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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

Fowler Lines

File consists of 9 drawings, including 1 title page, 2 exterior perspectives, 6 preliminary drawings, and 6 project files (correspondence, contract, report).

Le Plateau Marquette

55 drawings:1 existing city plan, 10 preliminary sketches, 13 design development drawings, 31 design development sketches1 print, 5 marker and ink on trace, 5 ink on vellum, 1 marker on mylar, 10 ink and marker on sepia, 33 marker on trace38 x 61cm, 108 x 117cm36 drawings: cadastral plan, 32 preliminary sketches, 3 final presentation drawings16 marker on trace,16 pencil or marker on photocopy paper, 3 ink on vellum43 x 28cm 2 aerial photographsOriginal report Aménagement d'une place publique, première des trois etapes. 54 sheets.11 project files( specifications, correspondence, reports, 13 negatives, soil reports, traffic studies, minutes of meetings)

Complex Guy Favreau

File consists of 146 drawings, including 98 preliminary drawings, 47 design development drawings, 1 presentation drawing, and 11 slides, as well as 5 project files (correspondence, minutes of meetings)

John Schreiber/Ron Williams Architects, Landscape Architects

Aménagement du stationnement et de la plaza du Plateau Marquette

29 drawings:3 design development drawings, 26 working drawings 1 pencil on vellum, 3 prints, 2 ink on paper, 1 ink on vellum, 4 pencil on paper, 6 pencil on sepia, 3 ink on sepia, 1 ink on mylar, 6 ink on vellum, 3 ink and pencil on vellum86 x 120cm, 28 x 21cm6 drawings:working drawings 2 ink on vellum, 1 pencil on vellum, 2 pencil on trace, 1 ink on paper, 43 X 28cm1 contract, 1 costing estimate, 2 planting lists, 1 legend.7 project files ( mechanical and electrical specifications, memos)

Pershing Square Design Competition

File includes 28 drawings (25 design sketches, 3 final competition renderings, 24 marker on trace, 1 print, 1 marker on print, 2 ink on vellum) and a project file (competition brief, sketches, plan of existing square).

La Cité International de Montréal

File consists of 17 drawings (including 2 final competition drawings, 1 exterior perspective, 14 preliminary sketches) along with 7 pages of text (no project files). Most of the drawings are by Norbert Schoenauer.

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