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Item consists of a textual record. Family history; provides solid coverage of the hamlet of Vellore and the business enterprise of J.J. Cameron, designer and builder of the famous Cameron Road Carts.

Item consists of a videocassette. Video focuses on the history of Yonge Street from its original use as an Ojibwaty trail providing a means to avoid the swamps of Holland Marsh and the Humber River Valley. Solid coverage of Simcoe's role in the development of Yonge Street as a military and commerical artery.

File consists of videocassettes. Bygone Vaughan is constituted of the following segments: story of Vaughan's settlement; special events and pioneer traditions; Black Creek Pioneer Village; history of pioneer transportation; history of area fairs and festivals; municipal government; Lorne Levy interviews; Jessie Bryson, past president of Vaughan Historical Society. Format is a series of stills, photographs and portraits, with contemporary footage, as well as museum living history interpretations, and narrative commentary.

Item consists of a map. Map delineating road beats in Vaughan Township, ca. 1879. Road beats were divisions of the Township delineated for the purpose of facilitating the administration and actual execution of road maintenance in compliance with local statutes of labour. The latter were in place in lieu of municipal taxation for the purposes of road maintenance, and involved obligations on the part of property owners to undertake road work, with the time requirements being directly proportional to the assessed value of a given property. The data utilised in the compilation of the map was gleaned from the Vaughan Township statute of labour returns.

Fonds consists of newspaper article on Help's Penny-Wise sale in 1978, proposed land use maps, campaign material for the 1972 election when Jim Cameron, Bill King, Mike Bevan and Claire Coates were running for Council with support from KARA, a report on Transit in Vaughan 1973, and newspapers, coins, and programs from Vaughan's inauguration as a City in 1991.

Fonds consists of plans, reports, studies, correspondence, published materials, essays, and newspaper clippings which document the planning and development of Vaughan. Specific Vaughan topics within the fonds include the Maple dump, the Maple theme park, the Woodbridge annexation, and the building of the Vaughan industrial park, to name but a few. Moreover, official plans and studies for Thornhill, Maple, Kleinburg, Nashville, and Woodbridge provide invaluable evidence as to the evolutionary development of these communities.

Collection consists of slides from 1989 depicting scenes from Maple (buildings, landscapes, people, etc.)

File consists of photographs. Photographs depict two examples of radial street cars, one in side view, the other a frontal view with the following individuals appearing before the vehicle: James Muirhead, Reeve of North York, Jacob Lunau, Reeve of Richmond Hill, Wesley Gohn, Reeve of Markham, James Robson, Reeve of Vaughan; this latter photograph was executed on the occasion of the opening of the North Yonge Railways. Accompanying material includes photocopies of photographs of radial streetcars and newspaper clippings relating to the opening and closing of the line

File consists of photographs of the first truck in Woodbridge.

File consists of postcards. Postcards depict various streetscapes and a bird's-eye view of Maple, as well as a very unique coloured image of a radial street car crossing a bridge in an unidentified location in the general Maple area, and the Maple Public School.