Typescripts of a biographical summary of Kenneth R. Wilson written by Nora Wilson, his daughter, for use in video documentary. Film is available online and on DVD. The film was created for the Canadian Business Press.

See 2023.11, Box 1, File 2 for the video cassette.

For viewing purposes, please prioritize use of the DVD over the video cassette. For access to the digitized version, please contact the archivist.

Item is a black ink drawing of cartoon heads of members of the Press Gallery including Kenneth Wilson, Financial Post.    

Consists of newspaper clippings, photocopies of articles and pages of magazines of articles written by Wilson.  Topics include the Royal Tour of 1939 to Canada, The St. Lawrence Seaway, price control in Canada, and an article about Switzerland.  The articles are from publications including Chatelaine Magazine, The Financial Post, Current Affairs for the Canadian Forces and The Rotarian. 

Consists of newspaper clippings related to speaking engagements given by Kenneth R. Wilson, as well as articles related to awards he received for journalism, his move to the Maclean Publishing Company. Articles are from The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, The Brantford Expositor, etc. 

See File 3 for copies of the speeches that are referenced in the above articles.

Typescripts and published copies of speeches given by Kenneth R. Wilson at various events and conferences to groups and associations including The Rotary Club, The Empire Club of Canada, the Purchasing Agents Association of Toronto, the CBC, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, among many others. 

Typescripts/transcripts of The National Forum and The Citizen's Forum in which Kenneth R. Wilson participated. The forums were broadcast on CBC radio and the subjects were: "Is Canada Over-Governed?," "What Economic Agreements are Needed?," "Has Big Business Too Much Power," and "St. Lawrence Seaway: What does it mean to Canada and the U.S.A?"

Reports were written by Kenneth R. Wilson to his colleagues/boss at the Financial Post about trips/assignments that he went on.  Report titles are "West Trip, September 1950" and "European Trip, 1951."   There is also a typed letter to his family about his assignment covering the Royal Tour in 1939.

Consists of newspaper clippings and photocopies of articles about Kenneth Wilson's death from publications including The Ottawa Evening Citizen, The Sarnia Canadian Observer, The Edmonton Journal, The Daily Spectator, The Toronto Daily Star, The London Free Press, etc.  Also contains a typescript and a reprint of an article from The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science by K.W.Taylor about Kenneth Wilson's life.

Consists of letters of condolence written to Ruth, Kenneth R. Wilson's wife as well as several letters addressed to Floyd S. Chalmers, Wilson's boss.

Typescript of "A Tribute to Kenneth Ramsay Wilson" by Rev. Norman Coll, at the Memorial Service held in Parkdale United Church, Ottawa, January 26, 1952  

Consists of published tributes to Kenneth R. Wilson in Maclean Hunter's Newsweekly magazine. 

Consists of notices about award winners, photographs and a card about why Kenneth R. Wilson is honored.   

Published in The Financial Post, January 26, 1952  

Possibly and address or speech.  

By Kenneth R. Wilson. Possibly an address or a speech.   

The typescript at one point might have been glued in the scrapbook.   

Records are restricted until 2052.  For access please contact the Chief Librarian.   

Includes newspaper clippings announcing their marriage.   

See description in photo database.   

Typed on Canadian Business Press letterhead.    

Telegrams sent from ship and England.   

This scrapbook belonged to Nora Ruth Wilson, the daughter of Kenneth R. Wilson and Ruth Wilson nee Duggan.  The scrapbook contains 2 class photographs but the remainder is cut out images from magazines and newspaper clippings, particularly related to the end of the war.  

Scrapbook contains items from Kenneth R. Wilson's school days at Rutland House, Brantford Collegiate Institute and Victoria College as well as items from his career as a journalist and editor. Includes report cards, photographs, ephemera (memorabilia) from dances, events, newspaper clippings, etc.   

The scrapbook is fragile and is currently restricted for preservation reason, however a scan has been made and is available online.

Scrapbook contains 51 b&w photographs

Notebook belonging to Wilson's great-grandfather, James Wilson, a Church of Scotland minister in Gamrie, Banffshire, Scotland. Contains notes made by James throughout the 1780s including notes on moral philosophy used in sermon preparation, rents paid by farmers who used the croft connected to the parish manse for grazing, details of battles in which his sons George and Hugh took part between 1755 and 1768, accounts of gifts and other transactions.

Currently in conservation for treatment and rehousing.

A short tribute video dedicated to Kenneth R. Wilson. The video is also available online and on DVD.

See 2016.05, Box 1, File 12 for the script and DVD.

For viewing purposes, please prioritize use of the DVD over the video cassette. For access to the digitized version, please contact the archivist.

Address by Kenneth R. Wilson, Ottawa Editor of the Financial Post, to the Canadian Club of Toronto, April 3, 1944.

Articles written by Kenneth R. Wilson for the Financial Post while in London. Includes three articles:

• "See New Plan Air Raid War", Feb. 26, 1944
• "Woolton Favours Expansionist Policy", Feb. 26, 1944
• "War Top Job for Virile Britons", 1944

Contains newspaper clippings and photocopies of articles about Kenneth Wilson's death from publications including Saturday Night, The United Church Observer, Brantford Exposition, The Evening Citizen, The Journal, and unidentified publications. Also includes a memorial article published in the Financial Post thirty years after Wilson’s death.

Program for the Kenneth R. Wilson Memorial Award for Journalism Graduates presented to a student graduating in Journalism at Carleton College. Wilson was a guest lecturer to fourth-year journalist students at Carleton a few days before his death.

Contains a handwritten speech for the Kenneth R. Wilson Awards and a typed speech for the Kenneth R. Wilson memorial dinner. Includes reproductions of two images of Nora Wilson at the 50^th anniversary of the presentation of the Kenneth R. Wilson Award. Nora is pictured with her brother David Wilson in both images.

Kenneth R. Wilson’s school reports.

A typed account of members of the Wilson family dating back to James Wilson and continuing until Kenneth R. Wilson’s generation. Possibly written by Kenneth R. Wilson.

Pamphlets relating to the church and village of Barnburgh, England. Kenneth R. Wilson was born in St. Peter’s Church, Barnburgh. Includes:

• The Barnburgh Legend: The Cat and Man, 1931
• The Cresacre Treasure: The Church and Village of Barnburgh, [196-?]

Contains a letter to Kenneth R. Wilson from DW and letters from Rev. Kenneth J. Cameron, Clerk of the Presbytery of Turriff, to Wilson with information on the Church of Gamrie, with an attached image of the church. Also includes a typed copy of the Wilson family genealogy by Mary Wilson Hendon. Includes one photograph.

File contains a marriage certificate for Kenneth R. Wilson’s parents.

File contains a birth certificate for Leonora Wilson, Kenneth R. Wilson’s sister.

File contains a letter from O.G. Clarke, Records Clerk, Ontario Department of Public Welfare, to Norman Wilson, Kenneth R. Wilson’s father, regarding his birth certificate. Includes a card with an image of St. Andrew’s and St. Columba’s Church in Bombay where Norman was baptized.

File contains a memorial notice on the death of George Ramsay Wilson, Kenneth R. Wilson’s grandfather.

File contains a handwritten document by Mary Wilson containing genealogy notes on the Wilson family. Also includes a typed copy by Norman Wilson.

File contains a memorial program for Lord Fenner Brockway, a British politician and anti-war activist. Brockway’s mother, Frances Abbey, was the sister of Kate Abbey, Kenneth R. Wilson’s mother.

File contains the memoirs of Maria McKenzie Wilson, Kenneth R. Wilson’s paternal grandmother. Also includes letters to Nora Wilson from the University of Cambridge and the British Library (2004), which also hold manuscript copies of the memoir.

File contains typed notes on Maria McKenzie Wilson by her grandson, Michael De Bock Porter. Porter is the son of Doris Wilson, Kenneth R. Wilson’s aunt.

File contains:

• Holmewood School (1885-1985) centennial booklet, 1985
• Invitation to Annual Speech and Prize Giving Evening at Woodside Park School (formerly Holmewood School), 1999
• Handwritten notes by Nora Wilson

File contains a book written by Mildred E. Wilson, Kenneth R. Wilson’s aunt, summarizing her credo on the essence of teaching. The book is inscribed to Nora Wilson, who received it from her aunt Gertrude in 1955. The file also includes a reprint of an article from The Times Educational Supplement with a review of the book (1954).

File contains records relating to St. Christopher’s College of Education, a school founded in Madras (Chennai), India by Nora Brockway, Kenneth R. Wilson’s cousin, to train women teachers. Includes a letter from Miss S. Balreddy to L.R. [Leonora Ramsay] Wilson (Kenneth Wilson’s older sister), and a copy of the St. Christopher’s College of Education Diamond Jubilee College Report.

Contains handwritten family trees for the Wilson and Abbey families as well as a family tree for the De Bruyn family (Maria Mackenzie Wilson). George Clark was a cousin on Kenneth Wilson’s father’s side of the family. Grace and Wilfred Smith were related to Kate Abbey.

Contains a photocopy of Kenneth R. Wilson’s baptism record in the Barnburgh parish register and a document certifying it to be a true copy.

Contains research material about the Wilson family compiled by Nora Wilson, Kenneth R. Wilson’s daughter. Includes handwritten notes, photocopies of book pages, a copy of the 1881 British census, copies of burial registries for George Ramsay Wilson, a letter written by Lois Sutherland addressed to Mrs. Arnold, a copy of Nora’s essay “In Search of my Great Grandparents”, and Nora’s notes on her visit to the Church of Gamrie in 1977.

NOTE: “In Search of my Great Grandparents” is a chapter from Nora’s memoir Reluctant Pioneer.

File contains maps, notes and photographs of Mount Hope Cemetery in Brantford, ON, where Kenneth R. Wilson and his family are buried. Material was compiled by Nora Wilson.

Letter from Kenneth R. Wilson to his father, Norman Wilson. Written two days before the plane crash that took his life.

Letters of condolence from Lester B. Pearson (“Mike”), Louis St. Laurent and John Diefenbaker to Ruth Wilson following Kenneth R. Wilson’s death.