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Fonds consists of minute books, 1915-1982, delineating deliberations, decisions, and activities of the Vellore Women's Institute, as well as occasionally citing the names of members and officers; and Vellore Tweedsmuir history (present in original and microform). Main topical subjects addressed in the latter include: Vellore Women's Institute and its contribution to welfare and development of the community; general community history including geography and topography of the locale; municipal government; agriculture; architecture; education; trade and commerce; histories of individual farms and families; religion; experiences of the community in Canada's wars including namers of volunteers in both conflicts; the Vellore Literary Society; the Vellore Band; transcribed reminicences of such individuals as Mrs. Ann Davidson, and Elizabeth Ann Snider; (extensive coverage of Rutherford Barn Raising, 1929; as well as history of hamlet of Teston; and Purpleville School (S.S #11).
The 2002 accrual consists of the papers from the Woodbridge Agricultural Fair and the Canadian Association of Exhibitions; minute books of the Vellore Women

Collection consists of eclectic assortment of records, consisting of summary of assets and plot index of the Edgeley Burying Grounds, newspaper clippings relating to significant events, as well as a well-documented account of the Superior Propane explosion of August 5th, 1962. Copies of Henry Horne's 1896 "Early Settlers on This Line" and Mabel Burkholder's "Palitinate Settlements in York County" are also included in the collection as well as the Ontario Historical Society's "Papers and Records - Volume 37" from 1945.