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This subseries contains records tracking statistics concerning membership and demographics within the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the London diocese. The data recorded in these statistics covers the time period 1858 to 2009. Material includes surveys, lists, quantitative summaries, and correspondence. These statistics log the ages and numbers of novices, postulants, professed Sisters, withdrawals, and Superiors within the community. There is also material tracking Sisters’ deaths, funerals, and burial locations. The Sisters’ works and occupations are a major topic, particularly their involvement in Ontario and Alberta. There are records tracking the positions of leadership within the community and the various missions, hospitals, and motherhouses the Sisters were involved with. This includes those who were General Superiors, on the General Counsil, or Treasurers. There are also statistics concerning Sisters’ occupations, particularly as teachers and health care workers. Some statistics are based on specific events, such as Sisters’ jubilees and the Sisters’ chosen religious names after Vatican II.

In relation to the statistical information, there is correspondence from the General Council about the appointment of Treasurers and a letter from the Sacred Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes in Rome requesting information for the 1971 Annuario Pontificio, the Holy See’s annual directory.

The subseries consists of a list of representatives present at a meeting of the London Diocese Sisters’ Council, memberships lists of 1972-1982, and correspondence concerning council members from 1969-1973. It also consists of the “Directory of Communities of Religious Women of the Diocese of London” produced by the Sisters’ Council in 1975. There are nomination forms for the executive positions of the Sisters’ Council and results from the 1972 nominations. There is also a list of members eligible for election to the Executive Committee and of new members accepting their position on the Council.

The subseries consists of advertisements for workshops, a program for the visit of the Archbishop of Detroit, notices for meetings, agendas, minutes, a morning prayer book from 1972, programs for events, membership lists, a constitution and correspondence confirming registration for workshops and to announce events. The subseries also consists of an article about the House of Sophrosyne which was a residential treatment centre and detoxification unit for alcoholic women in the Windsor and Essex County area. There is also an article describing the Council celebration of 1980 held for for the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Religious Conference. The subseries also contains reports at the request of Bishop Carter on surveys and discussions carried on by the Sisters’ Council and the Priests’ Senate.

This series consists of agendas, minutes, programmes, reports and correspondence of the Associates Program, including meetings of the Core Team, the Animator Team, annual business meetings, and the Liaison Group. Other materials include financial and grant reports, policy reviews, conference flyers and photographs, and materials related to ceremonies and rituals.

This series consists of records from meetings of the St. Joseph’s Health Care Society board. Records include the agenda and minutes from the first meeting of the directors, a public notification of the first annual meeting of the directors and members, and the transcribed remarks of Sr. Therese Marie Caillouette delivered at a meeting of the Society in April 1995.