Series consists of copies of Echoes, a publication produced at Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Early editions were published monthly by various groups, including the Philomathean Society and the Literary Society. Later volumes are published yearly and function as yearbooks. 1977 was the sesquicentennial of P.C.V.I. and the yearbook for this year has a full history of the school included.

Years include 1905, 1907-1910, 1916-1918, 1922, 1925-1927, 1929, 1937-1944, 1946-1965, and 1977.

File consists of textual records about Joseph May living at the Orphan Homes of Scotland and descriptions about his travels from Scotland to Peterborough and Belleville areas, where he attended the Peterborough Normal School for teaching. Included is a photograph of boys on the steps of Fairknowe School in Brockville after Joseph arrived in Canada in 1926, and a photographic booklet of the Orphan Homes of Scotland (1926). Also included is a yearbook from the Peterborough Normal School (1944), a single page in his handwriting recording a timeline of his life events, and original documents containing a Certificate of Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture (1939) and Convocation programs (1954, 1960) from the University of Toronto.