File contains correspondence, a greeting card, and vol. 3 is. 5 of Denosa, a publication of the Department of Northern Saskatchewan, featuring an article about Uranium City.

Sisters Patricia Burke and Anna McNally provided social services support and teaching in this First Nations (Chipewyan) community of northwest Saskatchewan. The region is the home of the Clearwater River Dene Nation (Tı̨tëlase tué). Sister Burke served as the director of social services for the La Loche region of the provincial Department of Northern Saskatchewan. During this period, she travelled to the offices in Uranium City and Buffalo Narrows. Sister McNally taught at Ducharme School, where she was vice-principal for three years and was instrumental in the Dene High School adapting the school curriculum to the student needs. The mission was opened in 1975 and closed in 1979.

Subseries consists of community annals, correspondence, mission histories and reference materials, newsclippings, and newsletters from the SOS mission in LaLoche.

The contribution of the Sisters of Service at Pier 21, now a National Historic Site, is honoured in the site's national museum in Halifax, which opened on July 1, 1999. For more than four decades, Pier 21 was known as the Gateway to Canada. From October 1925 until 1969, the Sisters of Service welcomed, assisted, directed and cared for Catholic immigrants, who were part of the one million passengers who embarked from trans-Atlantic boats, ships and ocean liners at this Eastern Canadian point of entry.

In constant demand in the adjacent Immigration Building, the Sisters provided reassurance, encouragement and support to the newly-arrived as well as acted as interpreters. In addition to giving guidance about immigration procedures, the Sisters helped to locate baggage and relatives, send telegrams and buy food for the train journeys. Addresses of the Sisters' residences in six Canadian cities were distributed as well as prayer cards, small religious articles, addresses of foreign-language newspapers and ethnic organizations across Canada. The names and addresses of the immigrants were typed and sent to their future dioceses and parishes.

Over a two-month period in 1926, the Sisters met 30 boats and assisted 2,475 passengers. With the reopening of Pier 21 after the Second World War, the Sisters returned, meeting 98 ships and assisting 23,529 passengers in 1948. Eight years later, immigration continued to escalate and the Sisters met 168 ships carrying 40,596 passengers, more than half of whom were Catholic. During the 44 years at Pier 21, a total of 13 Sisters served with three Sisters concurrently at the port during the peak periods. On the front lines were the Sisters who spoke European languages, particularly Sisters Mary Szostak (1929-1934); Josephine Dulaska (1934-1942,1947-1962); Florence Kelly (1951-1955) and Salvatrice (Sally) Liota (1955-1969).

Subseries consists of publications about the history of Pier 21 and the SOS contributions to it, correspondence about the SOS work at Pier 21, and memorabilia relating to the opening of the Pier 21 Historic site in 1999.

As the first Western Canadian mission of the Sisters of Service, it opened in August 1924 at the request of Archbishop Arthur Sinnott of Winnipeg. Fresh from Novitiate and first vows, foundress Sister Catherine Donnelly and Sister Catherine Wymbs, a First World War nurse, resided temporarily in quarters in one of the two-room buildings at the summer camp. Named after Monsignor Morton, the camp was located on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, about 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

Within eight days, Sister Donnelly started teaching at King Edward School No. 1 and Sister Wymbs, also the mission’s superior, served as the area’s community nurse. In October, Sister Margaret Guest arrived to teach in King Edward School No. 2. By January 1925, the trio moved into a newly-constructed house. A stable was built on the Sister’s property.

In 1937, Sister Alice Walsh began to teach at Bismarck School at Berlo, 10 kilometres from Camp Morton. Instead of travelling each day, the Sister-teacher stayed in the living quarters at the school during the week and return to Camp Morton for the weekends.

All three schools closed in 1967 and the students travelled by bus to the new larger school in Gimli. Sister Lena Renaud taught at Gimli Public School (1967-1983) and was the longest-serving member of Camp Morton from 1953 to 1988. Sister Catherine Donnelly retired to Camp Morton in 1956 until January 1981. The Sisters participated in community life, as well as providing catechetical lessons, sacramental preparation for the adjacent St. Benedict’s church.

In 1974, the Sisters gathered to celebrate their 50th anniversary of the founding of the mission and the 50th anniversary of the first vows of Sisters Catherine Donnelly and Margaret Guest. The mission was closed in 1988 with Sisters Lena Renaud and Margaret Murphy as the last Sisters in the mission.

Subseries consists of administrative and community records from the SOS mission in Camp Morton, Manitoba. Record types inlcude: correspondence, reports, financial records, mission histories, newsclippings, community annals, ephemera from anniversaries and celebrations, and guest books.

This fonds contains 6 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

File contains two publications about Pier 21 which include the SOS work. These are: "Pier 21: An Illustrated History of Canada's Gateway" by Alexa Thompson and Debi van de Weil (2002) and "Pier 21: Stories from Near and Far" by Anne Renaud (2015).

File contains general reference material on the history of Pier 21. This consists of the following publications: "In Transit: Pier 21: Halifax, Nova Scotia" - an exhibition brochure for an installation at Mount Saint Vincent University (1994), "Pier 21: Gateway of Hope" by Linda Granfield (2000), and "The Pier 21 Sotry: 1924-1971" by Employment and Immigration Canada (1978).

This fonds contains 76 accessions and 3 archived websites. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

File contains ribbon-bound booklet "Rural Municipality of Gimli: Historical Highlights: 1887-1987". The booklet features photographs and information about the SOS Sister-teachers in the Camp Morton area schools.

File contains John C. Gottfried's thesis "A History of Education in the Evergreen School Division" presented to the University of Manitoba as part of the requirements for the Master of Education Degree. The thesis includes a section on the SOS teachers in the region. The thesis is signed and a handwritten note on the interior indicates it was gifted to the SOS by Gottfried.

This fonds consists of manuscripts, email correspondence, and promotional material generated from Hausner’s work as a poet, including feedback and promotional material related to Enter the Racoon (2012) and Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020), manuscripts of She Who Lies Above (2023) spanning from its early conception to its publication; correspondence and manuscripts from Hausner’s parents, Susana Wald and Ludwig Zeller; extensive email correspondence from artists and surrealists, records related to literary activities and events such as readings, festivals, and conferences; email correspondence and manuscripts from Hausner’s editorial work at various publications and publishers; records related to Hausner’s employment at the Toronto Reference Library; juvenilia, early academic papers, personal correspondence, and other personal records; and notebooks and agendas.

Contains series:

1. Manuscripts and related records
2. Susana Wald and Ludwig Zeller records
3. Correspondence
4. Professional records
5. Personal and academic records
6. Notebooks and agendas
7. Restricted material
8. Periodicals and books

This fonds contains 11 accession of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

This collection of Walter and Mabel Oldfield’s papers contains correspondence, official documents, reports, diaries, newsletter clippings, and materials related to Mabel’s family history. The accession also includes some documents related to their daughter, Mildred Oldfield (married name Millar), and her experiences as the daughter of Christian missionaries. Mabel and Walter Oldfield’s papers document the activities and priorities of Christian missionaries working in China in the first half of the twentieth century and the couple’s experiences and observations on the significant social and political upheaval in Guangxi, China in the first half of the twentieth century.

This collection includes drafts, notes, proofs, and other materials pertaining to the writing process of writing publications; professional and personal correspondence; newspaper reviews and profiles; publicity materials; research; diaries; books, and magazines. The collection also includes Weinzweig's typewriter and other material related to her personal and professional life.

This series consists of records created by or pertaining to the governance and administration of the Society which fall outside the responsibilities of the General Council (Series 2) and individual departments of the Society (Series 5).

The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Constitutions
2. Office of the Secretary
3. Office of the Treasurer General
4. Cabinet
5. Committees and Commissions
6. Society Meetings
7. Anniversary Celebrations
8. Auxiliary Organizations

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

File contains two versions of the paper "The Redemptorist Influence on the SOS" by MC (Marie-Clare) Havey, SOS archivist; one version a published paper, the other an illustrated presentation.

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

This item is two copies of a 7 page article by Henri Nouwen entitled: Nuclear Man: In search for Liberation, included in Reflection, Volume 70, No. 1, the quarterly journal of Yale Divinity School and the Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972. Nouwen opens the article by describing nuclear man as someone who “does not look forward to the fulfillment of a great desire, nor does he expect that something great or important is going to happen. He looks into empty space and he is only sure that if there is anything worthwhile in life it must be here and now”. Nouwen then states that the purpose of his article is “1. to come to a deeper understanding of our human predicament and 2) to hope to discover in the midst of our present ferment new ways to liberation and freedom”. 1) In the first section Nouwen describes nuclear man as “one who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction and can be characterized by Robert Jay Lifton’s 3 categories of a)’ historical dislocation’ which include the realization that “symbols used by his parents cannot possibly have the unifying and integrating power which they have for people with a pre-nuclear mentality”. There is a lack of continuity with the past. In b) ‘Fragmented Ideology’, there is a condition of “fast-shifting value systems” and nuclear man finds that he “does not believe in anything that is always and everywhere true and valid”. In c) ‘A search for new Immortality’ Nouwen states, “ When man is not able anymore to look beyond his own death and to establish for himself means to relate to what extends beyond the time and space of his own life, he loses his desire to create and with that the excitement of being human”.2) In the second section entitled Nuclear Man’s way to Liberation Nouwen outlines “two main ways by which [nuclear man] tries to break out of his cocoon and fly: the mystical way and the revolutionary way”. a) “The mystical way is the inward way. Man tries to find in the center of his own inwardness, a connection with the ‘reality of the unseen’, with ‘the source of being’, with ‘the point of silence’. b) In The revolutionary Way Nouwen describes someone who “is tired of pruning the trees and clipping branches and wants to pull out the roots of a sick society”. Nouwen concludes this article by asking “Is there a third way, which we can call a Christian way?”. In this third way Nouwen describes Jesus as bringing together in himself both mystic and revolutionary and so “in this sense he remains also for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom”.

Item consists of a booklet from a paper written by Nouwen in late 1983 after his 22-city tour around the U.S. to share his "Call to Peacemaking." There are three copies of the booklet.

Item consists of two copies of John S. Mogabgab's article "The Spiritual Pedagogy of Henri Nouwen."

Item consists of two copies of the article.

Subseries consists of 22 chapbooks, paperback and hardcover books, bound volumes, and associated promotional materials that were designed, composed, and/or printed by Dreadnaught Press.

This fonds contains 87 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Subseries consists of materials relating to the Spiritual Life of members of the SOS. These include prayer books, conferences [retreats and spiritual talks], liturgies for specific feasts, prayers, and spiritual readings.

Consists of correspondence received by Liubchenko from writers, translators, theatre administrators, directors, actors, film studios and editors; records of the literary groups HART and VAPLITE and PROLITFRONT; correspondence and other records dating from WWII; manuscripts and typescripts of Liubchanko's novels, short stories, reports and articles; notes; photographs; books; newspaper clippings; and records relating to the Liubchenko Archive.

This fonds contains one accession of records. See accession-level descriptions for more information.

Accession consists of Department of Spanish and Portuguese student and faculty dossiers, select publications and select MA student’s thesis from 1964-1971.

Fonds consists of records documenting the life, ministry, scholarship, and professional service of Rev. William Henry Irwin, C.S.B. (1932–2024), as a Basilian priest, professor of biblical studies, researcher, and participant in theological and ecclesiastical governance. Dates range from the 1960s to the 2000s, with some earlier genealogical material.

Records reflect Fr. Irwin’s academic appointments and teaching at the University of St. Michael’s College (USMC), the Toronto School of Theology (TST), Wycliffe College, and other affiliated institutions; research and publication in Old Testament theology, Hebrew poetry, prophetic literature (especially Isaiah), psalmody, wisdom literature, and biblical interpretation; participation in professional bodies such as the Society of Biblical Literature; and service on committees responsible for theological education policy, accreditation, and institutional mission within the Congregation of St. Basil and partner colleges in Canada and the United States.

Materials include handwritten research notebooks; annotated typescripts and drafts of lectures, homilies, retreat talks, and scholarly articles; working bibliographies; course syllabi, lecture notes, handouts, and student evaluation forms; correspondence with colleagues, scholars, clergy, and institutional representatives; conference programs, papers, and planning files; editorial and peer review reports; minutes, memoranda, and reports of the Basilian Standing Committee on Theological Education and related bodies; accreditation self-studies, site-visit files, and related correspondence with the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC); published offprints, clippings, and collected excerpts—many with marginalia; maps, graphic materials, and photographs; genealogical research files on the Irwin, Hunsaker, and related families; and a bound personal journal documenting travel, parish work, and academic activities.

While a teacher in southern Alberta, Catherine Donnelly nursed two families during the influenza pandemic in November 1918. Struck with the absence of religious faith in the settlers’ homes, she saw education as a solution through a women religious community, dedicated to teaching in rural public schools. After her unsuccessful attempts of enter a teaching congregation, she and Fr. Coughlan set in motion the planning of an untraditional women’s community. Coughlan contacted the Toronto archbishop and appointed Fr. Daly as a temporary director to find candidates and finances for the new community.

The majority of the records were created during the early years between 1922 and 1938 of the Sisters of Service and document that period through the official and personal correspondence. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically, the records contain much of Fr. Daly's and Sister Donnelly's writings, manuscripts and articles of their specific direction of the community and their general reflections throughout their lives. A complete set of Fr. Daly's circular letters to the community reflect his administrative and spiritual direction. Sister Donnelly's accounts and correspondence capture her underlying philosophy for the community, and are found in memoir Ecumenism Blossom. Her catechetical tours in 1934 and 1936 in the British Columbia interior of the Cariboo area provide an application of her philosophy.

The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Archbishop Neil McNeil
2. Rev. Arthur Coughlan, CSsR
3. Rev. George Daly, CSsR
4. Sr. Catherine Donnelly, SOS
5. Early History

The collection consists of movie posters, ads, trading cards, postcards, books, magazines and journals, related to Frank Buck (Frank Howard Buck (1884-1950), a renowned American hunter, animal collector, film director, actor author and producer. The collection also consists of material related to zoo displays and architecture, catalogues and books related to zoo and animal collecting, photographs off various zoo related animals found in different parts of America and a board game. The material is divided into five series:

1. Frank Buck
2. Chimpanzee performance
3. Zoo Architecture and display
4. Miscellaneous printed materials.
5. Zoo photographs

Fonds contains 2 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Files consists of two copies of the vocal score, stamped "Nov 10 1941". Likely performed by the Culleys on CBC radio.

Subseries consists of materials relating to benefactors of the SOS including correspondence, tributes, reports, scans of newsclippings, financial agreements, bank receipts, and other reference material regarding donations, annuities, and bequests. This includes the Catholic Women's League (CWL), Theresa Small, and donor lists, as well as correspondence and other supplementals regarding specific individual donors.

File contains the following CWL publications: Silver Jubilee, 1945; Winnipeg Diocesan Council, 1921-1981; "Except the Lord Build the House": A History of Social Concern, 1990.

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

File consists of a small bound prayer book, published in 1921, titled "Prayer: The Great Means of Salvation" by St. Alphonsus of Liguori, edited by Rev. John Bapt. Coyle, CSsR.

The Mission Information Department (MID) was established in 1974 to promote and educate on the missionary work of the Society. At its founding, MID took on the tasks of the Promotion Department (founded in 1950), responsible for making Scarboro Missions and its work widely known and generating funds for the Society. MID also took on the tasks of the Public Relations Department (established in 1961), which circulated the Scarboro Missions Magazine and performed outreach.

The MID was originally comprised of four sections: Promotion and Outreach, Magazine & Communications, Audio Visual, and Mission Centre. The Promotion and Outreach team worked on campaigns and produced materials to promote the Society and its work. The Magazine section focused on the publication and distribution of the Scarboro Missions magazine, which ran from 1919-2018. The Audio Visual branch served to promote the work of mission by distributing the Society's multi-media mission education materials. And finally, the Mission Centre ran programmes such as seminars, courses, lectures, conferences, study weeks, retreats, and others.

This subseries consists of records relating to the Mission Information Department and its two precursor departments, Promotion and Public Relations. It includes reports, meeting minutes, memos, correspondence, press releases, circular letters, analyses, and various promotional and fundraising materials. It also includes the collected volumes of the China/Scarboro Missions Magazine.

This fonds consists of materials related to Mary Jane Gormley’s involvement in the editing and publication of Fr. Edward Synan’s texts. Materials largely derive from Gormley’s joint project with Janice Schultz-Aldrich where they took a collaborative effort to publish Fr. Synan’s previously unpublished and sometimes unfinished texts. Records consist of original texts, copy edits, notes, lists, correspondences, articles, books, and more.

This fonds contains the files of Edward Aloysius Synan, accumulated during his time as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Seton Hall University, his time as professor of philosophy at the University of St. Michael's College and the University of Toronto, and his time as professor of mediaeval philosophy at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. His files also include materials from his time as President of the Pontifical Institute.

Materials include:

• papers, addresses, and sermons
• conference notes and presentations
• Projects
• Correspondence
• Class and teaching materials
• Dreyfus materials
• Solidarity materials

Fonds consists of sheet music used by Edith McConica when she accompanied silent films in Luseland, Saskatchewan in the 1920s, as well as some pedagogical sheet music used when she was learning piano from Leora Kridler (Mrs. Milton Herrold) in her home town of Findlay, Ohio, and teaching her children piano in Luseland.

Textual records, graphic material, published books and digital records related to commercial and artistic graphic design by Deborah Barnett. Graphic materials include proofs, sample prints, polymer plates, photographs and film negatives.

File consists of 1 single fold pamphlet containing the poem The Twa Corbies, a Scottish adaptation of an anonymous song.

The back page states:

"Hand-set in Poliphilus type
from the collection of Massey College

Published and printed by Nelson Adams
at the Dreadnaught press
24 Sussex Avenue Toronto Canada"

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:

1. General Chapters
2. General Council
3. Governance & Administration
4. Civil Corporation
5. Society Departments
6. Seminary and Novitiate
7. Missions
8. Personnel
9. Society Institutes
10. Property and Houses
11. Graphic Collection
12. Audiovisual Collection
13. Our Lady of Fatima Collection
14. SFM History Collection
15. Msgr. John Mary Fraser Collection
16. Bishop Kenneth Turner Collection

File contains individual, non-bound issues of the China/Scarboro Missions Magazine.

File contains the complete run of the China/Scarboro Missions Magazine in bound volumes.