File contains collected publications (including a comic book), pamphlets, postcards, and other ephemera about Mother Mary MacKillop.

Subseries consists of general correspondence from the SOS administration as well as requests from various communities for Sisters of Service to establish a presence there. The general correspondence includes correspondence with other religious organizations and orders. Accompanied by supplemental material related to correspondence including bulletings, reports, meeting summaries, and surveys.

File contains correspondence between Mrs. Small, Fr. Daly, and various art collectors and institutes regarding the painting, believed at the time to be by Reubens, which Theresa Small donated to the SOS. The painting was eventually sold to raise funds. Accompanied by a several newsclippings including a copy of a 2002 article from the Toronto Star detailing the investigation into the paintings origins and true authorship.

Subseries contains records relating to the general finances of the Sisters of Service, particularly in their early year. These include: bonds, financial correspondence, financial reports, ledgers, and other fundraising endeavours.

Series contains atypical, rare, or unique learning materials used in Ontario schools.

The Administration Series consists of the records of Rev. George Daly, CSsR, spiritual and financial director (1922-1956), the elected leadership of Sisters General, council members and later directors, (1937-2011), the changing governance through the Circle Meetings (1998-2011) and the preparation for the Sponsorship Agreement with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto.

Correspondence documents the writing of the rules [of the congregation], approved in 1934 and the process of the rewriting the constitution and statutes between 1978 and its approval in 1983. The spiritual life is documented though community prayers, conferences, and liturgies while correspondence and reports of the original apostolates of the immigration, residences, hospitals, and teaching depict the success and challenges of the missions.

Changes in customs, rules, personnel and missions, as well as deaths and spiritual reflections were relayed through the circular letters of Sisters General and Father Daly. In response to Second Vatican Council’s call for renewal through participation by all members, sisters were kept abreast of the sisters at university and the opening/closing of missions from newsletters, From Headquarters and Council Notes.

Financial correspondence and reports document Fr. Daly’s financial management through bond issues and varied fund-raising options. Records show the early close collaboration and financial support of the Catholic Women’s League, the major contributor for 30 years, and the more than 500 benefactors. Financial statements of the SOS corporation and the Daly Foundation are included, as well as correspondence and documents of real estate purchases and sales.

The correspondence and reports, which are arranged alphabetically and chronologically, consist of the requests to establish missions, and annual reports to archdioceses and dioceses, where the sisters’ missions were located. Correspondence, reports and meeting minutes document the Circle meetings (1998-2011); the developments leading to the sponsorship agreement. At the signing of the agreement on 26 January 2011, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto assumed the administration of the Sisters of Service.

The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Finances
2. Constitution, Rules, Customs
3. Spiritual Life - Prayers, Conferences, Liturgies
4. Apostolates - Immigration
5. Apostolates - Residences
6. Apostolates - Hospitals
7. Apostolates - Teaching
8. Sister General - Circular Letters
9. Sister General - Correspondence, Reports
10. General Council
11. Circle Meetings
12. Directors' Meetings
13. Sisters of Service of Canada Corporation
14. Real Estate
15. Correspondence, Reports - Archdiocese of Toronto
16. Correspondence, Reports - Archdioceses, Dioceses
17. Correspondence - Clergy
18. Correspondence [General]
19. Reports
20. Benefactors, Annuities, Bequests
21. Canadian Religious Conference
22. The Daly Foundation
23. Sponsorship Agreement with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto
24. Archives

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:

1. Minutes
2. Reports and Briefs
3. Circular Letters
4. Newsletters
5. Intra-Council Correspondence
6. Correspondence with Society Departments
7. Correspondence with Missions and Society Houses
8. Correspondence with Holy See
9. Correspondence with Mission Ordinaries
10. Correspondence with Ordinaries
11. Correspondence: Subject
12. Correspondence: General
13. New Mission Searches
14. Diaries
15. Surverys
16. Financial Grants

Subseries consists of materials relating to the SOS work in hospitals. This includes: general correspondence, policies and procedures, speeches, and papers on Catholic healthcare.

Subseries consists of materials relating to the SOS work with immigration to Canada. This covers not just the work in the ports of Halifax, but also the women's residences across Canada, and the processes of helping Catholic immigrants settle into their new communities. Record types include: correspondence, reports, newsclippings, articles by and about the SOS, and reference materials on immigration to Canada, with a focus on Catholic immigrants. Also includes the collected research materials and notes of Sr. Florence Kelly who researched the SOS apostolate with immigrants.

File contains correspondence with the Prague-based organization "Spolek Sv. Rafaela" [St. Raphael's Society]. Accompanied by a postcard from the Society which depicts their work and features an illustration of a Sister of Service greeting Czech immigrants at the ports.

File contains the 1996 pamphlet for the Misericordia Hospital Nurses' Alumni mass, a list of SOS graduates of the school, and photocopies of the 1934 graduation picture, and several other Misericordia Hospital Nursing School and students.

Fonds consists of professional and personal correspondence, drafts of Stein’s published and unpublished writing, and ephemera collected from his life and work in Toronto. The majority of correspondence represents his activities in Toronto and his local political involvement, with some earlier records depicting his time in Paris. Most writing is from his endeavours outside of journalism. Fonds is divided into two sub-series: Correspondence; and Writing. See series descriptions for more detail.

File consists of photography slides depicting Kenyan scenery, architecture, villages, wildlife, vegetation, and various named tribes. Each slide is numbered and labelled with the subject in English, Italian, French, and German.

Fonds consists of the governance, administrative, and personnel records for the community of the Sisters of Service. This includes reports, financial records, meeting minutes, policies, General Chapter records, operational correspondence, publications by and about the SOS, photographic materials, audiovisual materials, personal records of Sisters, and a collection of artifacts and memorabilia related to the SOS.

In addition to records of the SOS members and co-foundress, Sister Catherine Donnelly, the fond also contains records of its priestly co-founders, Archbishop Neil McNeil, Rev. Arthur Coughlan, CSsR, and Rev. George Daly, CSsR.

The Fonds is divided into the following series:

1. Founding
2. Governance and Administration
3. General Chapters
4. Motherhouse
5. Novitiate, Formation, Vocations
6. Missions
7. Personnel
8. Writings
9. Catechetics and Religious Education
10. Photograph and Slide Collection
11. Audio Visual Collection
12. Artifacts and Memorabilia

File contains correspondence with Sybil Connelly regarding her designs for the new SOS habit. Accompanied by 8 of Connelly's sketches, as well as an obituary from her death in 1997.

File contains a photo album documenting the evolution of the SOS habit, a written history of the SOS habit, and an accomapnying note written by Sr. Kathleen Schenck on the history of the SOS habit involving a hat, rather than a veil.

Subseries consists of materials pertaining to the canonical administration of the SOS, the establishment and amendments to their Customs, Rules, and Constitutions, and Diocesean and Vatican approval of said governance structures. These cover the regulations of the day-to-day lives of the Sisters, their dress, their period of formation, profession of vows, as well as higher-level governance and administrative decisions. Record types include forms, correspondence, directories, circular letters, and newsclippings.

File contains correspondence, sketches and photographs, relating to changes to the SOS habit in the 1960s. Accompanied by an article detailing the evolution of the habit from its origins in 1922 to 1982, as well as newspaper clippings documenting a tribute to nuns who worked in Alberta which featured a doll in SOS habit.

File contains correspondence, event brochure, postcard, and copy of a newsclipping relating to the SOS participation and attendance of the Marian Congress in Ottawa.

Contains nose and sinus slides from Michael Hawke, Percy Ireland Day slides, and teaching slides.

The collection is comprised of menus from around the world featuring a variety of cuisines including Afghan, American, Argentinian, Armenian, Asian, Bangladeshi, Brazilian, Burmese, Cambodian, Caribbean, Chinese (Peking, Szechuan, Shanghai, Yunnan, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hunan and Jiangnan), Colombian, Cuban, Dutch, Ecuadorian, Egyptian, European, Filipino, Finnish, French, Hong Kong style, Indian, Indochinese, Indonesian, Islamic, Israeli, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Latin American, Lebanese, Malaysian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Mongolian, Moroccan, Mughlai, Nepalese, Pakistani, Pan-Asian, Peruvian, Russian, Scandinavian, Singaporean, Southwestern, Spanish, Taiwanese, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Venezuelan, Vietnamese, seafood and vegetarian.

Menus are from restaurants located in Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, China (Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai), Egypt, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Turkey, Vietnam, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados Bermuda, Canada (British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon Territory), Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, El Salvador, Greenland, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, the United States (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Australia, New Caledonia (France) New Zealand, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela.

Menus types included placemat menus, single sheet menus, trifold and four fold menus, five fold, seven fold and menus in booklet style. Some menus are laminated while others are in vinyl enclosures. Menus range from take away and delivery, to eat in and include wine lists, menus for cafes, breakfast menus and menus for cafeteria lunches.

The material is divided into Series 1 Menus. The series is divided into 6 subseries: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America.

File consists of photographs of the on-stage reception at MacMillan Theatre celebrating Schabas' appointment.