Fonds consists of documents related to the career of K.P. Kirkwood as a diplomat and a writer. This includes correspondence, diaries and journals, typescripts and drafts of poems and essays, speeches and addresses, and press clippings, n.d., 1891-1990.
The fonds contains photographs depicting the activities, views, groups, and individuals associated with the life and career of K.P. Kirkwood.
The fonds also contains medals and a pin presented to Kirkwood, [ca. 1914]-1983.
The fonds also contains a road map of the Netherlands, n.d.; a tourist map of Constantinople, 1922; and two maps of France showing transportation routes, n.d..
Kirkwood, Kenneth P. (Kenneth Porter), 1899-1968 : Kenneth Porter Kirkwood, born in 1899 at Brampton, Ont., received his education from the University of Toronto, B.A. 1922, and Columbia University, M.A. 1927. He served during World War I with the Royal Air Force, 1917-1918. During the 1920s he was on staff of Appleby College, Columbia University, the Brooklyn Law School and the International College at Smyrna.
His diplomatic career began when he joined the Canadian Diplomatic Service in 1928. During the course of his career,his appointments included, 2nd Secretary to the Canadian Legation in Washington, 1928-1929, Tokyo, 1929-1939, and The Hague, 1940-1941, lst secretary to the Canadian Consul in Greenland, 1940-1941, assisted in opening new Canadian Consul in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1941, Santiago, 1942, Warsaw, 1947-1950. He served as Adviser to the Canadian Delegation of the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, 1948 and New York, 1954. Further appointments included, High Commissioner to Pakistan, 1952-1954. Ambassador to Egypt and Minister to Lebanon, 1954-1956. High Commissioner to New Zealand, 1956-1957 and the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa, 1957-1959. Kirkwood married Christine Czerwinska Christians in 1961. He died in 1968.
See also: The Canadian Who's Who, 1967-1969.
