Item 4 - E.P. Fetherstonhaugh diary and lectures, 1914-1910

McGill graduate Harold Featherstonhaugh became an architect renowned for such Montreal landmarks as the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul and the Birks building which now houses the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies. He was a lieutenant in the Artillery Field Regiment before World War I; he then served in the 39th Battery during the war and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. Earlier, he had worked with Edward and William Sutherland Maxwell, then in 1923 after the war, he became a partner in an architectural firm with J.C. McDougall; in 1934 he began working on his own until 1955.

An 1899 graduate from McGill University in electrical engineering, Edward P. Featherstonhaugh (pronounced “Fanshaw”) became the first professor of electrical engineering in Manitoba when the University of Manitoba established the department there in 1909. He married Ruth Minna Harrington, one of Sir William Dawson’s granddaughters, in 1908. After her death in 1913, he enlisted for overseas duty in World War I and followed officer training; he rose from lieutenant with the Canadian engineers to captain, then major in 1918. He earned the Military Cross in 1917. After the war he returned to Winnipeg to marry Margaret Adele Bain in 1924. He continued to teach there until his retirement.