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- 1908-2025; bulk 1920- (Creation)
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7.3m of textual records (62 boxes).- some photographs and cartographic materials.- 1 MB of electronic records (PDF)
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Scope and content
This series consists of records documenting the work of the General Council of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society. It is divided into the following subseries:
- Minutes
- Reports and Briefs
- Circular Letters
- Newsletters
- Intra-Council Correspondence
- Correspondence with Society Departments
- Correspondence with Missions and Society Houses
- Correspondence with Holy See
- Correspondence with Mission Ordinaries
- Correspondence with Ordinaries
- Correspondence: Subject
- Correspondence: General
- New Mission Searches
- Diaries
- Surverys
- Financial Grants
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Further accruals expected.
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Series arrangement maintained as received during transfer except where indicated by a note at the subseries level.
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Access is restricted to the following subseries: 1. General Council Minutes, 2. Intra-Council Correspondence. 7. Correspondence with the Missions and Society Houses.
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The General Council did not formally exist until 1940 and the approval by the Holy See of the Society's Constitutions, however, this series includes pre-1940 records for Society affairs which would eventually become the responsibility of the General Council.
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Created by F Rousselle 9 October, 2024.
Revised by F Rousselle 14 July 2025.
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Series description inherited upon transfer to USMC.