Fonds consists of letters to his wife back in Canada, while travelling by ship to India, via Hawaii, Guam, and Manilla to establish factories in Bombay and Calcutta, during World War Two; prints and negatives documenting his trip to, and time in, India.
The typescript is that of a daily business diary kept by Kirk for the year 1933. As his company entered its fifth calendar year of the depression Kirk decided to keep a diary of his business experience with the purpose of looking back at the diary in later years to garner any useful or interesting information. He writes in the foreword to the diary that he hopes that his "effort to daily summarize [his] experience will be an aid to clearer thought."
Fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports relating to the forerunner to the Centre, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Writing Across the Curriculum (1984-1985); correspondence and other material related to the Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop (November 1984); Annual Report (1986-1987).
Broadcast on Radio Station CRCO, Ottawa, on 1934 Feb. 10 dealing with the perspective and interest of Canadian History, and the important role of Archives and archivists in preserving such history.