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Item consists of 1 CD with 26 images created by students. Metadata for each image located in file name.

Item consists of an article that discusses the general history of Thornhill, and architectural developments, and efforts at conservation and preservation from the 1840's to 1967. Architectural styles, building materials and methods are also addressed.

Item consists of an edition of The Woodbridge and Vaughan News. This edition includes numerous articles re: the history of Woodbridge; specifically, articles comment upon the architectural history of Woodbridge, demographic development, the Woodbridge Library and Post Office, Hurricane Hazel, prominent community members such as Rowland Burr, Dr. Garnet McClean, and John Abell, etc. Includes numerous halftones depicting various subject matter, including rare images of the Abell Agricultural Works.

Item consists of a photoessay. Octagonal barn built between 1870 and 1890 by Isaac Hafenbrack for Samuel Troyer; structure representative of the onset of the "octagon craze" that developed in Ontario at the time of the construction of the above.

Item consists of a videocassette and a script. Through use of historic photographs and etchings, and contemporary footage focusing predominantly upon Thornhill's historically significant sites and architecture, provides synopsis of major events and personalities constituting the area's history.

Item consists of a photoessay. The round house was reputedly built by Adam or Jacob Rupert in 1837. Octagonal shape of structure attributable to concerns re: heat and circulation space, and conservation of building materials; located lot 21, concession 4, Maple, Ontario.

Item consists of an award certificate in a silver frame.

Item consists of specifications that include the joisting, flooring, partitions, wall strapping, lintles, wainscoating, door frames, etc. of a structure located at 790 Clarence St., Woodbridge and is owned and maintained by City of Vaughan.

Item consists of maps and supporting documentation; includes maps of various areas of Vaughan, with line drawings and brief descriptions of historically significant features of the municipality and its constituent villages.

Item consists of a support document for tour of architectural structures attributable to the "plain people" - Mennonites, Dunkards, Quakers, Amish, and Maravians - who settled in above-noted areas during the early 1790's to 1820's; includes brief history of said denominations; bulk of document comments upon building methods and materials, architectural styles favoured, and general architectural and historical significance of a number of structures.