The John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection is a unit of McGill University Library specializing in the conservation and curation of Canadian architectural archives. Its mandate is to document the past and present work of architects who studied or taught at the McGill University School of Architecture .
4-427: The collection was created by John Bland, then director of McGill School of Architecture, in 1974. To date, it contains more than 100 archival fonds documenting renowned Canadian architects such as Edward Maxwell , Moshe Safdie or Harold Lea Fetherstonhaugh through their correspondence, architectural drawings , plans and photographs concerning their realizations. Architectural historian France Gagnon-Pratte used
8-666: A new store in Montreal's Phillips Square . Maxwell also designed several stations and hotels for the Canadian Pacific Railway , including the West Vancouver station (1897) and the McAdam station (1900). In 1899, he designed a country house for Louis-Joseph Forget at Senneville, Quebec , a good example of his domestic work. In 1902, he went into partnership with his younger brother, William Sutherland Maxwell , who had studied at
12-626: The High School of Montreal at the age of fourteen and was apprenticed to the firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge in Boston . In 1891, the firm was instructed to design a new building for the Montreal Board of Trade . Maxwell returned home to Montreal to supervise its construction, helped by having good relations with influential members of the Board. In 1892, the jeweller Henry Birks hired Maxwell to design
16-492: The collection in writing her 1987 book Country Houses for Montrealers, 1892-1924 : the architecture of E. and W.S. Maxwell , after which she donated her working notes and photographs. Edward Maxwell Edward Maxwell (31 December 1867 – 14 November 1923) was a prominent Canadian architect. The son of Edward John Maxwell, a lumber dealer in Montreal , by his marriage to Johanna MacBean, Maxwell graduated from
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