The residents listing for the Farmers and Business Directory for the Counties of Durham, Haliburton, Northumberland, Peterboro and Victoria and Districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Algoma and Manitoulin Island for 1903 had a detailed listing of freeholder and tenant residents, including unmarried women, likely adult women. Information about freeholder or tenant status, concession and lot numbers appeared beside the names. Some Cramahe residents' names also appeared in the listing for Haldimand Township. The standard features - the alphabetical business listing and advertisements - were also included.

Directories and gazetteers started to scale back content and coverage after 1903. The 1906 Ontario Commercial Year Book and Gazetteer and the 1910-11 Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory contained an alphabetical business listing and brief description of a town or village. Residents listings and advertisements were absent from these publications.

The 1916-17 Vernon's Directory - Durham, Haliburton, Northumberland, Ontario, Peterborough, and Victoria counties was published midway during World War I. Its format was abbreviated in scope and content due to the pressures of the country being engaged in the war effort. The residents listing was included and a key to the abbreviations were provided - f, freeholder; t, tenant; s, Farmer's son; br, broken front; b, block. Only two Cramahe Township advertisements - the Barfett Bros. Hardware and the Enterprise - were featured in this directory.

As noted earlier, the decline of directories and gazetteers had started at the turn of the 20th century. In 1908 an early version of the Yellow Pages, the telephone directory, was published, possibly contributing to the lessening impact of directories and gazetteers.