This file contains a photo album titled “Memories of Sylvan Lake,” which was put together by Colin George Arthur and Lorna Mae Arthur as a gift to the Sisters on June 15, 2005. The photographs depict the landscape surrounding the property and interior and exterior of the home in which the Sisters carried on in conducting their pastoral work.
This subseries contains three photo albums that document the visual history of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario, during their Belle River Mission in the Parish of St. Simon and St. Jude, Ontario. There are photographs of the exterior and interior of St. Joseph’s Convent, St. Simon and St. Jude Church, and St. John Baptist School, in Belle River, Ontario. The photographs in these albums provide a glimpse into the lives of the Sisters and the various social, cultural, and spiritual activities they participated in such as, religious retreats, Jubilees, and seasonal celebrations like Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. There are photographs related to the travels the Sisters took on holiday trips to Niagara Falls, Ontario, and to Alberta. There are also photographs of the Sisters interacting with students at school events.
This subseries contains two photo albums that provide visual documentation of the various missions, activities, and events of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London in London, Ontario and beyond. Inside both photo albums are photographs of Sisters interacting with each other at events such as spiritual retreats, reunions, jubilees, open houses, convent closing, farewell mass, first vow ceremonies, cultural holidays and seasonal celebrations. There are also photographs of Sisters engaging with a variety of other people such as with parishioners at a baseball park in London, students in Moosonee, altar boys and a children’s choir in Maidstone, Jesuit Novices and Guatemalan refugees in Toronto, and services in the chapels of the various community residences the Sisters occupied in Ontario. “Miscellaneous Missions” contains photographs from Harrow, Kinkora, Sarnia, Maidstone, Toronto, Ingersoll, Seaforth, Moosonee, and Elginfield. In addition, the “Miscellaneous Missions” album contains postcards depicting the Oxley Holy Family Retreat House, in Harrow, Ontario and event programs for the Federation Novitiate Final Liturgy in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 2001 and the World Youth Day at St. Patrick Church in Lucan, Ontario, in 2002. The album “London Missions, and Small Houses” contains photographs of the Sisters’ Community Houses and retreats on Alma Street, Boullée Street, Jalna Boulevard, Little Grey Street, Queens Avenue, Richmond Street, Wellington Street, and Windermere Road in London.