ABSTRACT
The Edmonton Public Library: An Architectural
History of a Carnegie Library Building
Percy Johnson
1994
This thesis examines the influences involved in the designing of the Edmonton Public
Library building. Completed in 1923 the building was designed by the Edmonton, Alberta
based architectural firm of George Heath MacDonald and Herbert Alton Magoon. The roles
played by the patron and specifically the librarian E.L. Hill and the Carnegie Corporation
of New York are described. Other factors that directed the design including the access to
builders and building materials in Edmonton are also noted. This thesis contains an
appendix in the form of a catalogue raisonné that lists the projects that Messrs.
MacDonald and Magoon were involved with in Edmonton between 1904 and 1941. It is intended
that the model established by this thesis can be used to continue the research on the
influences affecting the architecture of Western Canada.
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