The fonds consists of manuscripts, research files, and printed material relating to Knight's activities as a student and university professor in the field of anthropology, as well as his writing as a Canadian historian. Included are: correspondence with and applications to publishers and universities; a typescript copy of Knight’s memoirs and manuscript copies of "A Very Ordinary Life" (1974), "Indians at Work" (1978), “Along the No. 20 Line” (1980), “Homer Stevens” (1992), Not a Philosophical Atheism” (2012), and "Nativism and Americanism" (2013), among Knight’s other publications; research data and bibliographies gathered as part of Knight’s research and writing; book reviews of Knight’s works, as well as Knight’s reviews of others’ publications; transcripts and sound recordings of Knight’s interviews with Bob Chestnut, Harvey Murphy, and John Smith; and photographs used in Knight’s “Along the No. 20 Line” (1980).