The Fritz-Green fonds is comprised of material created and/or collected and collated by Paul Fritz. The records predominantly pertain to the history of the Delta region that were gathered, acquired, and purchased by, or given and gifted to, Paul Fritz from a variety of sources during his time spent researching and writing about the area. The fonds also contains a significant amount of material which documents various Green family members (Fritz's maternal side) as well as textual records created in the course of Fritz's own personal activity and endeavours. The fonds consists of of three sous-fonds and one collection: Paul Fritz sous-fonds; Green family sous-fonds; Delta Region Collection; and Stevens family sous-fonds.
The collection consists of specifications, architectural drawings and photographs of Diesel Locomotives built by the Canadian Locomotive Company in Kingston.
The fonds consists of both textual and photographic material created and distributed by Freedman Company Limited pertaining mainly to the advertising, promotion and sales of their clothing lines. Included in the business records is material relating to the trademarks owned and patented by the company. There is also some earlier family material relating to some of the founding members of the company. The fonds has been arranged alphabetically within the following series: Business material and Family material.
The fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, press clippings, and subject files. Includes drafts of Queen's University, Volume II, 1916-1961: book, and draft manuscript of his study on imperial defence and naval policy, 1887-1914, files relating to his work as Vice Principal Academic at Queen's University and his graduate students. The papers also contain some original files, 1911-1913, of the pages of L.P. Brodeur, Minister of Marine and Fisheries. There is also an extensive collection of subject files relating to William Lyon Mackenzie King. This material includes copies of most of the memoranda prepared for use by the official biographers of Mackenzie King.
The fonds consists of subject files including his time as a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service, and his escape from Stalag 3 (Holzminden, Germany) by tunnelling underground; photographs including family and family events, World War One, and his time as an engineer working in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The fonds consists of phjotocopied correspondence with Mrs. Grove, Watson Kirkconnell and Desmond Pacey, and an original manuscript draft of novel about Abe Spalding, which was later revised and published as 'Fruits of the Earth', 1933. The microfilm contains drafts of several of Grove's manuscripts including, Fruits of the Earth, The Master of The Mill, The Weatherhead Fortunes, The White Range Line House and Consider Her Ways.
