 1987 and is divided into professional and personal series. The professional series focuses primarily on the relationships Taylor held with various private galleries and exhibitors of his work including the Klinkhoff, Kastel and Dominion Galleries in Montreal, the Roberts Gallery in Toronto as well as numerous Canadian public galleries and museums which remain repositories of Taylor's work, among them the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The personal section demonstrates Taylor's substantial and often life-long relationships with his family and friends, among them, artists André Bieler, Alan Harrison and Carl Allen Smart as well as Paul Wakefield and Colin Wyatt.

Includes correspondence, journals, books, manuscripts, photographic material, audio tapes, course material, research material, postcards, book reviews, conference proceedings, thesis, and articles for publication.

Fonds contains drawings, photographs, slides, professional papers and correspondence relating to interior architecture, design practice, design research and design consulting.

File list:
"Swedish Design Practice, 1930-1950: Interiors"
22 oversize folders, 15 file folders, 2 boards and 20 photographs.

"Swedish Design Practice, 1930-1950: Furniture"
17 oversize folders, 8 boards, 6 photographs.

"Swedish Design Practice, 1930-1950: Exhibitions"
9 oversize folders and 7 file folders

"Swedish Design Research, 1930-1950: Swedish Housing and Domestic Design, Research Tour of the USA"
14 files folders

"Swedish Papers, 1930-1950: Assorted Reference Literature, Publicity Newsclippings, Museum File Photos"
12 files folders and 17 photographs

"Canadian Design Practice, 1950-1994: Architecture"
17 oversize folders, 1 file folder and 3 photographs

"Canadian Design Practice, 1950-1994: Interiors and Furniture"
133 oversize folders, 99 photographs

"Canadian Design Practice, 1950-1994: Exhibitions"
2 oversize folders, 3 file folders, 1 board and 33 photographs

"Canadian Design Practice, 1950-1994: Operations and Marketing"
1 oversize folder and 3 file folders

"Design Portfolio, 1942-1967"
7 folders and 30 slides

"Canadian Design Research, 1950-1994: CMHC Kitchen Research Project"
4 oversize folders and 29 file folders

"Canadian Design, 1971-1977: Consulting for Design Canada and the Royal Canadian Mint"
23 file folders and 20 slides

"Canadian Papers, 1950-1994"
40 file folders, 36 slides and 1 board

Record of births and deaths, 1812-1899; diaries, 1820-1821, 1824-1825, 1898-1899; copy book of family letters, 1790-1886; genealogical tree and register of Charlottenburgh municipality, Ontario, 1851 and 1876 to 1880.

The fonds contains photographs, drawings, textual records, and other material used by France Gagnon Pratte as the basis for her 1987 book, "Country Houses for Montrealers, 1892 - 1924: The Architecture of E. and W.S. Maxwell". There are also records related to a book project on the architecture associated with the Canadian Pacific Railway Line.

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]