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Finding Aid - Plans for 's Model Barn for Sir William C Van Horne (MC 504)

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Charlotte County Archives 123 Frederick Street St. Andrews Canada E5B 1Z1 Telephone: 506-529-4248 Email: [email protected] http://www.ccarchives.ca http://search.canbarchives.ca/index.php/plans-for--model-barn-for-sir-william-c-van-horne Plans for Canada's Model Barn for Sir William C Van Horne

Table of contents

Summary information ...... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch ...... 3 Scope and content ...... 3 Access points ...... 4

Charlotte County Archives Page 2 MC 504 Plans for Canada's Model Barn for Sir William C Van Horne

Summary information

Repository: Charlotte County Archives Title: Plans for Canada's Model Barn for Sir William C Van Horne ID: MC 504 Date: 1890s (date of creation) Date: 1890s (date of creation) Material specific 1' : 1/4 " details [cartographic]: Physical description: 20 sheets

Administrative history / Biographical sketch

Note Edward Maxwell was a Canadian architect. The son of Edward John Maxwell, a lumber dealer in Montreal, by his marriage to Johan MacBean, Maxwell graduated from the High School of Montreal at the age of fourteen and was apprenticed to the firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge at Boston. In 1891 the firm was instructed to design a new building for the Montreal Board of Trade, and Maxwell returned home to Montreal to supervise its construction, helped by having good relations with influential members of the Board. In 1892, the jeweller Henry Birks hired him to design a new shop in Phillips Square. Maxwell also designed several stations and hotels for the , including the West Vancouver station and the McAdam station. In 1899 Edward was summoned to Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, by Sir William Van Horne, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, to assist with architectural work on his summer home 'Covenhoven' on Minister's Island. In 1899, Edward Maxwell bought the Bar Road land and built a modest summer house, which he named "Tillietudlem", an homage to his Scottish heritage.

Scope and content

Plans for Canada’s Model Barn for Sir William C Van Horne. Includes: basement and ground floor plans; longitudinal, transverse, long, engine house, hay mow, sheep and poultry house, and silo floor cross- sections; north, south, west, front, rear, and end elevations; Architect Edward Maxwell, Montreal. (Robert Stevenson).

Charlotte County Archives Page 3 MC 504 Plans for Canada's Model Barn for Sir William C Van Horne

Notes

Title notes

Other notes • Publication status: Published • Accompanying material: acc.2020.262

Access points

• Van Horne, Sir William Cornelius • Van Horne, Sir William Cornelius (subject) • Edward Maxwell (subject) • Architectural drawing (documentary form) • Agriculture (subject) • Buildings and structures (subject)

Collection holdings

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