Quebec City : architects, artisans, and builders / by A.J.H. Richardson [and others].

Title & Author:

Quebec City : architects, artisans, and builders / by A.J.H. Richardson [and others].

Publication:

Ottawa, Canada : History Division, National Museum of Man, 1984.

Description:

xi, 589 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm.

Series:

Mercury series / National Museum of Man. History, 0316-1900 ; no. 37 = Collection Mercure / Musée National de l'homme. Histoire ; no 37

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 576-583) and index.
"This first volume presents over four hundred biographies of the most significant architects, builders and suppliers of building materials association with the construction of the town ..." -- p. 12. "This biographical dictionary is limited to architects, builders, or others associated with building, who did important work in Quebec City, or who were born there and did significant work elsewhere. Further, to qualify for inclusion in this dictionary, a person must also be known to have been responsible for at least thirty specific projects (fifteen if he died before 1800) or four (two, if he died before 1700), buildings of exceptional importance or highly productive or pioneering in a building field." -- p. 13.
Text in English; introduction in English and French; summary in French.

Subject:

Architects Québec (Province) Québec Biography.
Artisans Québec (Province) Québec Biography.
Building Québec (Province) Québec Biography.
Architectes Québec (Province) Québec Biographies.
Artisans Québec (Province) Québec Biographies.
Construction Québec (Province) Québec Biographies.
Architects.
Artisans.
Building.
Buildings.
Québec (Province) Québec Buildings, structure, etc.
Québec (Québec) Buildings, structures, etc.
Québec (Québec) Constructions.
Québec Québec.
Canada, Quebec, Québec, Québec Biography.
Canada, Quebec, Québec, Québec Occupations.

Form/genre:

Collective biographies.
Biographies.

Added entries:

Richardson, A. J. H. (Arthur John Hampson), 1916-
Mercury series. History ; no. 37.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 102495
Call No.: ID PO8820 CAN; ID:85-B15963
Status: Available

Location: Library study room canada 102496
Call No.: PO8669 CAN NA747.Q4 REF CAHR; ID:85-B15963
Status: Available

Location: Library main canada 102494
Call No.: ID PO8820 GDER CAN; ID:85-B15963
Status: Available

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