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This series contains the annals by Sister Christina Straus of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario's ministry while living in Elmira, Ontario. There is also a news clipping, a history of St. Theresa of Avilia Church, and a list of benefactors to the church. Sister Christina Straus came to Elmira, Ontario in 1999. From 1996 to 2007 she served as Parish Minister at St. Teresa’s Parish in Elmira, Ontario. While there, she did parish work and did house visits. After which she moved to St. Joseph’s Motherhouse, Hamilton to continue her Prayer Ministry and her rug hooking.

Elmira is part of Woolwich Township which is located on the traditional territory of the Chononton (also called Attawandaron), Anishnaabe, and Haudenosaunee People.

49 Charlton Avenue East, Hamilton was a community house of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario. The Sisters moved in in 1976 and were primarily involved in health care, education, and pastoral ministry in Hamilton and the surrounding area. The Sisters left in 2001. This series contains the annals documenting the ministries and social activities of the Sisters of St. Joseph who lived here. There is also correspondence, house meeting minutes, records from a workshop about keeping annals, and photographs. There are also annals from the Brantford community of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton.

The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario ministered in Guelph, Ontario since they founded St. Joseph’s Hospital in Guelph in 1861. This mission house at 82 Oxford Street, Guelph was operated from 1977 to 1989. This series contains the records of this mission house, including annals, a list of Sisters who lived here, and photograph albums. Guelph is situated on the traditional lands of the Attiwonderonk and the Haudenosaunee. It is part of the treaty lands and territory with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, adjacent to the Haldimand Tract, and is part of traditional hunting ground of the Six Nations of the Grand River.

This series contains the records of Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The traditional name for Yellowknife is Sǫ̀mbak’è and it is located the Chief Drygeese Territory as well as Treaty 8 Territory. It is the traditional land of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. The Sisters of St. Joseph first came to the Northwest Territories in August of 1953 to teach at the Catholic schools in Yellowknife. When the first Sisters arrived, the convent was not yet ready, and so they slept in a “tar-paper shack” across from St. Patrick’s Elementary School. While the Sisters moved into their convent in New Town in the fall, the building was not completed until March 13, 1954. St. Patrick’s High School opened in 1961, and the Sisters taught there as well. It was destroyed by a fire in April of 1964, and the students were temporarily taught at Akaicho Hall and St. Patrick’s Elementary. The replacement school opened the following November. In 1978 St. Joseph’s Elementary School opened, named in honour of the Sisters of St. Joseph’s service. In 1987 the Sisters moved to a new convent on School Draw. The Sisters were also involved in parish ministry, assisted with transportation, taught music, lead Scouts troops, and sat on various committees. As of 2025, individual Sisters continued to live and minister in and around Yellowknife. Records present include chronicles, historical summaries, publications, maps, newsletters, news clippings, photographs, fabric crests, copies of and original art prints, and a scrapbook. Throughout this series, offensive historical terminology for Indigenous Peoples are used.

This series contains annals of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario covering their history from 1850 to 1990. There is also a newspaper from the Sisters' 150th anniversary and an account by Sister Katrina Rooney (1947-2007) on Mother Mary Martha Von Bunning.

This series contains the records of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario's mission in Kenilworth, Ontario. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton came to Kenilworth in 1924 to teach at a parochial school, teach continuation classes, as well as care for the altar and sanctuary in Sacred Heart Parish. Sacred Heart Catholic School opened in 1962 and the Sisters also taught there. The Sisters left in 1971, but teaching Sisters continued to commute to Kenilworth from Arthur until June 1976. Then, in 2004, the Sisters returned to Kenilworth to serve the various parishes of Kenilworth, Arthur, and Mount Forest, Ontario. At this time, the Sisters lived in the renovated rectory next to Sacred Heart Church. This series contains annals, a certificate of thanks, photographs, news clippings, historical summaries, financial reports, and correspondence.

This series contains the annals and photographs of the vocation house at 68 Bond Street South, Hamilton of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario. The house was established as a small community house where Sisters resided with the focus on vocation ministry to support the Congregation.

This series primarily contains the financial and legal documents of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario, for the Sylvan Lake property in the Summer Village of Birchcliff, Alberta. Documents include official appraisal reports, property surveys, purchase and sale of land records, a subdivision land map, drawing of a diagram for the construction of a garage and extension for storage. There are also invoices and receipts for the building, repair, and maintenance of the Sylvan Lake cottage, as well as correspondence with construction contractors. There is a report authored by Cuthbertson Sandall Chartered Accountants titled, Summer Village of Birchcliff Financial Statements, Year Ended December 31, 2001. There is also a folded and certified land survey plan indicating the subdivision plots by the City of Red Deer Land Surveyor, Mr. J. C. Horn, dated July 2, 1974. In addition, there are photographs of the landscape and the interior of the house. There are also two photograph albums, one created by Colin George Arthur and Lorna Mae Arthur and the other by the Sisters.

This series contains summaries, administrative records, correspondence, and news clippings related to the history of St. Stephen’s House at English Street and St. Stephen’s House at Gower Street in London, Ontario and highlights the nursing ministry of Sister St. Patrick (Monica Mary) Joyce, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario. Sister St. Patrick dedicated 56 years of her service to people recovering from alcohol and chemical addiction. St. Stephen’s House at English Street and at Gower Street were long-term residential treatment facilities established and managed by Sister St. Patrick that provided rehabilitative programs for people in addiction recovery. There is a short biography documenting the work of Sister St. Patrick. There is a news clipping from the 1976 London Free Press titled, “Most men on Skid Road are war veterans,” by Wendy Koenig. There is correspondence on donations made to St. Stephen’s House from The London Foundation, in 1985; and correspondence on a print of Westover in Thamesville, Ontario, that was gifted to Sister Patrick Joyce from the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, in 2006. In addition, there is a scrapbook that contains short histories on St. Stephen’s Houses, correspondence from the Addiction Research Foundation of Canada in appreciation of Sister St. Patrick’s long nursing career and her innovative treatment methods. In the scrapbook, there is a printed picture of Sister St. Patrick Joyce, various news clippings related to her ministry, and the first Annual Report of St. Stephen’s House at English Street, London, Ontario, from 1982 to 1983.

This series contains short histories, minutes, first house meetings, and the quarterly and financial reports of Theophany, an experimental community group of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario, from 1972 to 1983. Various Sisters who were members of Theophany lived first at a house on Grosvenor Street then at Wellington Street in London. They sought personal growth through a communal life of daily group praying and by the spontaneous sharing of their prayer experience. There is a list of Sisters who were stationed at the Theophany Community House from 1972 to 1983 and priests who celebrated Mass for the Sisters at the house from 1972 to 1974. There is correspondence from Mother Mary Brendan, Superior General. One letter is to Sister Loretta Janisse related to her appointment as the Co-Ordinator of the Theophany Community, from 1974 to 1975, and other letters encourage the Theophany Sisters to have co-responsibility and accountability to each other, and to the Community. In addition, there is a printed picture given by Sister Elaine (Marie Noel) Cole in 2020. The printed picture is a photograph of the first group of Sisters who resided at the Theophany Community House that was taken on September 23, 2006, at a social gathering in anticipation of the closing of the Mount St. Joseph Motherhouse in London. In addition, there is a scrapbook that contains photographs with slogans and text cut-out from magazines. Photographs in the scrapbook depict Sisters, priests, and guests at the Theophany Community Houses at Grosvenor Street and at Wellington Street.