McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Percy Ellicott McDonald Fonds
Fonds
72 cm of textual records and photographs
A native of Hamilton, Percy McDonald graduated from McGill in 1913 in Civil Engineering but never practiced this profession. He became a war photographer with W.J. Johnson during the First World War. In 1923, McDonald earned a degree in dentistry from the University of Toronto and practiced dentistry until the outbreak of World War II, when he again took up military photography.
McDonald retained his lecture notes for every course he took at McGill, together with laboratory notebooks and student projects. There are also a few notes from his dental course. Photographs concentrate on student outings and entertainments, engineering field trips, family portraits, and the Quebec Bridge disaster.
Originals, Printed Materials and Photographs