Item consists of local improvement notices. Addressed to Jesse Ireland, a resident of Aurora Ontario, these five local improvement notices from the Township of York notified property owners that they had been assessed and thus owed money for improvements to trunk and service sewers, street extensions and grading, concrete sidewalks, and pavements. Notices show the total cost of the work and the rates per front frontage and give insight into to the property taxes and courts of that time.

Item consists of a report for the year 1897 submitted to the Reeve and Council of the Township of York and detailing work done on roads in the areas of Coleman, Todmorden, Deer Park, Bracondale, Swansea, Lambton Mills, Mount Dennis, Weston, Downsview, and Yonge St. Report provides excellent example of the role and responsibilities of public works and Township engineers during the late 1800s and details the condition of the roads, street railways, and sidewalks at that time as well as the roles of the Pathmasters and Traction Engineers. List of taxes for 1897 is recorded at end of report.