Fonds A.D. Thacker

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• Fonds: Fonds A.D. Thacker, 1913-1944

Personnes et institutions

• Alfred Dennis Thacker (archive creator)

Titre

Fonds A.D. Thacker

Dates de création

1913-1944

Classification

• archives

Niveau de description archivistique

Fonds

Collation

• 34 drawings
• 16 reprographic copies
• 12 photographic materials
• 0.08 l.m. of textual records
• 4 books

Présentation du contenu

The fonds illustrates A.D. Thacker's work as an architect and primarily consists of drawings depicting structures that Thacker designed after beginning his own practice in 1926 until his death in 1938, but also includes work from 1913. The drawings depict structures located in Quebec as well as Halifax, Nova Scotia. The fonds also contains documentation of the drawings, including reprographic copies, photographs, and some textual material.

Numéro de réference

AP004

Mode de classement

The fonds consists of one series, Project and proposal documentation 1913-1938, which is arranged according to project.

Note biographique

On January 12th, 1879, Alfred Dennis (A.D.) Thacker was born in Walsall, a county of Staffordshire, England, to father Richard Edgar Thacker and mother Emma (née Fox) Thacker. He immigrated to Canada in 1910, after receiving his initial training as an architect in Birmingham.

Thacker was married to Constance Margaret Ritchie two years after he arrived in Canada, on June 5th, 1912. They had one son and two daughters.

While living in Canada, Thacker worked with many firms in Montreal and Toronto. He was first employed with Ross and Macfarlane (now Ross and MacDonald) in Montreal before moving on to Chapman and McGiffen in Toronto, and then returning to Montreal to work with McVicar and Heriot, Brown and Vallance, and David R. Brown. Thacker began his own practice in 1926 and subsequently designed many churches and private homes.

The Christian Science Church is one of his most famous works, along with churches completed for the United Church of Canada at Hampstead, Chaughnawaga and Dundee.

His designs for the new choir stalls and chancel furniture in the All Saints Cathedral in Halifax were awarded an Honorary Mention from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Alfred Dennis Thacker passed away on September 26th, 1938 and was buried in Chambly Quebec.

Conditions d’accès

• Access by appointment only.

Conditions de réproduction

• Contact the CCA for copyright information and permission to reproduce (reproductions@cca.qc.ca).

Modalités d’entrée

• Gift of Naomi Morehouse on March 1, 1983.

Historique de la conservation

The CCA acquired the A.D. Thacker fonds in 1983.

Notes de l’archiviste

• Arrangement of the fonds was completed by Bérengere Gagné in 1986. The paper finding aid was completed by Bérengere Gagné in 1986. Records were created by Kelli Babcock and Jennifer Préfontaine based on information within the paper finding aid and were completed in April 2011.

Mention de crédit

When citing the collection as a whole, use the citation: A.D. Thacker fonds, Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. When citing specific collection material, please refer to the object’s specific credit line.

Langue et écriture des documents

English

Sources complémentaires

• The publication The Studio: an illustrated magazine of Fine & Applied Arts. Vol. 40, no. 168, Mar. 15, 1907 has an article on pg. 125-126 on one of Thacker's projects "prize design for cottage at Bredons Norton."