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).
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 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 fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, press clippings and pamphlets which document all phases of Senator Crerar's varied adult career. An audio disc of a speech by Arthur Meighen of 'the greatest Englishman of History' is also included.
The fonds consists of correspondence and scrapbooks relating to political and business activities, campaign files documenting the many elections he took part in as candidate and member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and of the House of Commons for Kingston, photographs and subject files. Includes photographs of the military and life in the trenches during World War I.