The fonds consists of 8 series and 22 sub-series that document the de Carle family monument business founded by Lancelot de Carle in the 1850s and moved to Brockville, Ontario in 1861, and the lives of the de Carle and Grant families. The series and sub-series include: Order and inventory records (1862-1965): Inscription books (1862-1955), order pads (1916-1958), Miscellaneous inscriptions, Stone order books (1888-1940) and Inventory books (1909-1924, 1940-1965); Financial records (1856-1975): Account books (1856-1953), Employee time and payroll books (1864-1960), Combined statements of accounts (1897-1903, 1912-1925, 1927, 1929), Receipts (1889-1895), Bank books (1883-1895, 1932-1937, 1945-1956), Cancelled cheques and promissory notes (1877, 1890-1907, 1915-1924, 1932-1938), Cheque stubs (1924-1927, 1932-1939, 1973-1975); Miscellaneous business records; Brockville Cemetery Management (1854-1936); Graphic records: Gravestone photographs, Designs and design books, Family and business photographs, and Wholesale catalogs and advertising matter; Correspondence (1865-1981): Letterbooks (1886-1933), Incoming correspondence (1865-1981), Aberdeen correspondence (1892-1919); Family records (1868- 1975): Family/personal - de Carle (1868-1939), Family/personal - Grant (1935-1975), Brockville and the Township of Elizabethtown, School notebooks (1872-1880, 1902-1903), Ontario Business College (1875-1881), Newspapers (1880-1979), General publications (1815-1962); and Miscellaneous material.