Fonds Ernest Cormier, 1892-1980.

Main entry:

Cormier, Ernest, 1885-1980.

Title & Author:

Fonds Ernest Cormier, 1892-1980.

Description:

44,004 items.

Restrictions:

Access by appointment only.

Summary:

Student, pedagogical and personal documents and professional and project files comprising 30,000 drawings and reproductions (conceptual, presentation, development, construction, shop, survey drawings, sketches, watercolors and paintings); 14,000 photographs (black and white and colour; negatives on glass and film; slides); 93 linear meters of documents (correspondence and personal files; pedagogical files; project files; documentation, brochures and catalogues); 4 models; furniture, works of art, tools and equipment. Principal projects: annex of the Palais de justice de Montréal (1920-1926); principal pavilion, Université de Montréal (1924-1943); personal residence of Ernest Cormier, 1418, avenue des Pins ouest, Montréal (1930-1931); Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa (1938-1950); National Press of Canada, Hull (1950-1958); Grand Séminaire de Québec, Québec (1957-1960). An exhibition catalogue "Ernest Cormier et l'Université de Montréal" has been published (CCA, 1990).

Biographical note:

Ernest Cormier (1885-1980) was born in Montréal, Québec. B. SC.A., École Polytechnique de Montréal (1906); École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (1908-1914), diplômmé in 1917; Jarvis Studentship, Royal Institute of British Architects, Rome (1914-1916). Engineer, Dominion Bridge, Montréal (1906-1908); Engineer, Considère, Pelnard et Caquot, Paris (1917-1918). In private practice, architect and engineer, Montréal (1918-1974).

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Subject:

Architecture Canada.
Architecture Québec (Province)
Architecture Ontario.
Architecture.
Canada.
Ontario.
Québec.
Courthouse annexes (building divisions) Canada Québec (Province) Montréal.
University buildings Canada Québec (Province) Montréal.
Houses Canada Québec (Province) Montréal.
Courthouses Canada Ontario Ottawa.
Government office buildings Canada Québec (Province) Hull.
Theological seminaries Canada Québec (Province) Québec.

Form/genre:

Black-and-white photographs.
Brochures.
Color photographs.
Correspondence.
Drawings.
Equipment.
Files (document groupings)
Furniture.
Architectural models.
Reproductions.
Slides (photographs)
Tools.
Works of art.
Project files.
Fonds (collections)

Holdings:

Location: Library archives collection 259774
Call No.: AP001
Status: Available

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