Subseries 22 - Halifax, Tobin Street, Nova Scotia

In 1941, the Sisters moved from Morris Street to a larger residence at 5206 Tobin Street, which was located at Barrington and Tobin Street just across the park from Pier 21 where the Sisters assisted newly-arrived immigrants for four decades. Accommodating up to 34 young women between the ages of 17 and 25, the women’s residence/hostel offered a home-like setting, balancing religious atmosphere with recreational activities sewing, dances, showers and wedding breakfasts. For five decades, the Sisters from the residences held catechetical classes local parishes, summer camps at White’s Lake and Meaford Beach (1949-1955) and visited the city’s hospitals. The Tobin Street residence closed in 1991.

Subseries consists of correspondence, financial reports, imigration reports, advisory board meeting minutes, anniversary celebrations, community annals, newsclippings, background historical materials, and documents from the closing of the Tobin Street mission.

The SOS had several missions in Halifax. Upon transfer to USMC, the records from each of these were arranged as discrete subseries, this distinction has been maintained. Received arrangement altered by USMC processing archivist; several loose financial statements were integrated into correspondence and reports files in accordance with the existing arrangement.

Created by F Rousselle Dec 18, 2025.

Mission history by SOS archivist, MC Havey, inherited upon transfer to USMC.