Collection search - Harold Milne fonds [textual record, graphic material, architectural drawing]
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Harold Milne fonds [textual record, graphic material, architectural drawing]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:6 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Architectural, technical drawings (Paper) Please consult lower level descriptions. Finding aid is a detailed listing. Milne, William Harold 79003/31. (90: Open) -
Record information Harold Milne fonds [textual record, graphic material, architectural drawing]
Date:1913-1974.Reference:R4971-0-7-E, MG30-B121Type of material:Textual material, Photographs, Architectural and technical drawingsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:102449Date(s):1913-1974.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:27 cm of textual records.
447 photographs b&w.
29 technical drawings.
1 portfolio (14 plates) photographic reproductions 22 cm.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of the following series of textual records: Shipbuilding and design, general, 1913-1969, (volume 1); World War II Shipbuilding Program, 1941-1943, 1945, (volume 1-2); W.H. Milne, articles and correspondence, 1939-1974, (volume 2).
The fonds also contains photographs of ships in Canadian drydocks [ca. 1920]; and ships and river vessels, designed by firms German and Milne and Milne, Gilmore and German, [ca. 1918-1947].
The fonds also contains a collection of designs for warships, lake steamers, ferries, frigates, and ice breakers, 1917-1967.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Milne, Harold, 1898-1974 : W. Harold Milne, P.Eng., was born in England and received his education and apprenticeship training in England and Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1917.
He served as a hull surveyor for the Imperial Munitions Board, 1917-19, acted as a naval draughtsman and designer for several firms in the postwar period, and was Operating Manager of the Saint John Drydock and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. and later of Lambert and German, Naval Architects (known subsequently as German and Milne and as Milne, Gilmore and German), a firm which designed vessels for the Canadian Government, RCN and private companies. During World War II Milne was Technical Advisor to the Director General of the Shipbuilding Branch of the Department of Munitions and Supply. He retired in 1960.Additional information:General note:Received in 1979 from Mrs. Eleanor M. Milne, Wakefield, Qué.Subject heading:Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG30-B121 -
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