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File consists of a photograph of the Carrville Public School (School Section #3) located next to where Vince and Jean Del Brocco lived, opposite the Carrville Church. School was closed down and demolished shortly after 1960. Also included is a picture of the ruins of the old Reaman log cabin that used to stand on the edge of the creek, opposite the Carrville Post Office and hidden from the road. Third, a photo of Ann and their three children, Daniel (in the apple tree) Abigail and Adam holding a cat in the garden behind the house. Ann wrote is was "quite a wild field, we had no money for a lawn mower but we enjoyed the land. Must have been about 1967. The children were born, 59, 61 and 63. Now all have PhDs. Daniel is with the World Bank, in Colombia, Abigail with Microsoft in Cambridge, UK and Adam is a Professor in Merida, Mexico".

File consists of 1963 photographs of Stan Sellen and his family and a neighbor, Bert Whitty, at Carrville Post Office (at that time their family home) which was built by Thomas Cook in 1844 and became the post office in 1965. The Del Broccos (first Italian family in Vaughan) lived in the house in the 1920s. Building bought by Reamington Developments and restored. Restoration ceremony organized by Stan

File consists of correspondence of Vellore School Trustees, 1868, Town of Vaughan Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (Heritage Vaughan) agenda relating to designation of Vellore School, and Township Hall (also located at Vellore) as historic structures under the Ontario Heritage Act, 1985, and original architectural drawings (3 elevations), 1868 of the Vellore School.

Collection consists of school records belonging to Bruce, Herbert, Mary and George Constable. Records consist of assignments, test and examination papers, notebooks, day planners, textbooks, a pocket dictionary, daily attendance registers for Vaughan Township School S.S. No. 9 (Vellore School) and various handwritten notes. Also included are miscellaneous private records such as church programs, a playbill for a performance, a booklet containing baking recipes, newspapers and periodicals, an auto insurance card issued to John W. Constable and a box of candy.

Item consists of a plaque that depicts black and white photographs of the Maple School in 1893 and the Hope School in 1864 as Jean Bryson taught at both. The middle picture shows the Bryson School in 1882 since Jean married into the Bryson family.

Item consists of a brief history of Thornhill from first European settlement in 1790's to 1970.

File consists of three photographs. One image of Concord Methodist Church; two images of respective Concord School classes.

File consists of 2 photographs. Hope School was built ca. 1864 on the west half of Lot 28, Conceesion 3, and closed in 1967. The Edgely United Church was built in 1877; with the union of the Methodist churches, Edgeley became attached to the Maple circuit; it was closed in 1961, and demolished in 1969.

File consists of images of students assembled before the two-room brick Maple School House (School Section #6), built in 1896, capturing much of the structure; students of the Purpleville School (School Section #11); school building not included in latter image.

File consists of photographs and a postcard. One image depicting all of the students and staff of the Maple School in 1934, and two images, for 1934 and 1937, focusing on the students of one unidentified female teacher.