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This series consists of records documenting the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton’s time and ministries while living at 18 Maple Avenue, Brantford. Brantford, Ontario is located on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg and is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties and adjacent to Haldiman Treaty territory. Sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario moved to 18 Maple Avenue in 1976 after the closing of the convent at 75 Pearl Street. The Sisters were primarily involved in education and parish ministry. The Sisters moved out of 18 Maple Avenue on July 5, 1990. The records present include annals, news clippings, personal accounts, pamphlets, photographs, photo albums, a Local Community Handbook, furniture inventories, correspondence between Sisters, a financial statement, and a form and a service guide from the closing of the 18 Maple Avenue residence.

This series contains records created and accumulated by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario during their mission in Arthur, Ontario. The records include annals, historical summaries, meeting minutes, financial reports, correspondence, postcards, an offer to purchase property, two photograph albums, a booklet from the 150th anniversary of St. John the Evangelist Church, and The Way We Were Stories and Illustrations Vol. 1 No. 1 which records highlights of Arthur's early history. Arthur, Ontario is located within the Saugeen Anishnaabek of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation people which includes the Chippewas of Saugeen and the Chippewas of Nawash. It is the traditional territory of the Anishinabek Nation: The People of the Three Fires known as the Ojibway, Odwaa, and Pottawatomie Nations. On January 6, 1873, Sister M. Joseph Galvin, Sister Scholastica Mannix, and Sister M. Celestine Burns of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario arrived in Arthur, Ontario. Father Laussie, a priest in Arthur, had requested their assistance to meet the needs of the area. Sister M. Joseph was appointed as the local Superior. St. Joseph’s Convent was erected in 1887. In Arthur, the Sisters’ main ministry was to teach, but other apostolates were also undertaken such as that of sacristan, organist, music teacher, homemaker, parish ministry, and the visitation of the ill. The last Sister left in 1995.

This series contains the records created by and collected by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario during their time living at 20 Emerald Street South, Hamilton. The Good Shepherd Women’s Centre, where women in need could find short-term accommodations, operated at 20 Emerald Street South, Hamilton, Ontario. The Brothers of the Good Shepherd were the owners of the centre, but it was staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton. Sister Madeleine Graf was director upon the opening in January 1983. Initially, the space was shared with the Catherine Brock Rehabilitation Centre for Alcoholic Women, but that ended by March 1st. An addition to the building was completed in February 1986. The third floor of the building was the Sisters’ residence. The Sisters called the building Martha House in honour of Mother Martha Von Bunning and had her story displayed by the door. General Superior Sister Ann Marshall lived here for a time. The Sisters living here were involved in other ministries in the area, including healthcare, education, and parish ministry. In 1991 the Sisters moved out to make more space to provide for women and children in need. The records present include annals, news clippings, programmes, a poster, and an invitation.

This series contains the annals of the Congregation of the Sisters if St. Joseph of Hamilton's activities while living at the Community house at 161 Homewood Avenue, Hamilton. The Sisters lived here from 2005 to 2025. The topics include, but are not limited to: the ministries and social activities of the Sisters who lived here, weather, amalgamation into the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada, closing of the Hamilton Motherhouse, and world events. There are also photographs, news clippings, and hand-outs and programmes from various events.

This series contains the records from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario's mission in Hespeler, Ontario. The records include the annals recording the Sisters' activities, news clippings, a Papal Blessing, a history of St. Joseph's School in Hespeler, correspondence, and a list of supplies. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario came to Hespeler on August 29th, 1944. Three Sisters moved to a house, St. Joseph’s Convent, in the town. While there the Sisters taught at separate schools in the area. The Sisters left Hespeler in 1961.

This series contains the records from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario's Mount Forest mission. Mount Forest is part of the Township of Wellington North which is located on the treaty lands and traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee.

On August 24, 1908, three Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton arrived in Mount Forest. Sister M. Gertrude Cashen was the Superior with Sister M. Clement Kehoe and Sister M. Eucheria Foley as teachers at St. Mary’s School. The Sisters withdrew in 1932 but returned on August 18, 1944, upon the request of Father Thomas Doyle. Sister St. Philip Long came as the Superior with Sister St. Hyacinth Ohlheiser and Sister Eulalia Marie Robinson as teachers. While in Mount Forest the Sisters taught at St. Mary’s School, taught music, and did parish ministry. In 1978 the Sisters withdrew from Mount Forest for the final time due to steady decline in religious vocations.

Records present include annals, historical summaries, news clippings, lists of Sisters, cards, programmes, financial reports, and a poem by Tony Schouten.

This series contains the records of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario's Toronto Community. Beginning in the fall of 1989 the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario living and working in Toronto formed a semi-official community where they could gather to share prayer and discuss their ministries. Sister Anne Anderson become the local leader of this group in 1991. The others involved in this community were Sisters Carol King, Pat Valeriote, Barbara Kenrick, and Margaret Doherty. This series contains the annals and a convocation programme from the University of St. Michael's College.

This series contains the annals of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario related to their motherhouse, St. Joseph's Convent. There are also scrapbooks, news clippings, correspondence, meeting minutes, a photograph, and a drawing related to the annals.

In 1852, Mother Martha von Bunning, Sister Aloysius Walker, and Sister M. Joseph McDonnell of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto arrived at the first convent at MacNab Street and Cannon Street in Hamilton, Ontario. The Sisters moved to St. Joseph’s Convent at Park Street and Colbourne Street in 1857. The Sisters cared for orphan girls, taught music, taught in the separate schools, visited hospitals, prisons, the sick and the poor, and served as sacristans, homemakers, and catechetics teachers.

The Sisters remained in this convent for 94 years until the second motherhouse, St. Joseph’s Convent on Northcliffe Avenue in Dundas, opened in 1951. It was designed by Marani & Morris Architects and spans a length of 250 feet to accommodate approximately 200 residents. It used a variety of locally sourced materials, such a sandstone from Credit Valley Quarries and limestone from Niagara Falls. The building had a copper roof, 125-foot-tall bell tower, and 12-foot steel cross. The bell, a gift from Sophia MacNab, was originally from Dundurn Castle. The convent was built by Pigott Construction and was completed in time to celebrate the Sisters’ 100th anniversary in Hamilton.

The Sisters departed from St. Joseph’s Convent in January 2020 and the property was sold.

Hamilton is located on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. The land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant and the Between the Lakes Purchase of 1792.

This series contains records created and accumulated by the office of the General Treasurer for the Sisters of St. Joseph in London, Ontario. The records are primarily related to managing the donations given by and to the Sisters and the funding for their ministries, missions, Motherhouses, residences, and outreach projects. In London, St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre provided food security programs, Medaille Retreat House was a spiritual retreat centre for the Sisters, the Queens Avenue building was a home for women in need, and the Boulee Street house was a ministry to the poor. The Adult Spirituality Centre, St. Joseph’s Manor, the Foster Home on St. Rose Avenue, and Holy Rosary Convent were all in Windsor. St. Joseph’s Manor and the Foster Home were ministries to children in need and Holy Rosary Convent was the main convent for the Windsor Sisters. The Adult Spirituality Centre in Windsor provided spiritual direction and retreats. Another spiritual retreat, Marygrove, was in Aylmer. Outside of Ontario, there are records concerning the Photo History Project at Ataguttaaluk School in Igloolik, Nunavut in which Sister Mary Diesbourg participated, the Sisters at St. Joseph Regional House in Edmonton, Alberta, and the mission in Peru including the collaboration with Heart-Links, a London based charity focused on Peru.

The series includes reports, meeting agendas and minutes, mission statements, budgets, floorplans, funding proposals and requests, grant applications, forms, lists of Sisters involved with specific projects and sites, and correspondence concerning funding, donations, location changes, operations, and testimonials from the public supporting the Sisters’ projects. There are also resolution agreements from the Sisters’ projects. One agreement is with the sole shareholder of a company connected to a property owned by the London congregation, Marygrove, concerning the finances and leadership positions within the company. The other agreement is between the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and the Sisters of St. Joseph to decide the future of the Adult Spirituality Center.

One of the ways that Sisters could request funding for their ministries from the congregation was through the Apostolic Services Fund. Arrangements for the creation of this fund, outlines of requirements to qualify for funding and funding applications are included.

Not all the material is concerned with finances. Some records pertain to other projects the General Treasurer was involved with, particularly when Sister Loretta Manzara held the office. In 2007, the Sisters moved from Mount St. Joseph to a new LEED certified residence at 485 Windermere Road. in the series includes records related to this transition such as the Sisters’ Statement of Values, reports, pamphlets, news clippings, an issue of London Citylife, and newsletters (one of which was titled Crossing Over). There is also material concerned with the sale of Mount St. Joseph, the former Motherhouse.

At the 2012 Foundation Day, the Annals Project was presented. It focused on a shift from keeping annals to looking at the life of the entire congregation as expressed through Chapter reports. Pamphlets, agendas, meeting minutes, and a report on this project are present. Accompanying this material are annotated photocopies of various reports covering the Sisters’ activities from 1959 to 2011 which were referenced for the project.

Records related to the London Sisters’ involvement in Goderich, Ontario are also present, such as correspondence and pamphlets about their commitment to the area and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first convent outside London.

The series also includes descriptions of icons painted by Sister Mary Anthony Hartleib, as well as prints of some of her artwork (including on the back of her funeral card), and photographs of artwork by Philip Aziz. Other photographs in the series are from the mission in Peru and of students and elders in the report for the Photo History Project at Ataguttaaluk School.

This series contains the annals documenting the history of St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre (also known as the Hospital Centre, Soup Kitchen, and later as St. Joe’s Café) in London by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario. St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre had three different locations, first at 746 Dundas Streete East, then at 707 Dundas Street East, and then at 602 Queens Avenue. St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre was a project to assist those in need by providing social services such as food, referrals, comradeship, and pastoral care. This series contains two chronicles of St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre’s history. The first chronicle relates to 746 Dundas Street East, from 1982 to 1991, and includes news clippings from 1985 to 1991. The second chronicle relates to 707 Dundas Street East, from 1989 to 1995, and includes news clippings from 1990 to 1995. There is correspondence regarding engaging the neighbourhood community in discerning the future of the centre from 2005 to 2006. There are lists of Sisters and lay people who volunteered from 1983 to 2005, statistical sheets on how many meals were served, the number and types of clients, major purchases, and items donated to furnish St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre.

This series has newspaper articles on St. Joseph’s Hospital Centre and topics discussing the socio-cultural-economic situation in Ontario from 1984 to 2022. There are also printed articles, one written by Larry Mckenzie, Consultant at McKenzie Hospitality Group in London, and another by Leonard A. Lesser, a Consultant in Education and Career Counselling in Hamilton, Ontario. There are also two pamphlets advertising the services offered at the 707 Dundas Street East location and an invitation card for a social gathering event during National Volunteer Week on April 30, 1992. There are loose photographs depicting the beginnings of St. Joseph’s Hospital Centre in 1983, a panorama of the dining room and front counter area, new kitchen equipment, and the re-blessing and reopening of St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre on May 9, 2005, after the rebuild from a fire.

This series also contains a scrapbook with official letters inside addressed to Sister Marie Jean Klatt on her nomination for the Ontario Senior Achievement Award from the Minister for Senior Citizens’ Affairs, Ron Van Horne, in June 1987 and from Mavis Wilson in 1989. The scrapbook also has news clippings, newsletters produced by the Knights of Columbus and St. Patrick’s Church, a pamphlet thanking volunteers, a poem titled “True Happiness,” and a photograph of Sister Mary Jean Klatt and volunteers preparing hot meals at St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre.

In addition, there is a photo album compiled by Sister Mary Jean Klatt. There are photographs of the interior and exterior of the St. Joseph’s Hospital Centre, as well as donors, staff, and volunteers, cooking and serving meals, and cleaning up the dining room and kitchen areas. There are also photographs of picnic events with games and contests, handicrafts displayed in the Hospitality Centre’s front window, and Christmas celebrations with Santa Claus. The photo album contains newspaper articles related to her ministry at the St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre. There is a pamphlet inside the photo album written by Sister Mary Jean Klatt that has several lists of the names of patrons, donors, staff, and volunteers, and the number of meals served from 1983 to 1986.