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TGH Planning Report 1968
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 2-2.25 · Subseries · [1968?]
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of an eight-volume report jointly prepared for the Office of the Executive Director by Woods Gordon Co., Planning Consultants and Mathers and Haldenby, Architects. The report outlines plans for the “modernization and expansion of the Toronto General Hospital”, including the construction of new facilities for the TGH School of Nursing and Nurses’ Residence.

Sub-series consists of 8 files:

2.25.1 Volume I: Summary Programme
2.25.2 Volume II: Architectural Planning
2.25.3 Volume III: In-Patient Facilities
2.25.4 Volume IV: Medical Services
2.25.5 Volume V: Hospital Services
2.25.6 Volume VII: Teaching Facilities
2.25.7 Volume VIII: Clinical Sciences Facilities
2.25.8 Volume VI: Clinic Facilities

Toronto General Hospital. Office of the President
Mathers and Haldenby fonds
CA ON00009 C 315 · Fonds · 1872-1991

Fonds consists of records created and received by the Toronto architectural firm of Mathers & Haldenby, documenting projects with which the firm was involved.

Major architectural projects documented in these records include Queen's Park Phase II, Upper Canada College and various hospital buildings in Toronto; various buildings at the University of Toronto; alterations to the Parliament Building and the Supreme Court Building in Ottawa; the National Library and Archival building in Ottawa; various buildings for Queen's University and the Royal Military College in Kingston; and buildings for Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Other architectural projects documented in the fonds include residences, commercial and industrial buildings, cultural and academic institutions, hospital buildings, and office buildings, mostly located in Toronto but also throughout Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Western Canada, Australia and the Caribbean.

Records in the fonds consist primarily of architectural drawings by Mathers & Haldenby or firms with which they collaborated, as well as mechanical drawings by contracted firms, and reference drawings from architects who had previously worked on some of the buildings. In addition to original drawings and prints, fonds includes reproductions of drawings on aperture cards and in microfilm format.

Fonds also includes specifications, project proposals, one firm prospectus, photographs of buildings the firm worked on, and one staff photograph.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+C+315?SESSIONSEARCH

Mathers and Haldenby (firm)