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Horace Llewellyn Seymour fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[ca. 1902-1940].

Reference:

R2963-0-3-E, MG30-B93

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Architectural and technical drawings, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98139

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Horace Llewellyn Seymour fonds
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Fonds includes:

3 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[ca. 1902-1940].

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2.8 m of textual records.
260 photographs : b&w.
45 architectural drawings.
220 maps.
11 technical drawings.
1 atlas.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of textual records, chiefly from the period 1930-1940, with some documents from the 1920's and scattered items dating back as far as 1906. The records fall into several major groups, including project files relating to cities and areas where Seymour served as a planning consultant, largely Ontario cities such as Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, and Fort William, but also including St.John, N.B. and areas in Alberta. These files include correspondence, reports, proposals, clippings, and smaller maps and plans; files consisting largely of correspondence and clippings relating to planning and housing in cities where Seymour was not employed, notably Ottawa, his home in the later 1930's; articles and broadcast texts by Seymour, plus correspondence and informational material dealing with his university lectures; articles by others on housing and town planning, and copies of planning and housing laws, with copies of related reports and clippings.

The fonds contains photographs of urban landscapes, streetscapes and houses, many which were used by Seymour for his lectures. Slides depict maps, plans and architectural drawings.

Fonds consists of maps, plans and drawings showing traffic patterns, utilities, recreation areas, farmstead plans, school grounds and residential developments, predominantly in 1930-1940, pertaining to planning and development in various towns and cities in New Brunswick, principally St. John; Ontario, principally Fort William and Ottawa; Alberta; and to Little Rock, Arkansas. Fonds also contain maps, plans and achitectural drawings and diagrams reflecting studies into sunlight at different latitudes and corner cutting (street), and relate to planning and development in various Canadian cities, principally Ottawa, although there are examples for Saint John, New Brunswick; Edmonton, Beverly, and Camrose, Alberta; and Larder Lake, Ontario.

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Seymour, Horace L., 1882-1940

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Seymour, Horace L., 1882-1940 : Horace Llewellyn Seymour (1882-1940), town planner, was born in Bereford, Ont. and graduated in engineering from the University of Toronto. After working as a surveyor for the federal government, he joined the Town Planning Branch of the Commission of Conservation in 1914. In 1922, he produced the plan for the city of Waterloo and assisted Thomas Adams with one for Kitchener, the first comprehensive city plan in Canada.

From 1926 to 1929, Seymour worked for the U.S. firm of Harland Bartholomew, supervising the plan for Vancouver. From 1929 to 1932, he worked as Director of Planning for Alberta, offering advice on the subject to all municipalities. He spent the rest of his life as planning consultant to such cities as Sault Ste. Marie, Cornwall, and Fort William, Ont., and St. John, N.B.

Seymour lectured in planning at the University of Toronto in 1921-23, at the University of Alberta in the early 1930's, and in Ottawa through the University of Toronto Extension Department in the later 1930's. He also gave many radio talks on city planning and was a frequent contributor to periodicals.

See also: The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Paper) The finding aid is a file list. Seymour's original filing arrangement has been preserved with minor corrections. There is also an alphabetical list of chief topics, cities, and correspondence, adapted from a card file kept by Seymour. MSS1429 (90: Open)

Cartographic material, architectural, technical drawings, 122 glass slides (Paper) Itemized listing are available in the main reference room, indexed by building type and architect. 83403/37; 85603/58. (90: Open)

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General note:

The 122 lantern slides which depict maps, plans and architectural drawings, pertaining to planning and development in Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia were accessioned by the Cartographic and Architectural section and form part of accession 83403/37.
Textual records were acquired in 1975 from Miss Marion Seymour of Ottawa, Ont.
Original photographs were acquired from Marion Seymour with textual records, from Horace L. Seymour of Ottawa, Ont. in ca. 1982-1983.
Copies of 25 photographs, 1920-1940, that are views of Ottawa, Ont., and Montreal, Que. (accession 1975-196 NPC) were loaned to the Library and Archives Canada and copied. The originals were returned to lender Marion Seymour, Ottawa, Ont.

Location of originals note:

Copies of 25 photographs, 1920-1940, which are views of Ottawa, Ont., and Montreal, Que. (accession 1975-196 NPC): Originals loaned by Marion Seymour, Ottawa, Ontario, ca. 1975.

Availability of other formats note:

A map of the City of Kitchener, 1923, found in vol. 7, has been digitized., Several items in accession 83403/37 have been microfilmed: NMC49142 -- NMC49152; NMC49154 -- NMC49155. Please consult lower level descriptions.
Subject heading:

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Ottawa (Ont.) - City planning

Housing - Canada, 1906-1940

City planning - Canada, 1906-1940

City planning - Ontario, 1906-1940

City planning - Alberta, 1906-1940

Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) - City planning, 1906-1940

Sudbury (Ont.) - City planning, 1906-1940

Fort William (Ont.) - City planning, 1906-1940

Saint John (N.B.) - City planning, 1906-1940
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1975-196 NPC
1979-083 NPC
1983-042 NPC
1985-285 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-B93

Other accession no.:

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83403/37 CA
85603/58 CA
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 B 93] 1--13

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1429] 114

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Copy negative [83403/37 CA]

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

C-080418;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

C-080442;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]
Glass plate negatives cannot be transported.

Cartographic material

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]
Glass plate negatives cannot be transported.

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Original photographs: No donor restrictions. Copyright: Expired. Credit: Name of photographer / Library and Archives Canada / Copy negative no.
Copies of 25 photographs, 1920-1940, that are views of Ottawa, Ont., and Montreal, Que. (accession 1975-196 NPC): National Archives of Canada does not provide copies; they must be obtained from the lender. Copyright: expired.
Cartographic material, architectural, technical drawings: (accessions 83403/37, 85603/58): No restrictions. Credit: Library and Archives Canada.

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