Subseries 02 - Sister Elaine Cole Chronicles

2 cm of textual records

This subseries contains the self-authored annals of Sister Marie Noel (Elaine) Cole when she lived in Leamington, Ontario from 2002 to 2012. The topics primarily include her ministry work as the Pastoral Minister for St. Michael’s Church in Leamington. Sister Elaine Cole was born in Leamington and entered the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London in 1956. Her Leamington ministry included attending various monthly meetings such as the Pastoral Council Meeting, Pastoral Advisory Council Meeting, Essex Deanery Meeting, Leamington Ministerial Meeting, St. Michael’s Building Fund Committee Meeting, Community Systems Meeting, and the Chapter Preparations Meeting. Her pastoral work also included nursing homes and hospital visits of the sick and infirmed to the Leamington District Memorial Hospital, Erie Shores Healthcare Community Hospital, Sun Parlour Home, Leamington Nursing Home, Erie Glen Retirement Home, and the Mennonite Home. As part of her duties, Sister Elaine Cole also participated in fundraising events for distressed people in Haiti and Peru, and she helped with the Indian Ocean tsunami relief work for Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Indonesia, and Thailand. She also wrote about teaching choir at St. Joseph’s Church in Leamington, helping to assemble the parish float “Light up the Night” in the Santa Claus Parade, decorating St. Michael’s Church for Thanksgiving and Christmas, photographing seniors for the Parish Photo Directory, delivering a speech on International Women’s Day, going to the Auto Show in Detroit (USA), traveling to Windsor for the Windsor Symphony and seeing musicals and films, and sewing doll quilts. In addition, this subseries also includes news clippings from 2014 relating to cultural events in Leamington, a concert fundraiser for St. Michael’s Parish organized by the St. Michael’s Building Committee, and the sale of the H. J. Heinz Company factory plant purchased by the Highbury Canco Corporation.