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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

Werleman Guy McMahon

  • CA CAC 92
  • Fonds
  • 1966-2001

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)

Werleman Guy McMahon Architectes

John Schreiber Fonds

  • CA CAC 28
  • Fonds
  • 1950-2001; predominant 1950-1996

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 outstanding example of the contribution to Canadian architecture and landscape architecture of a generation of “brilliant 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.

Schreiber, John, 1921-2002

Bobrow Architects fonds

  • CA CAC 74
  • Fonds
  • 1977-1998

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.

Bobrow Architects

Sigrun Bülow-Hübe

  • CA CAC 65
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1994

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

Bülow-Hübe, Sigrun, 1913-1994

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

  • CA CAC 68
  • Fonds
  • 1992-1994; undated

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]

Oberlander, Cornelia Hahn

Tolchinsky and Goodz

  • CA CAC 56
  • Fonds
  • 1988-1989

Fonds includes plans, perspectives and details of the Maison Ultramar Building on Avenue McGill College in Montreal are found in the archive. It also includes 7 photographs documenting the Maison Ultramar Building is also documented by photographs.

Le fonds comprend des plans, des perspectives et des détails de la Maison Ultramar sur l'avenue McGill College à Montréal, ainsi que 7 photographs de la Maison Ultramar.

Tolchinsky and Goodz

Arthur Erickson fonds

  • CA CAC 57
  • Fonds
  • between approximately 1946 and 1987

The fonds consists chiefly of architectural drawings, photographs, reports, and other records relating to Erickson's architectural projects in the Middle East. The materials document Erickson's involvement with building projects in the Middle East. Erickson's concern for bold masses, indigenous forms and contextuality can be seen in designs for the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia (1983) and the Abu Nuwas Conservation and Development Project in Baghdad, Iraq (1981). These designs are better understood as small-scale cities rather than buildings and reflect Erickson's humanist approach to the problems of Modern design. The majority of the architectural drawings in the fonds date from 1976 to 1986 and include 1,468 multimedia drawings. These include drawings for over a dozen Middle East competitions and projects such as designs for the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia (1983), King Faisal Air Force Academy and Mosque in Al Kharj (1980) and the Etisalat Headquarters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (1986). An additional seventeen drawings were created before 1950 and include nine drawings for an office building and eight drawings for an arts centre for Vancouver. These executed while a student at the McGill School of Architecture. The fonds also contains 102 photographs and 26 slides also dating between 1976 and 1986 as well as 4 three-dimensional scale models. These models are for the Islamic University of Madinah (1983), the Abu Nuwas Conservation and Development Project (1976), Sancst Science Halls (1981) and Etisalat Headquarters (1986). The fonds also contain competition submissions and project development documentation (1976-1987), bound in 43 volumes. Nine copies of three published books also included contain surveys of Erickson's work and career. The fonds also contains Erickson's correspondence and other papers.

Le fonds se compose principalement de dessins d'architecture, de photographies, de rapports et d'autres documents relatifs aux projets architecturaux d'Erickson au Moyen-Orient. Ces documents témoignent de l'implication d'Erickson dans des projets de construction au Moyen-Orient. L'intérêt d'Erickson pour les masses audacieuses, les formes indigènes et la contextualité se retrouve dans les projets de l'Université islamique de Médine en Arabie saoudite (1983) et du projet de conservation et de développement d'Abu Nuwas à Bagdad, en Irak (1981). Ces projets sont davantage considérés comme des villes à petite échelle que comme des bâtiments et reflètent l'approche humaniste d'Erickson face aux problèmes du design moderne. La majorité des dessins d'architecture du fonds datent de 1976 à 1986 et comprennent 1 468 dessins multimédias. Ils comprennent des dessins pour plus d'une douzaine de concours et de projets au Moyen-Orient, tels que le plan de l'Université islamique de Médine, en Arabie saoudite (1983), l'Académie de l'armée de l'air du roi Fayçal et la mosquée d'Al Kharj (1980) ainsi que les quartiers généraux d'Etisalat à Abou Dhabi, aux Émirats arabes unis (1986). Dix-sept autres dessins ont été réalisés avant 1950, dont neuf dessins pour un immeuble de bureaux et huit dessins pour un centre d'art à Vancouver. Ces dessins ont été exécutés alors qu'il était étudiant à l'école d'architecture de McGill. Le fonds contient également 102 photographies et 26 diapositives datant également de 1976 à 1986 ainsi que 4 maquettes en trois dimensions. Quatre projets sont documentés par des maquettes tridimensionnelles : l'Université islamique de Madinah (1983), le Projet de conservation et de développement d'Abu Nuwas (1976), les Sancst Science Halls (1981) et les quartiers généraux d'Etisalat (1986). Le fonds contient également des soumissions de concours et de la documentation sur le développement de projets (1976-1987), reliés en 43 volumes. Neuf exemplaires de trois livres publiés contiennent également des études sur le travail et la carrière d'Erickson. Le fonds contient également la correspondance et d'autres documents d'Erickson.

Erickson, Arthur, 1924-2009

Raymond Affleck

  • CA CAC 62
  • Fonds
  • 1947-1987

"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

Affleck, Raymond Tait, 1922-1989

Jerry Miller

  • CA CAC 89
  • Fonds
  • 1965-1985

The Jerry Miller Fonds is comprised of architectural drawings for the Churchill Falls Townsite in central Labrador, the restoration and conversion of several historic buildings in Montreal, a coast guard complex in Sorel, a residence for La Communauté des Soeurs de Charité de la Providence in Boucherville and the Canadian Embassy in Paris.

The design and construction of the new town of Churchill Falls was a $25 million project which included housing for 1500 permanent inhabitants grouped around a multi-use town centre comprising a school, hotel, commercial centre, gym, swimming pool, and other recreational facilities, all organized around a skylit interior concourse.

Construction of the permanent all-electrical community especially designed for northern living began in 1968. The new community marked a milestone in the ability of Canadians to adapt to northern conditions. It housed the permanent operating and maintenance staff of the huge Churchill Falls hydro-electric power development which was under construction a mile east of the townsite.

Adjoining a temporary trailer town for the families of construction personnel and the main construction camp for the hydro development, the town centre was built to serve the families in the temporary town and to supplement facilities in the main construction camp, as well as to serve the first permanent residents. The permanent and the temporary facilites were to function together as one community during the hydro project's construction. When the Churchill Falls development was completed, the temporary town and the construction camp remained as service areas into which the permanent community of more than 1000 residents grew in accordance with an overall master plan.

The availability of abundant and reliable hydro power offered unusual opportunities in planning the new community. Electricity was used for everything from keeping water mains from freezing to climate control of the town centre and heating of all dwellings.

Experience had shown that people living in relatively small, isolated centres who are in daily contact at work, want and need privacy in their homes. The Churchill Falls facilities were planned to bring residents together where community activity is concerned but to respect the need for domestic privacy. Great attention was also paid to accoustical details in the houses because of the effects of this noiseless environment. The notion of residents moving out-of-doors from home to town centre facilities was thought to reduce the senses of isolation and confinement.

Housing is divided between the multiple unit dwellings south of the town centre and single houses north of it. Five models of single family dwellings were built in the first year. A competition was held for the design of executive houses. Apartment buildings are two storeys with a basement. Garages are housed in separate structures as close to the street as possible to reduce snow shovelling.

Although the community was compact enough for residents to walk everywhere, planners acknowledged that the automobile was an essential accessory to most people so they provided for its use at Churchill Falls.

Open spaces were left every few houses for public play areas and as access ways between blocks from one street to the next. Lots are about 50 feet wide and running 130 to 140 feet deep to the next street.

The plans for the new community were originally prepared by Fiset Deschamps, architects and townplanners of Montreal and Quebec, in association with Beauchemin Beaton Lapointe, consulting engineers of Montreal, and Gorman Butler Associates Ltd., consulting engineers and architects of St. John's.

"New Town for Churchill Falls," Community Planning Review 18, no. 1 (1968): 18-21.

Drawings sheets for Churchill Falls bear the names of various creators in relation to the long history of the firm. Dates and named creators have been included in the description of the fonds in order to link the architects with specific stages of the project.

Miller, Jerry, active 1957-2005

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