Initial Master Plan - continued

	Massey plans (1954), three plan options superimposed over a topographic base map.
	Carleton University Library, Special Collections and Archives

Information, which would shed light on the process of preparing specific planning schemes during the spring and summer of 1954, is incomplete. The examples of rough or draft plans shown to the left are only a few of many, which survive in either graphic or written form. None, however, are annotated sufficiently to reconstruct a coherent sequence or process.

The documentation held by the National Archives of Canada is extensive, thanks to the donations which have been made; but these records do not fully retrace all aspects of the planning. Many gaps remain.

The Massey (attributed) sketch plans (1954) are an interesting conceptual bridge from Balharrie's plans of the previous year and the approved master plan from later that year. The three options delineated in Massey's plans also follow the principle of mostly interconnected buildings, here enclosing one or more exterior courts. Both these schemes and the 1953 proposals located the buildings to share the focal point between the intermediate plateau.

In June 1954, at the fifth meeting of the ad hoc committee on building, several site plan schemes were presented. It was then agreed that the group of architects which had been brought together to prepare those plans should form a contractual association with Carleton officials. That association was to be known as the Architectural Associates for Carleton College (later University). It was initially composed of: Watson Balharrie, Hart Massey, Leon Dirassar, Eric Arthur, John Bland, A.J. Hazelgrove, and Campbell Merret.