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.
This subseries contains records documenting the history of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario's activities in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. This includes historical summaries, chronicles, news clippings, correspondence, photographs, maps, art prints, publications, photographs, and guest books.
This file contains historical summaries of the area and the mission, lists of Sisters and their missions, a poem by Carolyn Mota from the closing of Sacred Heart Catholic Elementary School, a copy of a photograph of the 1915 school, and copies of photographs of the Sisters who were part of the Paris mission, a papal blessing, financial reports, an event programme, and correspondence related to the mission.
This file contains historical summaries of the Mount Forest mission, list of Sisters at this mission, anecdotes, a photocopy of a programme from the Sisters leaving Mount Forest, and a poem by Tony Schouten.
Sub-series contains Sister Norita Keenan’s one page memoir, postulant requirement list, souvenir booklet of the Diamond Jubilee, chaplain list, meal seating plan, and stationery.
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.