Subseries 02 - History

• Graphic material
• Textual record

7.3 cm of textual records

This subseries contains several historical summaries of the activities and events in the Archdiocese of Edmonton by the Congregation of the Sister of St. Joseph of London, Ontario. Of noteworthy consideration is a historical summary on the western houses in Alberta from 1972 to 1983, written by Sister Catherine Cunningham. Topics include the events and activities of the Sisters’ Canadian western mission in the field of education, such as: teacher meetings, school re-openings in September, open house visits and school reunions, and the Edmonton Catholic School District. Sister Cunningham also recorded day-to-day activities like celebrations, year-end outings, religious retreats and workshops, weather reports, spring house cleaning, Community days at Sylvan Lake cottage, the annual Klondike Days fair and exhibition, and the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. The summary also includes a list of Sisters who worked in the western missions, the transfer and appointments of Sisters and new apostolates, the funeral of Monsignor James Alexander MacLellan on January 24, 1981, and a map of the five dioceses of Alberta from 1912 to 1959. Sister Cunningham also compiled a report, 50 Golden Years in Canada’s Golden West. This report contains pages of printed photographs assembled as collages. The pictures comprise individual and group portraits of the Sisters formally dressed in their holy habits, as well as pictures of Archbishops, Reverend Fathers, and friends. This compilation also has an illustrated diagram, that include the names of 17 Sisters, each in a cross with their year of passing from 1945 to 1971; and it contains early news clippings from 1928, 1930, and 1933, on the religious ceremony, reception and profession of the Sisters at the Sacred Heart Convent in Edmonton. This subseries has two notebooks, one dated from January 2, 1933, to October 8, 1938, and the other dated from July 30, 1938, to August 27, 1940, about the activities of the Sisters at the Sacred Heart Convent. In addition, there is a historical summary from 1650 to 1997, that has several printed pictures of the Sisters. The author of these documents is unknown.