Contents are estimated at approximately 150,000 plans, drawings, models, photographs of buildings, slides, textual documents. The acquisition policy of the CAC focuses on architectural projects associated with the University, with the evolution of the McGill Campus, and the city of Montreal. The CAC's particular interest is in the evolution of architectural practice, and in the impact of architectural education. The policy covers any type of material related to these two interest groups. The acquisition policy pertains exclusively to gifts to the University.
Nothing is acquired by purchase.
Irena Murray, General Editor. Montreal, Canadian Architecture Collection, BlackaderLauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University, 1986. Irena Murray, General Editor. Canadian Architecture Collection, BlackaderLauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University, 1987. Irena Murray, General Editor, Montreal, McGill University, 1990.