Records in the fonds relate to Vivienne Poy’s family, education, writing and publishing, entrepreneurship, business and community leadership, philanthropy, public service and public profile. Record types include business and personal correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, awards and photographs, and sound recordings that make up an oral history collection.

The fonds consists of four series: Family and education; Political papers; Personal, business and community; and Awards and Photographs. Many of Poy’s records are functionally and thematically interrelated across the four series and between files.

File consists of 59 slides featuring photographs taken around Israel. It is likely that Nouwen took these photographs while on a trip to Israel in the late 1950s. It does not appear as though Nouwen is in any of the photographs. Some photographs do feature individuals, but the photographs mostly feature landscapes and buildings, including photographs of Nazareth, Haifa, Judea mountains, and a kibbutz.
The slides are numbered, in Nouwen's hand, and included in the file is a list which matches the numbers and briefly describes the contents. List is in Dutch.

Records in the fonds relate to the founding, development and activities of the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter. Record types include meeting minutes, business correspondence, funding applications, position papers, media releases, newspaper clippings, and photographs and negatives.

The fonds consists of seven series: Minutes, etc.; Funding applications; Organizational memberships and correspondence; Projects and issues; Legal cases; Publications and photographs; and News clippings.

Many of the organization’s records are functionally and thematically interrelated across the series and between files.

Records in the fonds were created and collected by David Lai in his teaching and research capacity based in Victoria, British Columbia. Records relate to his 35-year tenure at the University of Victoria which spanned research and teaching on the geography of China, Hong Kong, and other Pacific Rim countries.

Records relate to Lai’s research and heritage conservation efforts that spanned North American Chinatowns as overseas Chinese communities. Records reflect a focus on Victoria’s Chinatown and other Chinese Canadian communities as products of emigration and immigration.

A series relates to Lai's award recognitions and publishing (i.e. his CV).

A series relates to Lai's research on Asian-themed malls and their development in the Greater Vancouver (Richmond) and Greater Toronto areas in the late-1990s.

Records in the fonds were created and collected by members of the Jai family in their personal and family lives which developed around their deep practice and love for Cantonese opera and traditional Chinese music. Records reflect their use and command of the art forms to build early Chinese identity, family, community and culture in Canada, with a focus on Toronto and Vancouver.

The fonds consists of four series arranged by record type: Photographs; Textual records; Recordings; and Artifacts.

Many records are thematically interrelated across the four series and between files.

Sub-series consists of original published articles written and cowritten by Nouwen, about Nouwen or of interest to Nouwen between 1956 and 1965. A majority of the articles are dated between 1956 and 1958 with others being undated and one article by Nouwen's uncle, Antonius (Toon) Ramselaar, written ca. 1965 (at p. 12). A photograph featuring a "Wayside Shine" in Dublin, Ireland is found on p. 8. All articles are described to the item level except for the two by Ramselaar.

This series consists of correspondence, notes, and ephemera regarding publications and presentations by Professor Wolfe. It also includes correspondence related to his position at University College, and his leave of absence during 1990 – 1993.

This series consists of records covering Professor Wolfe’s involvement with the Ontario NDP and his position as the Executive Coordinator of Economic and Labour Policy for the Government of Ontario. This includes memos and drafts about policy, as well as reference documents. Series also contains select working materials and writings pertaining to projects undertaken by Wolfe for the Ontario government.

This series consists of student and labour advocacy materials, including publications, meeting minutes, and proposals for organizations such as the Canadian Union of Students, Ontario Waffle, and the Canadian Labour Congress. This series also includes drafts and working materials for Wolfe’s theses completed as part of his Master of Arts from Carleton in 1973, and his PhD from U of T in 1980, as well as materials used for instruction during Professor Wolfe’s time in the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Department of Political Science.

This fonds contains records related to the professional activities of Professor David Wolfe, including his early academic career, his time as Executive Coordinator for Economic and Labour Policy in the Government of Ontario, and his academic publications and activities in the following years. The fonds consists of two accessions, B2019-0002 and B2025-0005, which have both been divided into series.

General account books, land survey reports, land transaction records and letter books of King's College and University of Toronto (ca. 1828-1921); account books, land records, letter books and records relating to restoration and scholarship funds of Upper Canada College (ca. 1828-1909); records relating to commissions (ca. 1848-1905); correspondence with the Office of the Bursar relating to land transactions (ca. 1851-1890) and financial records of extra-curricular societies and clubs (1898-1912).

File consists of reference materials such as newsclippings, newsletters, and miscellaneous notes describing the Churchill community and the SOS activities there. Accompanied by six colour postcards depicting Churchill, Manitoba.

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

Subseries consists of recordings and programs from events in the University of Toronto New Music Festival (UTNMF), an international festival of contemporary music presented annually by the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and organized by Norbert Palej.

This item is a half-page article by Henri Nouwen entitled ‘Love protects aloneness’ published in the National Catholic Reporter, undated but possibly July or Sep. 1974. Nouwen is continuing his focus on the importance of solitude for the spiritual development of the individual. He begins, ‘By slowly converting my loneliness into a deep solitude, I create that precious space where I can distinguish the voice telling me about my inner necessity- that is, my vocation’. He follows this point by raising the question, ’How many people can claim their ideas, opinions and viewpoints as their own?’. He states that ‘frequently, we are restlessly looking for answers, going from door to door, from book to book, or from school to school, without having really listened carefully to the questions’. Nouwen points out that our society tends to pull us away from fruitful solitude and encourages seeking answers instead of listening to the questions. He suggests that in solitude we can become present to ourselves and from this we become closer to others. ‘In this solitude we encourage each other to enter into the silence of our innermost being and discover there the voice which calls us beyond the limits of human togetherness to a new communion.’

Sub-series consists of four original published articles written by Nouwen in 1956 and 1958. All articles are described to the item level. Two articles are copies of those found in the other scrapbooks. It appears that Nouwen prepared this scrapbook while studying at Nijmegen (1957-1964) and gave it to his mother in July 1975.

Item consists of a small orange hard-bound notebook featuring musical notes on its cover. The notebook is entitled, "Adagio: Musical Reflections", but is otherwise blank.

Item consists of a large hard-bound notebook featuring a cat and spider on its cover. Notebook contains Nouwen's biographical notes on Lorenzo Sforza-Cesarini.

Item consists of a hard-bound, black, legal-sized notebook. Notes are regarding a prayer written in an unknown hand and sermons. Subjects of sermon notes include L'Arche; John 6:1-15; living in joy; John 21:17-19; Servant Leadership: The Disciplines of Discipleship; and Can You Drink the Cup? (Matthew 20:20-23).

A collection of kibbutz and secular haggadot dating from the mid-1930s to the mid-1990s. Many are self-published, some are commercially printed. Most are illustrated. Among the kibbutzim represented are Giv'at Brenner, Deganyah, Ramat ha-Kovesh, and Bet ha-Shitah. The secular haggadot are put out by youth groups, army units, schools, Zionist organizations in Israel and in the diaspora, including Chile, Brazil, Australia, United States and various European countries. The collection also includes a number of Passover-related publications such as synagogue and army base newsletters published before Passover. The collection was assembled by Jerusalem collector Arnold Druck.

File contains general administrative correspondence and reports from the SOS mission at Lagauchetiere Street, Montreal. Correspondence is with other SOS, the Catholic Women's League, Fr. George Daly, and Abbe Casgrain. Accompanied by suplemental documents including pamphlets, a report on immigration from the Quebec government, and by-laws of the SOS hostel on Lagauchetiere.

File contains correspondence and reports from the SOS mission at Drummond St., Montreal. Includes correspondence internal to the SOS, Fr. George Daly, Abbe Casgrain, other clergy, and the Catholic Women's League of Canada, especially the Montreal Chapter's Immigration and Traveller's Aid Committee. Accompanied by some scans of newspaper clippings relating to the SOS work in Montreal.

Fonds consists of material documenting the professional life and work of Prof. Judith Friedland. Records focus on her education and career within academia, in particular as a professor, and former Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy. Material also covers some aspects of Prof. Friedland’s career working as an occupational therapist. Records include typescripts and presentation notes, administrative records from the Department of Occupational Therapy, teaching and course material, clinical notes, correspondence, awards, and biographical material.

The history of occupational therapy in Canada has significant coverage through records related to the research and publication of Prof. Friedland’s book, Restoring the Spirit, as well as through the collected records of Helene Primrose LeVesconte, Thelma Cardwell, and Isobel Robinson. Represented in Series 8 to 10, these three individuals each served as former heads of the UofT’s Department of Occupational Therapy, in addition to teaching and practicing occupational therapy. The collected historical material includes minutes, typescripts, correspondence, artifacts and teaching material.

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.

Women’s Residence (1932-1968)

At the invitation of the Rosary Hall Association, the Sisters of Service assumed the ownership and its social work in October 1931. Founded in 1919, the association raised $25,000 to build an addition to Rosary Hall to accommodate 50 young women. The house at 478 Albert Street in downtown Ottawa was built by Thomas Seaton Scott, the first Dominion Architect. Rosary Hall provided a temporary home for women seeking employment in the city or convalescing after sickness. Under the Sisters of Service, the residence continued to provide a home-like atmosphere for young women from the local area as well as for immigrant women. St. Anthony’s Club, a social club at the residence, provided a meeting place for immigrants working as domestics, where they participated in sports, crafts, social and religious activities. The residence also offered an employment service. At the outbreak of the Second World War, immigration ceased and women from all parts of Canada flocked to Ottawa for employment. Sister Nora Fitzpatrick was a member of the staff of the Ottawa Housing registry, which found accommodation for women war workers in Ottawa. She looked after the interests of English-speaking Catholics. In the years following the war, Rosary Hall continued services to young women 17 to 21 years of age, who have come to Ottawa to work and to study in short courses. In May 1966, Madame Pauline Vanier, wife of the Governor General, visited the residence to attend the annual tea of the Catholic Women’s League in Ottawa for the benefit of Rosary Hall. The residence was closed in August 1968.

Sister Ella Zink (1968-1987)

Sister Zink held a series of positions in Ottawa. A member of the permanent secretariat office of the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC), she served as its general secretary (1965-1968) and as its public relations director (English section, 1967-1973). For the Catholic Hospital Association of Canada (1973-1975), she was assistant executive director for public relations and publications. At the YMCA and YWCA as the public relations officer (1975-1980), she broke new ground as a vowed religious Sister working for a non-religious organization. During her years in Ottawa, she also was a member of the publicity committee of the Social Planning Council of Ottawa-Carleton and a board member of the Catholic Family Services of Ottawa. In 1980-1982, Sr. Zink served as chair of the Canadian Public Relations Society of Canada. As chief examiner of the society (1973-1987), she headed a board, which approved the accreditation of public relations practitioners. She received an award of merit from the society.

Sister Mary Ellen Francoeur (1994-2008)

Sister Mary Ellen Francoeur with a doctorate in clinical psychology and training in spiritual direction, conducted a clinical practice. Deeply involved in the peace movement, she became the national president of Religions for Peace Canada as well as many social justice projects.

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, newsclippings, scrapbooks, community annals, activity lists, and visitors books from the Ottawa missions.

The Sisters purchased a larger house on 1923 Dorchester Street West to concentrate on women, providing instruction in language and domestic skills. Opened in January 1935, the semi-detached residence had been built in 1894 and owned by railway magnate Lord Thomas Shaughnessy, the third president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1940, the Sisters bought the house on the west side, which had been owned by Lord Strathcona, who co-founded the CPR and drove the last spike to open the railway. With the two houses, the residence provided rooms for 80 residents. Besides the residence, the Sisters continued immigration work, especially assisting the Sudeten refugees in 1939-1940 and immigrants after the Second World War. For girls, aged 6 to 17 years, the Sisters started a club in 1940 to provide recreation at Goose Village, part of the Montréal Redemptorist parish of St. Ann’s.

The closing of the residence resulted from the ending of funding by the Federation of Catholic Community Services of Montréal in 1971 and the expropriation of land around the house for an exit for the Trans Canada Highway in 1971. The Sisters decided to close the residence by August 1973. Two months later, the Québec Government designated it as a heritage property. Architect Phyllis Lambert, daughter of industrialist Sam Bronfman, purchased the property for the Canadian Architectural Conservatory.

Subseries consists of correspondence, financial reports, immigration and Displaced Persons reports, ration cards, newsclippings, community annals, registers, scrapbooks, and account books from the SOS mission on Dorchester Street in Montreal.

At the request of Archbishop Gauthier, the Sisters in 1926 assumed the management of Catholic Women’s League (CWL) Hostel. Known as Loretta House, the three-story residence at 450 Rue de la Gauchetière Ouest was located on the eastern downtown area of Montréal. Close to the harbour, the house became a refuge for immigrants. After the Sisters met the trains, men, women and children were brought back to the hostel for a short-term stay. Upon the archbishop’s request, the Sisters also visited the Detention Centre, where the immigrants were detained. When the hostel work outgrew its location, a larger house was opened in April 1928 on Drummond Street, close to Mount Royal and McGill University. All the subdivisions of the Montréal CWL contributed to the furnishing of the house. In addition to the Immigration work, the hostel accommodated families temporarily until they were released from immigration regulations. The mission was closed in November 1934.

Subseris consists of correspondence, reports, financial records, community annals, immigration reports, and a scrapbook related to the Drummon St. mission.

At the request of Archbishop Gauthier, the Sisters in 1926 assumed the management of Catholic Women’s League (CWL) Hostel. Known as Loretta House, the three-story residence at 450 Rue de la Gauchetière Ouest was located on the eastern downtown area of Montréal. Close to the harbour, the house became a refuge for immigrants. After the Sisters met the trains, men, women and children were brought back to the hostel for a short-term stay. Upon the archbishop’s request, the Sisters also visited the Detention Centre, where the immigrants were detained. When the hostel work outgrew its location, a larger house was opened in April 1928 on Drummond Street, close to Mount Royal and McGill University.

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, community annals, and a scrapbook from the Lagauchetiere Street mission.

Following the closure of the Dorchester St. mission in Montreal, the remaining Sisters moved to a house in Westmount. Sister Nora FitzPatrick worked at Ville Marie Social Service Centre. The house was sold to the Sisters of Notre Dame, who took possession in the summer of 1984.

Subseries consists of the correspondence and reports from the Sisters at the Elm Avenue house.

The teaching mission in this Northern Alberta community began when a new four-room Rosary School opened in 1952. During the 28 years as a mission, 13 Sisters taught at the school, with three Sister teachers over the 1957-1969 period after the expansion of the school, including an auditorium. The first Grade 12 class graduated in 1958. Two other aspects of the mission evolved when Sister Mary Harding worked as a nurses’ aide at the Manning Municipal Hospital (1970-1973). After Sister Anna Green, also an artist, arrived in 1961, the basement of the Sisters’ residence was converted into a studio, where she taught oil painting to interested local women. This artists group met until the mission closed in 1980.

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, community annals, and supplemental historical information on the SOS mission in Manning, Alberta.

File contains scans of newsclippings, flyers, event programmes, pamphlets, and notes by Sister Mary-Ellen pertaining to her social justice work in Ottawa.

File contains Sister Mary-Ellen's correspondence with the SOS regarding the start of her mission in Ottawa, as well as documents relating to the establishment of her clinical practice.

File contains summaries of Sister Mary-Ellen Francouer's social justice work in Ottawa.

File contains correspondence and reports from Sister Ella Zink's work in public relations in Ottawa.

At this teaching mission in central Alberta, Sister Bernice Anstett taught 21 years (1964-1985) at the Onoway Elementary School with Sister Colleen Young (1967-1988) equalling Sister Ansett’s longevity at the school. The Sisters lived in a house belonging to St. Rose of Lima parish and were involved in the Onoway parish and its mission church of Lac la Nonne in the liturgies as well as teaching and coordinating religious instruction in the area. At St. Rose church, Sister Young played the organ and Sister Anstett offered Bible classes. Sister Marilyn MacDonald (1986-1988) joined the mission when she was employed in the local office of the Alberta Social Services. The mission on June 30, 1988.

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, community annals, and supplemental historical materials about the SOS mission in Onoway, Alberta.

Sister Mary MacDougall opened this teaching mission in 1971, remaining for two years in this rural Labrador community, part of the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation. Sister Joan Coffey (1972-1983) joined her on the teaching staff at Peenamin McKenzie elementary school and later was appointed as its principal. Sister Coffey put in place programs and activities to enhance and support the revival of the First Nations culture. Outside of the school, Sister Coffey joined the executive (1972-1981) of the Newfoundland Teachers’ Association and held the record at that time of the longest-serving female member. Sister Coffey took advantage of the executive meetings in St. John’s to go shopping and return with a variety of items unavailable for families in Labrador. Sister Anna McNally (1973-1974) and Sister Clare Gilmore (1974-1976) also taught the Montagnais and Nascopi communities at Pembina MacKenzie school. Sister Alena Bryden (1973-1980) served as housemother at the senior students residence of the International Grenfell Association. The mission closed in June 1983.

Subseries consists of community annals, correspondence, reports, and supplementary historical materials from the SOS mission in Sheshatshiu Reserve.

At the invitation of Nelson Bishop Emmett Doyle, Sister Frances Coffey with the assistance of Sister Carmelita Camozzi arrived in September 1962 to establish the diocese’s office of Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD). Under the CCD, the Church’s official organization for providing religious instruction to youth and adults, the Sisters provided catechetical in-service courses for catechetists. Sister Camozzi also co-ordinated religious education for four diocesan parishes in Kelowna until 1965. In August 1966, Sister Coffey left the CCD office to teach two courses in catechetics at Notre Dame University in Nelson. Sister Rosemarie Hudon replaced Sister Coffey on the Notre Dame faculty, teaching religious studies (1966-1969). Sisters Agnes Dwyer (1966-1969) and Hilda Lunney (1965-1967) replaced Sisters Coffey and Camozzi in the CCD office, renamed the religious education office after the Second Vatican Council. Sister Margaret Murphy, who had completed a year of study at the Divine Word Institute in London, Ontario, also worked in that office (1967-1969). The mission closed in 1969.

Subseries consists of community annals, correspondence, reports, and supplemental historical materials on the SOS mission in Nelson, British Columbia.

In this Northern Ontario community just south of James Bay, the Sisters’ mission provided teachers and medical support in two missions. In the first, Sister Leona Trautman taught at Bishop Belleau School (1972-1978), and was joined by Sister Clare Gilmore, a specialist in remedial reading in the primary grades (1976-1978) and Sister Irene Profit taught religion (1974-1975). Sister Silvie Nachtegaele nursed at the Moosonee Clinic as well as other Northern Ontario communities of Attawapiskat and Fort Albany (1974-1977). In the second mission, Sister Mary-Ellen Francoeur worked as a resident psychologist for the Ontario government’s Native Mental Health Program (1989-1993), providing care for the reserves along the coast of James Bay. Sister Patsy Flynn taught at Bishop Belleau school (1990-1993). The mission closed in 1993.

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, newsclippings, and community annals from the two SOS missions in Moosonee.

File contains correspondence with the Catholic Women's League [CWL] of Canada and reports on the SOS mission at Dorchester St., especially as they pertain to donations/funding from the CWL.

Sister Margaret Ready worked as a family counsellor at the Family Enrichment and Counselling Service (1975-1981). Following training, Sister Marilyn Gillespie was hired as a prison chaplain at Westmorland Institution (August 1987-1988), becoming one of the few women chaplains in the federal correctional services.

Subseries consists of correspondence and reports from the two Moncton missions.