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This file contains a scrapbook with photographs, news clippings, postcards, clippings from reports, anecdotes, and ephemera related to Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home in Regina, Saskatchewan. Sister Leona Colterman set up the Pastoral Care Department at Santa Maria Senior Citizen Home and was the director for eight years.

This file contains the pages of a scrapbook by Sister Leona Colterman of Sisters of St. Joseph of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada about her ministry with the Tekakwitha Wickiup and the Saskatchewan Interfaith Pastoral Care Association in Regina, Saskatchewan as well as Groves Park Lodge, Renfrew, Ontario. The Tekakwitha Wickiup, founded in 1976, was a centre which provided counseling, community space, prayer, and information for accessing social services to those in need, particularly among the First Nations community. It encourages self-help and self-sufficiency with a focus on assisting with access to housing and employment. Sister Leona Colterman and Brother Henri Bisson directed the centre. There is correspondence, news clippings, reports, pamphlets, and booklets about the centre. There are also some photographs of community events. Groves Park Lodge is a long-term centre and Sister Leona was also the president of the Groves Park Lodge Auxiliary. There are news clipping and photographs about her activities there as well as meeting minutes.

This file contains a scrapbook with letters of appreciation to Sister Anne (St. Phillip) Morrissey from children at schools where she was a teacher or principal for. There are also news clippings about herself, her students, and her schools and one group photograph.

In 1929, the Sisters arrived from London to serve as educators and administrators in the Archdiocese of Edmonton at the Sacred Heart School in Wetaskiwin until 1942. This series is a historical summary of the events and activities at the Sacred Heart Parish in Wetaskiwin, Alberta by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario. There are handwritten drafts and a final typed copy of the history of the Sisters residence, St. Joseph’s Convent, in the Sacred Heart Parish of Wetaskiwin from 1929 to 1942. The topics include hosting visitors, cultural traditions, retreats, celebrations, church renovations, acquisition of new statues for the chapel, porch construction for the rectory, plumbing repairs, floor waxing, polishing and shining, school musical recitals, purchase of a radio-phonograph for Music and Social Studies classes, and trips north to Edmonton including attending a Teachers Convention. In addition, there is a brochure on the official opening of St. Joseph School (formerly Sacred Heart School) on April 27, 1981. The brochure contains a short history of the school from 1901 to 1978, a program of events including liturgies, hymns, opening and closing greetings, speeches, and presentations. It also contains a list of Trustees, School Staff, Central Office Staff, and a diagram of an aerial layout of the school.

This subseries comprises two guestbooks of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario, during their western mission in St. Patrick’s Parish, in the neighbourhood of Haney in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The guestbooks are signed and dated by people who visited the home of the Sisters on 121st Avenue at St. Joseph’s Convent of Haney, also referred to as Haney’s Convent.