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The series consists of records concerning reunions, festivals, workshops, and anniversaries. These records comprise of address books, booklets, ceremony schedules, correspondences, event schedules, liturgy and prayer booklets and sheets, mailing lists, former Sisters membership lists, music sheets and hymns, newspaper clippings and photocopies, postcards with envelopes, photographs, and programs.

This series contains the records from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton's ministry in White River, Ontario working with the Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg (formerly known as Pic Mobert) First Nation. Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg First Nation is an Ojibwe community and are part of the Anishinabek Nation and Nokiiwin Tribal Council. In 2002 Sisters Susan Kerrigan and Jude Stradiotto of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton moved to White River to work with Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg First Nation. While there they did parish, social service, and health care ministry such as conducting home visits, supporting youth, operating a foot care clinic, and supporting the Mobert Church among other activities. The Sisters left in 2020. This series contains correspondence, newsletters, a copy of the agreement between the Sisters and Band Council, and an application to the Catholic Healing and Reconciliation Evaluation Committee by the Missionary Oblate Sisters for this ministry.

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 records relating to the administration for The Hope Project in London, Windsor, and Edmonton, and 61 applications for grants from the London Hope Project. The records include correspondence, brochures, notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, budget records, a booklet, applications, receipts, and business cards.

This series contains documents relating to tertianship classes run in the 1950s and 1960s. There are programs, transcripts, a crucifix, booklets on religious scholarship, and photographs. Of particular interest is a history of the Congregation with a timeline.

This series contains the records from the Sisters' community house in Stoney Creek, Ontario. This includes annals, lists of Sisters who lived here, a historical summary, photographs, and house meeting minutes. In 1957, three Sisters of St. Joseph of Hamilton, Ontario arrived in Stoney Creek to their new community house, a renovated farmhouse. While living here the Sisters were involved in education, health care, and pastoral ministry.

Fonds contains two essays about the history of the hospital and a copy of a letter.

This series contains qualitative and quantitative statistical data collected by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario on their activities from 1858 to 2009. The statistics are presented in surveys, lists, quantitative summaries, and a timeline as well as related correspondence. Some of the information was collected to be reported to external parties or based on events, such as Sisters’ jubilees, as well as the use of lay and religious names after Vatican II. Major topics of the data include demographics, leadership, deaths, and occupations within the community and the Sisters’ various ministries. The Sisters’ ministries include administration of motherhouses, care of orphans and the elderly, education, healthcare, retreat centers, marriage tribunals, parish and pastoral work, and works of mercy. Works of mercy summarizes various charitable activities, such as a foster home for the severely disabled, a refugee house, various recovery and rehabilitation homes, youth ministry, and ministry to Indigenous communities. Major locations for the Sisters’ activities include Ontario, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories, though the material is primarily focused on Ontario and Alberta.

Some of the statistics prepared for external parties were reported to the diocese of London and published in the Ontario Catholic Year Book and Directory, and to the Sisters of St. Joseph of the French Federation for the 350th anniversary of the Foundation in Le Puy. Other statistics were collected in reports and questionnaires for various offices of the Holy See to be used in the creation of the Annuario Pontificio, the Holy See’s annual directory, and the Statistical Yearbook of the Church. Accompanying these statistics is correspondence and a guide outlining the duties and powers of congregational leadership and the canons which govern the constitution of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario. There are also reports and correspondence concerning the canonical visits of the Bishop of the diocese of London, and about Sisters being appointed Treasurers at various institutions operated by the congregation.

The fonds contains records created during the course of business of St. Mary’s Hospital and Marian Villa. The records present include meeting minutes and agendas, a donations list, a chronology of St. Mary’s Hospital, written histories, newspaper photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, correspondence, reports, a pamphlet, publications, memorandums, meeting minutes, reports, a study, a scrapbook, a photo album, photographs, architectural drawings, a certificate of accreditation, and constitutions and by-laws.