Fonds consists of the governance, administrative, and personnel records for the community of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society.
This includes: reports, financial records, meeting minutes, policies and handbooks, General Chapter records, Society Constitutions, correspondence, publications by and about the Society, photographs, audiovisual materials, and personal records of Society members.
In addition to general administrative records of the Society's domestic and international operations, the fonds also contains reference materials and publications from other Catholic missionary societies, collected materials on the Our Lady of Fatima Pilgrimmage tour led by SFM priests, Msgr. William C. McGrath and Rev. Patrick Moore, sub-collections on SFM founder Msgr. John Mary Fraser, and member, Bishop Kenneth Turner, and a collection of ephemera gathered by SFM members over the years documenting their Society.
The Fonds is divided into the following series:
- General Chapters
- General Council
- Governance & Administration
- Civil Corporation
- Society Departments
- Seminary and Novitiate
- Missions
- Personnel
- Society Institutes
- Property and Houses
- Graphic Collection
- Audiovisual Collection
- Our Lady of Fatima Collection
- SFM History Collection
- Msgr. John Mary Fraser Collection
- Bishop Kenneth Turner Collection