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This series contains the chronicles and history of St. Joseph’s Convent in St. Thomas, Ontario where it doubled as a home for the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario and a school. The Sisters held different appointments as principals, teachers, lab technicians, and assistants at the Holy Angels Elementary School and St. Joseph’s High School in St. Thomas. The records in this series document the various school classes, performances, recitals, and fundraisers the Sisters participated in, and the various social care, welfare work, and spiritual guidance administered by the Sisters at the Holy Angels Church and surrounding Parish. There are news clippings, correspondence, booklets, brochures, photographs, and a vinyl record that document the social, cultural, and religious activities and events in the Parish of Holy Angels in St. Thomas.

This subseries contains the chronicles of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London in St. Thomas, Ontario. There are records on the various teaching ministries and other religious activities of the Sisters at St. Joseph’s Convent from 1894 to 1994, and documentation on the education and spiritual work of Sister Mary Boer at a Community Apartment on Wellington Street from 1994 to 1997. The chronicles also contain records on the founding of St. Joseph’s Convent on February 8, 1897, and its many renovations. The chronicles cover various musical, sporting, and social events the Sisters participated in at Holy Angel’s Elementary School and St. Joseph’s High School. This subseries also has records on Sister Mary Boere who taught at St. Raphael’s Separate School from 1975 to 1982, and at William Sherlock Morrison School from 1982 to 1996. On May 6, 1979, the Sisters celebrated a hundred years of service to St. Thomas. There are records that Holy Angels and St. Anne’s Parishes held a Centennial Celebration to honour the 178 Sisters who served in St. Thomas since 1879.

There are several lists of Sisters who ministered in St. Thomas, including identifying who taught and those who entered the Congregation. There is also a list of music students at St. Joseph’s Convent and a list of furniture expenses. There is a booklet History of the St. Thomas Parish 1803-1921 compiled by Monsignor Thomas West in 1921 with printed pictures of Fathers, churches, schools, communion class, cadets, and a regiment parade in St. Thomas and surrounding area. There is a 1979 guestbook for the Sisters’ hundredth anniversary in St. Thomas. There is a 1954 event brochure for St. Joseph’s School of Music graduation and recital at Holy Angels’ Church. There are valedictorian speeches by graduating students and sermons . There is correspondence, thank you cards, and personal letters regarding a lace veil made by the Sisters at Good Shepherd Convent in Limerick, Ireland, which was gifted on the hundredth birthday of Sister Doreen.

There are numerous news clippings related to the Sisters in St. Thomas, religious appointments, tributes, celebrations, St. Joseph’s High School, Joseph’s School of Music, Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church, the closing and demolition of St. Joseph’s Convent and St. Joseph’s High School, Reverend Robert Cartwright acceptance of a new mission in Perú. There are also obituaries and articles related to deaths of Mother M. Ignatia (Catherine Ann) Campbell, Father Marcel Leo LeBoeuf, and Donald Udell, a twenty-year-old RCAF pilot and graduate of Holy Angels School and St. Joseph’s High School, during the Second World War. In addition, there are photographs of Reverend Father William Flannery, St. Joseph’s Convent, Holy Angels’ School, and Our Lady of the Angels Church in St. Thomas, Ontario. There is also the vinyl record, God Bless the People of St. Joes, written by Dennis Scherer and J. Richard Hutt to commemorate the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Home in Guelph, Ontario.

This subseries contains the history of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, during their mission in St. Thomas, Ontario. There are historical summaries and short drafts about the various groups of Sisters who resided at St. Joseph’s Convent on White Street in St. Thomas, when it first opened in 1879 until its closing in 1994. The Sisters were assigned ministries in teaching, social work, and spiritual guidance in the Parish of Holy Angels. From 1994 to 2004, Sister Mary Boer was the last remaining Sister living in St. Thomas. She lived alone in a Community apartment on the second floor of a house on Wellington Street. In this subseries, Sister Mary Boere chronicled her education ministry as a teacher at William Sherlock Morrison School and Monsignor Morrison Catholic School. Sister Mary wrote about her retirement in 1996, after thirty-one years of teaching and her work as a Pastoral Assistant at the Holy Angels’ Parish, helping with the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program, Baptism and other sacramental preparations, and starting an Associate Group that met monthly with Sister Doreen Kraemer as the animator. Sister Mary documented her professional development activities including starting a Pastoral Visitor’s course in 2004, at the Elgin General Hospital, and she wrote about her post-graduate work with patients in a program under the care of Reverend Adele Miles, the Pastoral Care Consultant. There is a postcard from Father Leo James Slatterie to the Sisters; invitation cards for the silver jubilee of Sister Mary Brendan and centennial celebration commemorating the Sisters’ presence at Holy Angels Church; event program brochures for Sister Patrice Ritchie’s Religious Profession, and the 25th Anniversary of Mount St. Joseph, in London, Ontario; and a booklet titled Fiftieth Anniversary of Ordination, Right Reverend Thomas West, Domestic Prelate, 1876-1926. This subseries also contains news clippings related to Sister Mary Boere, Reverend Mother Mary Julia (Cecilia) Moore, Reverend Charles Thomas McManus, and the murder of Johanna Hassel in Holy Angels’ Church in 1977.