This is a collection of material related to the life and work of Mother Ignatia Campbell which comprises two subseries. It includes several biographical chronologies and summaries of her work which were considered in the drafting of her profile in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (University of Toronto Press). There are news clippings and photographs of the 1991 “People and the City” monument in London, Ontario which includes a depiction of Mother Ignatia Campbell. There is information related to the “Mother Ignatia Campbell Bursary for Women” introduced at Regis College, Toronto in 2005. There are genealogical research notes and correspondence about Mother Ignatia Campbell prepared by Sister Esther Bardawell. There are also several undated photographs of Mother Ignatia Campbell.
All the photographs in this subseries represent Mother Ignatia Campbell at different ages, but the dates of each photo are not provided. One photograph was printed at Jas. Egan’s photographic gallery in London, Ontario, and another by Frank Cooper, also of London, Ontario. One of the photos has the label: “Mother Ignatia Campbell, 1840-1929, First Superior General of The Sisters of St. Joseph of London Diocese”; and on the photocopy taken from the same photo a note is added: “who accompanied Sister Rose Bondy and Sister Ambrosia Durkin to Windsor when they began teaching at Notre Dame School in Windsor,” and another version “when they began teaching at Our Lady of the Rosary Church.”
This subseries consists of biographical information on Mother Ignatia Campbell. The biographical material consists of photocopies of the original Act of Reception and Act of Profession. There are materials related to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (University of Toronto Press) entry, and correspondence between Dr. Elizabeth Smyth and Sister Pauline Leblanc regarding the editing process of the revised entry. The City of London also included Mother Ignatia Campbell in the monument for downtown London created by artists Stuart Reid and Doreen Balabanoff that was unveiled on August 5th, 1991. The sculpture is located on Wellington Street near Queens Avenue, and there are newsclippings, photographs, and correspondence about this. There is information related to the “Mother Ignite Campbell Bursary for Women” that was implemented at Regis College in 2005 in honour of Mother Ignatia as well as other newspaper clippings. There is also the research notes and correspondence of Sister Esther Bardawill, who was conducting genealogical research on Mother Ignatia Campbell. The subseries comprises biographical transcripts, brochures, chronicles, correspondence and facsimile, information sheets, newspaper clippings, obituary information, photocopies of books and original records, photographs, and a sermon transcript.