| JAMES CECIL MCDOUGALL | CAC Accession No: 22 |
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DESCRIPTION A native of Trois-Rivières, PQ, James Cecil McDougall (1886-1959) attended McGill University where he received undergraduate degrees in engineering and architecture. During his career he worked as both an architect and an engineer, designing a number of houses, hospitals and university buildings. Among his public commissions, designs for the Montreal General Hospital and the Montreal Children's Hospital are noteworthy, as are his designs for the Redpath Library and additions to the Engineering Building at McGill University. He taught the Professional Practice course at the School of Architecture, McGill University ca. 1943. The drawings were given to the CAC by Robert Flemming.Two copies of the proposed scheme of development were donated by Kathleen McConnell Laing, and the photographs were given by John Bland. Architectural Drawings, 1929-30, 46 drawings. All but one of the drawings documents the design of a house for F. R. Whitall on Sunnyside Avenue in Westmount; the remaining drawing is a perspective of a proposal for the New University Club of Montreal on Redpath Street. Photographs, n.d., 1 album containing 53 large size photographs of interiors and exteriors of private mansions and country houses of Quebec and British Coloumbia, designed by McDougall. Noteworthy are the Currie and McDonald houses in Westmount.
Architectural Drawings, 1929. The Montreal General Hospital:2 copies: western division proposed scheme of development, central division proposed scheme of development. | |