The Files papers document his activities as administrator of the Humanities Group and the English Department (ca 1946-1956, with some earlier material) and as a teacher. Administrative materials comprise about 1.5 m of information and correspondence files concerning the business of Senate, the Faculties of Arts and Science and Graduate Studies, the Humanities Group of the Arts Faculty, and the English Department. English Department material forms the largest part of the papers with files on honours and graduate students (including sessional registration forms), reading lists, examinations, awards, job applications, examination of theses, the administration of Moyse Hall, freshman orientation, and personal as well as general correspondence. There are also files pertaining to Files' work for the Montreal branch of the Humanities Association of Canada. Teaching materials consist of a large number of student essays, stories, examination papers and poems, including some by Louis Dudek and Irving Layton, ca 1937-1950. From Files' student days come lecture notes on the history of English language, 1921. There are also approximately 25 reprints of articles by Files' acquaintances and colleagues and copies of some journal and newspaper articles by and about Files.

File consists of Introduction and Table of Contents from John Schreiber's course, Landscape 301-375, given at the McGill School of Architecture between 1978 and 1987.

The fonds contains student drawings of Orford Castle in Suffolk, measured drawings of Hampton Court Palace, Gipping Chapel in Suffolk and details of historical architecture.

Le fonds contient notamment des dessins d'étudiant du Château Orford à Suffolk, des relevés de Hampton Court Palace, de Gipping Chapel à Suffolk ainsi que des détails d'architecture historique.

File includes two drawings of details of designs for the War Office (1898), Whitehall, London.

Contient deux dessins architecturaux: détails des plans du ministère de la Guerre (1898), Whitehall (Londres).