The fonds consists of papers that cover Griffiths career in radio and television. The is no personal material. The subject files, 1970-1982 (one metre) were assembled, arranged and described by Mrs. Nancy Griffiths, his wife. The arrangement is chronological. The CRTC material contains reports, speeches, press releases, position papers etc. of both the Canadian Radio and Television Commission and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Griffiths kept material on his interests and numerous items have routing slips with comments by colleagues, especially Roy Faibish, a fellow radio and television executive, who served also in the C.R.T.C. Some of the material is annotated. Annual government reports that were unannotated, were listed and transferred (with some books) to the Queen's Library. Work Mr. Griffiths did on British and Foreign Broadcasting resulted in an unpublished report. Publications of organizations in the radio and television fields have been arranged by organization, not subject. The clipping files (.5 metres) from 1960 to 1985 are a rich source. Where Mrs. Griffiths identified and labelled them, the listings have been kept. The sound recordings mostly pertain to licensing matters.
Fonds consists of a copy of "A Tradition of Caring", a promotional video produced by Crawley Films for Kingston General Hospital; transcribed copy of a letter from William Osler to President Remsem of Johns Hopkins University, talking on the subject of "whole time clinical professors"(11 September 1911); and a copy of 'A Memoir' entitled, "November 22nd 1962: Future of Queen's Medical School: Resuscitate or Bury it?".
The fonds consists of correspondence and subject files for the period during which Smith was member of the Ontario Legislature and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. The files cover contemporary political issues, especially health-related ones.
Fonds consists of microfilm copies of correspondence and other papers of Rev. John Stuart, Sir James Stuart, Andrew Stuart, Sheriff John Stuart from the Archives of Ontario as well as a small amount of original material comprised of correspondence, including some to Bishop White of Philadelphia.
Fonds consists of deeds and other legal documents relating to property holdings in Kingston, Ontario; correspondence, photographs, and news clippings; autographed copy, with many signatures of his classmates, of Maxwell Strange's Tricolor '28 Yearbook.
