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This subseries contains records relating to events and meetings hosted for and by the congregation, particularly Community Days and Assemblies. On Community Days Sisters could gather to reflect on and discuss the internal and external activities of the congregation, as well as visit and pray. Assembly Days were meetings held every two years where the whole congregation would gather to discuss their plans, goals, concerns, and give updates on projects. Topics reflected on, presented, and discussed at these events include previous and ongoing community justice and outreach programs, missioning rituals, strategic planning for the motherhouse, jubilees, social justice issues, the closing of Mount St. Joseph and potential locations for a new residence, the new residence at 485 Windermere Road, the Sisters’ community involvement, the finances of the congregation, religious values and interpretation, Medaille Spiritual Ministries Network, struggles of the Sisters, points of pride for the Sisters, the future of the congregation, and the Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada.

Included in this subseries are programs, pamphlets, written reflections, poems, advertisement posters, personal notes, prayers, schedules, lists of Sisters who participated in the Community Days and Assemblies, correspondence, sheet music, articles, scripts of speeches and presentations, and committee and feedback reports. Notable content includes Leadership Circle reports; Assembly agendas (referred to as Order of the House); a pamphlet for the Office for Children and Systemic Justice; an interview with Lynn Jarrell, OSU director of canonical affairs for the Legal Resource Center for Religious; pamphlets for the 350th Anniversary of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Le Puy; a brief biography of Sister Kathleen Pruitt of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace; a summary of congregational activities from September 2003 to February 2005; and the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of the bi-yearly publication Imagine One.

This series contains newsletters pertaining to the congregation. The early newsletters were generally written by the General Superior and addressed to the Sisters of the congregation. Some later newsletters pertained to the amalgamation of four congregations to become The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada in 2012.

Report detailing history of St. Joseph's Hospital between 1975 and 1979; includes correspondence, newspaper articles, ephemera.