At the request of Archbishop Patrick Skinner of St. John’s and the support of Father George Daly, two Sisters arrived in September 1953 to open the last of the institute’s seven women’s residences in Canada. In the view of St. John the Baptist Basilica, the residence at 7 Garrison Hill opened a month later and accommodated up to 20 women. The Sisters provided a home-like, faith-based atmosphere with social events, study and craft clubs. An auxiliary association organized fundraising for much-needed items for the residence. While living at the residence, Sister Joan Coffey taught at St. John Bosco, the first alternative school in St. John’s. The residence was sold in July 1973 to a relative of the Parker family from whom the Sisters had purchased it 20 years earlier.

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, newclippings, scrapbook, community annals, guest book, and materials pertainint to the Women's Auxiliary Residential Club from the SOS mission at Garrison Hill, St. John's.

Catholic Welfare Council, Catholic Family Services

For three decades, the Sisters worked as social workers, beginning with Sister Gertrude Walsh (1942-1944) at Catholic Welfare Council and continuing with Sister Ann O’Brien (1946-1976) and Sister Patricia Burke (1958-1966). Director and executive director of the Catholic Welfare Council and its successor the Catholic Family Services (1947-1976) Sister O’Brien received many awards in honour of her service to the city, including Saskatoon citizen of the year in 1974, Sister Ann O’Brien School and Sister Ann O’Brien scholarship.

University Women’s residence

At the request of Bishop Philip Pocock, a residence at 942 Saskatchewan Crescent was opened in April 1946 as a residence for Catholic women students attending the nearby St. Thomas More College of the University of Saskatchewan. The residence accommodated up to 14 young women as well as the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine office, which was administered by Sister Rita MacLellan (1951-1954). Sister Ann O'Brien also lived in the residence as well as other Sisters working, teaching and studying in the city. Sister Anna McNally taught at St. Charles and St. Matthew schools (1966-1973). The residence for university students ended in April 1971 and the mission was closed in February 1977.

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, newsclippings, community annals, and accounting books from the Saskatoon missions.

File contains a variety of pamphlets, flyers, and event programmes relating to activities at St. Thomas More College and the University of Saskatchewan, including the Campus Newman Centre.

File contains scans of newsclippings, timelines, and other background material on the history of the Saskatoon mission. Also includes correspondence and newsletters from St. Thomas More College and a summary of a visit to the mission in 1946 by Fr. George Daly and Bishop Pocock, written by Sr. Madge Barton. Accompanied by loose leafs seemingly taken from the residence guestbook in the early 1970s.

File contains correspondence and reports from the SOS missions in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Correspondent include: the SOS Motherhouse in Toronto, Fr. George Daly, the Catholic Welfare Council of Saskatoon, other SOS missions especially the Halifax Residence, the Diocese of Saskatoon, the Saskatoon Separate School Board, and that pertaining to legal and real estate matters. The bulk of the correspondence is with the Sister General at the SOS Motherhouse in Toronto. Accomapnied by scans of newsclippings relating to pay for Sister-teachers in Saskatoon Separate Schools c. 1968-1969.

The Garrison Hill women's residence was sold in July 1973 to a relative of the Parker family from whom the Sisters had purchased it 20 years earlier. In 1973, the Sisters moved into an apartment on the first floor of a large home on 23 Rennie’s Mill Road in the Cathedral parish. Sisters Adua Zampese and Barbara Kowalski taught in schools five kilometres apart (Goulds and Petty Harbour) about 50 kilometres outside St. John’s. Sister Kowalski moved to a school in St. John’s when Sister Zampese moved to St. Julien’s. The mission closed in 1979.

Subseries contains annals, correspondence, and reports from the Rennie's Mill Rd. mission.

File contains correspondence and reports from the SOS mission in St. Brides, Alberta. Correspondence is largely between Sr. Catherine Donnelly, Sister General Florence Regan (Toronto), and Fr. George Daly, but includes correspondence to and from other SOS Sisters.

At the invitation of Fr. Joseph Paquin, OMI, the Sisters opened in September 1944 a residence for out-of-town students in this Northern Alberta town. Named St. Michael’s Dormitory, it provided room and board at $10 a month for 20 students, most of whom attended high school. From 1944 until 1955, the Sisters supervised the dormitory, served the meals and prepared students for the sacraments. The students, who went home on weekends, assisted with the daily chores of the residence. By 1955, regular school bus service was available and the dormitory closed but continued to be the Sisters’ residence.

Over the 28 years of the mission, a total of 32 Sisters served in Rycroft. Six Sisters taught in the elementary school, another six Sisters in junior high and four Sisters in the senior high school. For two years, due to the overcrowding in the three-room Rycroft public school, the Sisters made available space in the dormitory for a temporary classroom until a second school was established. From 1949 until 1953, a Sister also taught in the one-room ungraded school in Silverwood, eight kilometres from Rycroft until it was amalgamated with Rycroft public school. Sisters Madge Barton and Alice Walsh were the last teachers at the Rycroft public school when the mission closed in June 1972.

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, financial accounts, newsclippings, community annals, scrapbooks, and guest books from the Rycroft mission. Accompanied by materials relating to the Sodality of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, which operated out of St. Peter and Paul Parish, and biographical information on Fr. Joseph Paquin.

File contains a biography of Fr. Joseph Paquin, OMI, written by Sister Madge Barton. Accompanied by correspondence with Bishop Henri Routhier, OMI.

File contains timelines, research notes, and supplemental materials on the history of the Catholic churches in the Rycroft area.

File contains correspondence and reports from the SOS mission in Rycroft, Alberta. Correspondence is largely with the SOS motherhouse in Toronto, but also includes: other SOS missions, various clergy including Fr. Joseph Paquin and Bishop Henri Routhier, and general adminstrative/financial correspondence. Accompanied by some circular letters, greeting cards, and postcards.

For a year (2002-2003), three Sisters assisted at St. Anne’s parish. Sister Adua Zampese provided sacramental preparation, visiting the nursing home and the elderly shut-ins. Sister Margaret Ready responded to various referrals for home visits. Sister Patsy Flynn volunteered at Visitation House, a parish drop-in centre for women and children in need.

Subseries consists of correspondence, parish announcements, and community annals from the SOS mission on Langley Street, Regina.

Sister Adua Zampese (1994-1996) served as a pastoral assistant at northwest Regina in Holy Family parish. Subseries consists of parish bulletins and memorabilia.

Alongside the Daly Centre, Sister Mary Roberts served as a parish assistant Holy Rosary Cathedral in Regina (1980-1987). Subseries consists of reports, correspondence, and community annals from the Sisters' home at 2224 Cameron Street.

File contains correspondence between the Regina mission, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the National Office of Religious Education (NORE). Accompanied by some supplemental NORE reports and newsletters.

File contains correspondence, largely with the SOS motherhouse in Toronto and the National Office of Religious Education, pertaining to the transfer of the Daly Centre's home religion program to the Archdiocese of Regina.

File contains reports and general correspondence from the Daly Centre. Correspondents include: other SOS Sisters, various clergy, the National Office of Religious Education (NORE), the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop of Regina, and parents and students of the Daly Centre. Accompanied by copies of some of the NORE newsletters from the 1980s.

File contains reports and meeting minutes from the Daly Centre staff. Accompanied by related administrative correspondence including correspondence with the: Catholic Information Centre (Regina), National Office of Religious Education (NORE), and the Archbishop of Regina.

File contains correspondence between the Daly Centre and the National Office of Religious Education.

File contains Sister Madge Barton's notes and some brief correspondence relating to her research into the history of the SOS mission and correspondence school in Regina.

File contains correspondence from Fr. M.J. Hogan, the Director of Religious Education for the Archdiocese of Regina. Accompanied by meeting minutes, memos, and other administrative documents pertaining to the work of the SOS religious correspondence school.

File contains correspondence from the SOS mission at Jasper Ave, Alberta. Correspondents include: the Sister General at the SOS Motherhouse in Toronto, the Archdiocese of Edmonton, the Catholic Church Extension Society, and the separate school board.

File contains correspondence with the Catholic Church Extension Society and a photocopy of an article about the Society from The Western Catholic Reporter.

File contains Fr. Daly's correspondence regarding the extension of the Catholic Church in Western Canada. Accompanied by a 1926 booklet on the subject which highlights the SOS.

File contains general reports and correspondence form the SOS mission at 2220 Cameron St. Regina, Saskatchewan. Correspondence is largely with the SOS motherhouse in Toronto, but also includes: other SOS missions, Fr. George Daly, the Archdiocese of Regina, Archbishop James McGuigan, Archbishop PJ Monahan, various other clergy, parishes, and dioceses including the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), the Postmaster/post office, the Canadian government, the Catholic Church Extension Society, the National Office of Religious Education (NORE), and other individuals. Occasionally includes newsclippings, greeting cards, and copies of generic letters sent to students of the correspondence school.

Materials from 1972 include event programmes and correspondence about the 50th Anniversary/Jubilee celebrations of the SOS.

Materials from 1984 include newsclippings, congratulations, event prorammes, and correspondence relating to the 50th anniversary of the SOS mission in Regina.

Materials from 1988 include correspondence abour the cathedral rezoning in Regina.

Materials from 1994 include the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the SOS mission in Regina.

Materials from 1997 include the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the SOS founding.

At the invitation of Archbishop James McGuigan of Regina, the Sisters arrived to establish a catechetical house, purchasing a house at 2220 Cameron Street from the Sisters of St. Louis in August 1934. A month later, a religious correspondence school, similar to their school in Edmonton, opened officially and the Sisters began to send correspondence lessons to rural Catholic children in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northern Ontario. At its peak, enrolment rose to 7,000. Four sisters and many volunteers undertook the mammoth task of conducting this distance learning school. In the summers, the Sisters followed up the lessons with the religious vacation schools, preparing children for the sacraments and meeting many of the correspondence students.

Although the correspondence school was the mission’s priority, the Sisters gave weekly classes in methodology of religion to education students; edited the “Children’s Page” and “Mailbox” in Salve Regina Quarterly; prepared the annual junior and senior diocesan examinations and accepted the responsibility for assembling 6,000 “Project Books” for the religious vacation schools. For more than 20 years, they mailed Catholic magazines and papers to thousands of Catholic families living on the prairies. The Sisters organized the Marian Crusaders Club to promote devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to provide a bond of union among correspondence school students. On weekends for more than three decades, the Sisters taught religion to Regina children attending public school and at the city’s mission churches of Lumsden, Qu’Appelle, Indian Head, Pilot Butte and McLean. The Sisters assisted St. Martha’s Guild, an organization for young working women. In the 1930s, the Sisters also distributed winter clothing to rural families.

In 1962, changes began. On the same site, a new building was opened to house the correspondence school and the Sisters’ residence. The correspondence school adopted and adapted an updated series of the United States texts of the On Our Way Series. After the Second Vatican Council, the Home Religion Program was established. To assist parish schools in 1967, Sister Carmelita Camozzi conducted 41 workshops in parishes and missions. The success of these parish schools resulted in a decreased enrolment of correspondence students. As a response to the Home Religion Program, the correspondence school became a depot for the lessons of a new series, Come to the Father, approved by the Canadian bishops. In 1971, the correspondence school was renamed the Daly Centre in honour of Father George Daly, who guided the establishment of the schools. From 1971 until 1980 under the auspices of the National Office of Religious Education in Ottawa, a team of religious educators met annually at the Daly Centre to continue the preparation of the Come to the Father series and its successor Born in the Spirit series. After 1984, the correspondence lessons were printed and distributed from Ottawa. In June 1991, the Home Religion Program was transferred to the Archdiocese of Regina.

The mission at 2220 Cameron Street was closed in 2001.

Subseries consists of reports, correspondence, newsclippings, bequests, research notes, community annals, and materials from the religious correspondence school/Daly Centre. Also includes community annals from the nearby cottage owned by the SOS in Paqua Lake, SK.

Personal records of Dr. Daniel W. Lang, professor, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE/UT, and senior policy advisor to the president of the University of Toronto. Records include files relating to his activities as a senior administrator and policy advisor to University presidents James Ham, David Strangway, George Connell, Robert Prichard, and David Naylor. Files document projects, plans, financing, campus development, technology development, etc. Also includes records documenting his academic responsibilities relating to teaching, research and publication, as well as external consulting activities to various academic institutions and government bodies in Ontario and across Canada, particularly the Council of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.

Contains folders on 2nd stage funding, a working draft of ‘Discussion paper for Working Group on University Capacity’, and other files.

File types include: Microsoft Word Document; Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Workbook (xls); Microsoft Excel 5.0/95 Workbook (xls); Plain Text File

This series documents Professor Lang’s writings, unpublished and published, over a forty-year period. He has written two books, Financing universities in Ontario (2000) and Mergers in higher education: lessons in theory and practice (2001), which was translated into Chinese and published in Shanghai in 2008. He has contributed chapters to eleven books, and had numerous papers published in refereed journals, along with review essays, other publications, papers, and reports. The research files (some contain original documents) for and a copy of his doctoral thesis, are also present in this series. The titles, where they exist, to these research files were those used by Professor Lang.

The listing of manuscripts and publications is not complete. For a complete listing of Professor Lang’s publications, see his curriculum vitae in B2011-0003/001(01). Some of his reports not present in this series can be found in other series.

Digital files from B2018-0001 include correspondence and drafts for his book Mergers in higher education: lessons in theory and practice (2001), as well as a report for the Atkinson Foundation, A Primer on Formula Funding: A Study of Student-focused Funding in Ontario (2003).

The files contain a combination of correspondence, drafts, background and research material and notes. The arrangement is chronological by date of document or date of publication.

Most of the files in this series relate to the ‘College Choice’ project, the first study in Canada of “the effects of surveys on students as they make choices among colleges.” It was based on “a series of surveys carried out at the University of Toronto from the late 1970s and on a series or surveys and interviews of students and guidance counselors in four or five Toronto high schools with different student populations.” The files contain correspondence; compact discs of data sets, reports, and associated material; “catchment samples” and participant dossiers; data analysis and drafts of reports. Files on several other research projects follow. Research projects for which Professor Lang received external funding and which are not included in this series are listed in his curriculum vitae in B2011-0003/001 (01).

This series documents professional activities other than those described in the two previous series. Included is material on consulting and special projects, boards of governors of educational institutions that Professor Lang sat on, and his association with a number of other educational agencies and groups in Canada and elsewhere. Of the last, the most documentation is on the Ontario Council on University Affairs, the Premier’s Council for Economic Renewal, and the Sweden/Ontario Bilateral Exchange Seminar for Senior Academic Administrators (1982-1983). The arrangement in this section is by name of organization or event. The files may contain any combination of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, notes, and reports.

Files from B2018-0001 include further records documenting Lang’s active involvement with the Board of Trustees of the Toronto School of Theology (2008 - ; Chair, Institutional Evaluations Committee, 2014-2017) and the Board of Governors of Saint Augustine’s Seminary. His work as Chair of the Strategic Asset Study Committee (2011-2014) for the Archdiocese of Toronto is also documented.

Files from B2020-0003 include further records relating to his role on the Board of Governors of Saint Augustine’s Seminary.

Files from B2021-0010 consist of emails (circa 2013-2016) relating to his role on the Board of Trustees of the Toronto School of Theology (TST).

Professor Lang’s first major collaboration with the then Ministry of Colleges and Universities began in 1991 when he was a member of the Minister’s Task Force on University Accountability. Later he was involved in several joint projects with the Ministry and its successors [the Ministry of Education and Training (from 1995) and from 2000, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities] and the Council of Ontario Universities; in particular, their Steering Committee on Ontario Graduate Survey (1997-), their Joint Steering Committee on OSAP (1998-2001), and their Key Performance Indicators project (2000-2005). In 2006 he became a member of the Ministry’s Joint Working Group on Student Access Guarantee. From 2008 to 2011 he was the Ministry’s Working Group and Steering Committee on Transfer. Not all of these activities are documented in this series.

In 2006-2007 the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities undertook two inter-related research projects “aimed generally at learning about the characteristics of ‘first-generation’ students.” The first, “College Choice”, focused on the factors that influenced students in seeking post-secondary education and their choices of institutions to attend. The second, dubbed Project STAR (Student Achievement and Retention), “sought to determine the factors that influence the academic performance and retention of students in the first year of university.” It was sponsored by the Canada Millenium Scholarship Foundation and Statistics Canada.

Files in B2018-0001 document Professor Lang's role as Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister, in particular his involvement with the negotiations between the Government of Ontario and Ontario universities regarding the second Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA2), and Ontario colleges regarding the Colleges Applied Research and Development Fund [CARDF].

Also included are files regarding the creation of a francophone university in Ontario; the Joint Working Group on Student Access Guarantee, regarding the modernization of the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP); and the Steering Committee on Transfer Credits.

Files from B2020-0003 include correspondence with Sheldon Levy, Marny Scully, Bob Truman; and files relating to the creation of a new Francophone university in Ontario (Université de l’Ontario français).

Files from B2021-0010 include emails with Lucia Padure and additional files related to the Steering Committee on Transfer Credits (“Transfer Pathways”).

In Quebec City, Sisters Agnes Black and Mary Szostak travelled from Montréal and lived with the White Sisters on Grand Allée, assisting Abbé Casgrain at the port. The Sisters met the ships and referred Catholic passengers en route their Canadian destination.

Subseries consists of correspondence and reports from the SOS mission in Quebec City.

File contains correspondence and reports from the SOS mission in Quebec City. Correspondence is largely with the SOS motherhouse in Toronto, the Catholic Women's League, Fr. George Daly, and Abbe Casgrain.