Fonds consists of files as Minister without Portfolio, 1911-1916, 5.1 m; general correspondence, 1916-1917, 2.5 m; War Purchasing Commission, 1915-1918, 2.6 m; Military Hospitals Commission, 1915-1919, 0.7 m; acting Minister of Militia and Defence, 1916, 0.6 m; Minister of Militia and Defence, 1916-1917, 1.2 m; Minister of Overseas Military Forces, 1917-1920, 5.8 m; printed material, 0.6 m; business, political, family and personal, 1856-1942, 1.1 m. Fonds also contains albums of photographs of buildings under construction and erected by Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. There are also photographs of Forces of Military Council, Overseas Military Forces of Canada, London, England, ca. 1917; photo by Elliott & Fry; portraits of Kemp and Gipsy Smith; photos by Kennedy, Lancefield Abell, Harris & Ewing; British immigrants outside British Welcome League Headquarters, Toronto, Ont.; photo by Pringle & Booth; portrait of Sir Edward Kemp. Fonds consists of a map of the First World War Western European front and a map of Ontario indicating which western and European cities are in the same latitude.
Kemp, A. E. (Albert Edward), 1858-1929 : Albert Edward Kemp was born in Clarenceville, Canada East. He was a representative for Prowse Brothers, in Montreal around 1879. He moved to Toronto in 1885 and entered in partnership with Herbert O. Edy in Kemp, Edy and Company. In 1886, Kemp joined with Thomas McDonald to form McDonald, Kemp and Company, later the Dominion Tin and Stamping Company. Eventually as the A.E. Kemp Manufacturing Company, the firm extended operations to Winnipeg and Montreal. A.E. Kemp served as president of the Canadian Manufacturers Association, 1895-1896, and of the Toronto Board of Trade, 1899-1900. He served as a conservative member of Parliament for Toronto East from 1900 to 1921, and as a senator from 1921 until 1929. He served as minister without Portfolio, 1911-1916, minister of Militia and Defence, 1916-1917, minister of Overseas Forces of Canada in the United Kingdom, 1917-1920, and minister without Portfolio, 1920-1921. He was chairman of the War Purchasing Committee, 1915-1917, a member of the Imperial War Cabinet, 1918, and Canadian Commissioner and Plenipotentiary at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.
