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Collection consists of textual records and photographs. Textual material: copy of History of the Vaughan Lodge A.F. & A.M., No. 54, G.R.C. (Masonic Order)/by Neil J. MacDonald, the Lodge being founded in 1854; copy of Blackwood Lodge (Woodbridge) A.F. & A.M., No. 311 G.R.C. (Masonic Order)/by Blackwood Historical Committee; Ellis family genealogical charts. Photoprints: Depict Vellore School pupils assembled before their school building, 1907; Vellore Football Champs, 1933; Maple street scene, 4th Street, turn-of-the-century; and hand-coloured photoprint of the McCluskey House, Nashville, Ont., ca. 1900.

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 copies of transcriptions of abstract indexes to deeds, nominal and agricultural census records re: John McDonald and other members of the McDonald family in Vaughan Township; also includes copy of Crown Deed granting John McDonald land in Vaughan, will and biographical sketch of foregoing; and data on McDonald family farms in Maple and Vellore. Histories of the hamlet of Vellore, the Vellore Old Boys Association, the Vellore School and Township Hall also form part of this collection. Graphic material includes photograpic copyprints of original visual documentation of Vellore, the Cameron Road Carts company, John McDonald and family: Samuel, Dugald, Donald, etc. Images provide good coverage of Vellore during the late 1800's to mid-1930's; also two images of Vellore Football Team, 1908 and 1928.

Item consists of a photocopy of an essay written as part of requirements for credit in York University history course 3530; utilizes primary sources to delineate the social, political, and economic evolution of Vellore in the wider context of the Canadian historical experience for the period in question.

Item consists of a photograph. Photograph of following at residence of Livingston McNeil: (l-r) Livingston McNeil, Anne Malloy, Lillian McNeil, Neil Malloy, Charlie McNeil, and Coulson Malloy.

File consists of illustrated roll of students Vellore School (School Section # 9) who volunteered for active service with Canada's fighting forces during World War II, and memorial roll of members of the Vellore Women's Institute who died between 1915 and 1965.

Fonds consists Club newsletter, Vellore Pep, for 1932-1935, photoprints from 1938 with identification of subjects, and a song book for junior farmers produced by the Junior Farmers' Association of Ontario in 1953. Fonds is fragmentary.

Fonds consists of photographs of the annual Cameron family picnics and the Cameron and Walkington families; the 1932, 1971, 1987 editions of the booklets containing the memoirs of Donald Cameron and the remarks of his son, Archibald Cameron; write-ups on the history of Vellore and Vaughan Township; responses to invitations to the Cameron family picnics; photocopies of the 1820

Fonds consists of report cards for Mary Seed as well as class photos and accompanying lists of student names. Many of the Chapman children appear throughout the photos.

Fonds consists of aerial photographs that cover the entire City of Vaughan and include images of streets and highways, rivers, railway lines and stations, hospitals, community centres, subdivisions, conservation areas, public attractions, reservoirs, factories and plants, lumber yards, airfields, fairgrounds, and shopping centres. Also included are "indexes" for each year which make finding a particular photograph or area of Vaughan quite easy. Also included is a Leroy Lettering Set which was used for mechanical lettering on maps and drawings in the Engineering Services Dept until 1995/96 at which time computers took a more prevalent role in the department's business functions. Also included are a polar planimeter which was used to determine metric area, and a case containing fifty-five railroad curves which were used in the design and layout of roads.