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This series contains records created and accumulated by the office of the General Treasurer for the Sisters of St. Joseph in London, Ontario. The records are primarily related to managing the donations given by and to the Sisters and the funding for their ministries, missions, Motherhouses, residences, and outreach projects. In London, St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre provided food security programs, Medaille Retreat House was a spiritual retreat centre for the Sisters, the Queens Avenue building was a home for women in need, and the Boulee Street house was a ministry to the poor. The Adult Spirituality Centre, St. Joseph’s Manor, the Foster Home on St. Rose Avenue, and Holy Rosary Convent were all in Windsor. St. Joseph’s Manor and the Foster Home were ministries to children in need and Holy Rosary Convent was the main convent for the Windsor Sisters. The Adult Spirituality Centre in Windsor provided spiritual direction and retreats. Another spiritual retreat, Marygrove, was in Aylmer. Outside of Ontario, there are records concerning the Photo History Project at Ataguttaaluk School in Igloolik, Nunavut in which Sister Mary Diesbourg participated, the Sisters at St. Joseph Regional House in Edmonton, Alberta, and the mission in Peru including the collaboration with Heart-Links, a London based charity focused on Peru.

The series includes reports, meeting agendas and minutes, mission statements, budgets, floorplans, funding proposals and requests, grant applications, forms, lists of Sisters involved with specific projects and sites, and correspondence concerning funding, donations, location changes, operations, and testimonials from the public supporting the Sisters’ projects. There are also resolution agreements from the Sisters’ projects. One agreement is with the sole shareholder of a company connected to a property owned by the London congregation, Marygrove, concerning the finances and leadership positions within the company. The other agreement is between the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and the Sisters of St. Joseph to decide the future of the Adult Spirituality Center.

One of the ways that Sisters could request funding for their ministries from the congregation was through the Apostolic Services Fund. Arrangements for the creation of this fund, outlines of requirements to qualify for funding and funding applications are included.

Not all the material is concerned with finances. Some records pertain to other projects the General Treasurer was involved with, particularly when Sister Loretta Manzara held the office. In 2007, the Sisters moved from Mount St. Joseph to a new LEED certified residence at 485 Windermere Road. in the series includes records related to this transition such as the Sisters’ Statement of Values, reports, pamphlets, news clippings, an issue of London Citylife, and newsletters (one of which was titled Crossing Over). There is also material concerned with the sale of Mount St. Joseph, the former Motherhouse.

At the 2012 Foundation Day, the Annals Project was presented. It focused on a shift from keeping annals to looking at the life of the entire congregation as expressed through Chapter reports. Pamphlets, agendas, meeting minutes, and a report on this project are present. Accompanying this material are annotated photocopies of various reports covering the Sisters’ activities from 1959 to 2011 which were referenced for the project.

Records related to the London Sisters’ involvement in Goderich, Ontario are also present, such as correspondence and pamphlets about their commitment to the area and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first convent outside London.

The series also includes descriptions of icons painted by Sister Mary Anthony Hartleib, as well as prints of some of her artwork (including on the back of her funeral card), and photographs of artwork by Philip Aziz. Other photographs in the series are from the mission in Peru and of students and elders in the report for the Photo History Project at Ataguttaaluk School.

This series contains records from individual towns in Ontario where the Sisters of St. Joseph of the London diocese were teachers and principals. This includes memoirs and a photograph from St. Boniface School in Zurich, Ontario and a yearbook from St. Mary’s High in Woodstock, Ontario.

This collection consists of yearbooks; annual reports; newsletters, handbooks; prize lists; constitutions and by-laws; board of director information; lists of presidents; correspondence; a newspaper clipping; programmes; show announcements; booklets; emblems; publications; hand-written notes; a petition; rules and regulations; proceedings of an annual convention; show books; bulletins; pamphlets; articles; a presentation; and member lists.

Fonds consists of records, including births/baptisms, 1844-1912, marriages, 1858-1894, 1897-1907, of Egmondville Presbyterian Church, 1844-1930; records, including baptisms 1913-1998, marriages, 1896-2010, and burials, 1938-1996, of Egmondville United Church (includes Egmondville Presbyterian Church), 1893-2010.

Fonds consists of sermons and papers of Walter H. Wentzlaff delivered at pastoral conferences of the Ontario District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1858-1884, of Ontario Street Methodist Church, Clinton, 1854-1924; Board of Trustees minutes of Turner's Methodist Church, Tuckersmith Township, 1889-1895; records, including baptisms, 1966-1984, of Ontario Street United Church, Clinton (includes Ontario Street Methodist Church), 1884-1986; records of Turner's United Church (includes Turner's Methodist Church), 1896-1965

Fonds consists of records of Goderich Wesleyan Methodist Mission, 1849-1884; records, including marriages, 1858-1896, of North Street Methodist Church, Goderich, 1858-1925; records, including baptisms, 1898-1989, marriages, 1896-2012, and burials, 1908-1993. of North Street United Church, Goderich (includes North Street Methodist Church), 1898-2012.

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1900-1902, burials, 1905-1906, of Londesborough Methodist Circuit (includes Constance (now Kinburn), Londesborough, Holmesville, Tipperary Church in Goderich Township, Ebenezer Church in Goderich Township), 1857-1924; records of Kinburn Methodist Church (formerly Constance), 1897-1922; baptisms of Hullett and Londesborough Presbyterian Pastoral Charge (includes Burns Church in Hullett Township, Knox Church in Londesborough), 1877-1917; records of Burns Presbyterian Church, Hullett Township, 1858-1889; records, including baptisms, 1908-1959, marriages, 1910-1963, burials, 1908-1960, of Londesborough Pastoral Charge (includes Londesborough Methodist Circuit, Hullett and Londesborough Presbyterian Pastoral Charge, Londesborough, Constance (now Kinburn), Burns Church in Hullett Township), 1870-1967; records of Burns United Church, Hullett Township (includes Burns Presbyterian Church), 1859-1969; records of Kinborn United Church (formerly Constance), 1921-1963; records, including baptisms, 1960-1987, marriages, 1960-1987, burials, 1960-1986, of Londesborough United Church (includes Londesborough Methodist Church, Londesborough Pastoral Charge), 1914-1999; Congregational/Trustee minutes of Constance United Church, 1939-1969.

Fonds consists of circuit registers and official board minutes of Holmesville Methodist Circuit (includes Holmesville, Tipperary, Ebenezer, Zion, Sharon, Summerhill, Sturdy's and Bethel), 1872-1922; records of Holmesville Methodist Church (includes Maitland Circuit), 1874-1922; records, including baptisms, 1901-1953, marriages, 1901-1928, and burials, 1901-1953, of Holmesville Pastoral Charge (includes Holmesville, Ebenezer, Zion, Sharon, Summerhill, Sturdy's, and Bethel), 1901-1953; records of Ebenezer United Church, Goderich Township, 1930-1963; records of Grace United Church, Porter's Hill, 1930-1969; annual reports of Wesley-Willis-Holmesville Pastoral Charge (includes Wesley-Willis United Church in Clinton and Holmesville), 1955-1980; and records, including baptisms, 1953-2010, marriages, 1897-1953, and burials, 1995-2010, of Holmesville United Church (includes Holmesville Methodist Circuit and Holmesville Methodist Church), 1856-2010.

Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1896-1924 (includes Birr, 1896-1898), of Gorrie Methodist Circuit (includes Howick Village Wesleyan Methodist Church (now Gorrie), Lakelet, Orange Hill Church in Howick Township, Zion Church in Carrick Township, Wroxeter, Ebenezer Church in Turnberry Township, Salem Church in Fordwich, Belmore), 1859-1924; records, including marriages, 1896-1924, of Wroxeter Methodist Circuit (includes Wroxeter, Belmore, Salem Church in Howick Township), 1890-1924; records of Gorrie Methodist Church, 1854-1915; records of Wroxeter Methodist Church, 1864-1925; records, including baptisms, 1893-1925, of Gorrie Presbyterian Church, 1893-1925; records, including baptisms, 1866-1869, marriage, 1866-1897, and burials, 1866-1882, 1885, of Wroxeter Presbyterian Church (includes Lisadel (now Fordwich), Howick Station (now Gorrie)), 1864-1916; circuit register of Gorrie Pastoral Charge (includes Gorrie Methodist Circuit, Gorrie, Orange Hill Church in Howick Township), 1922-1944; records, including baptisms, 1862-1951, and marriages, 1897-1949, of Wroxeter Pastoral Charge (includes Wroxeter Presbyterian Church, Wroxeter, Salem Church in Howick Township), 1862-1951; records of Salem United Church, Howick Township (includes Wroxeter Methodist Circuit), 1907-1949; records , including baptisms, 1899-1913, 1917-1921, 1925-1979, marriages, 1898-1920, 1925-1980, and burials, 1898-1907, 1910-1920, 1925-1979, of Gorrie United Church (includes Gorrie Methodist Circuit, Gorrie Methodist Church, Gorrie Presbtyerian Church), 1894-1984; records, including baptisms, 1901-1925, 1941-1981, marriages, 1901-1923, 1949-1981, burials, 1901-1922, 1931-1979, of Wroxeter United Church (includes Wroxeter Methodist Circuit and Salem Church in Howick Township), 1897-1985.

Fonds consists of records,, including baptisms, 1864, 1882-1939, marriages, 1858-1925, of Emmanuel Evangelical Church, Zurich (including Emmanuel Evangelical Association), 1846-1947; records, including baptisms, 1870, 1873, 1931-1967, marriages, 1926-1967, and burials, 1940-1967, of Emmanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church, Zurich (including Emmanuel Evangelical Church), 1870-1967; records, including baptisms, 1890-1961, and marriages, 1891-1951, of Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church, Dashwood, 1890-1969; board and committee records for Dashwood-Zurich Pastoral Charge, 1979-2014; records, including baptisms, 1968-2015, marriages, 1968-2014, and burials, 1968-2014, of Emmanuel United Church, Zurich; and records, including baptisms, 1961-2017, marriages, 1953-2011, and burials, 1961-2012, of Calvary United Church, Dashwood (includes Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church), 1953-2019

Fonds consists of Sunday School records of Brucefield Methodist Church, 1906-1910; records of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Kippen, 1866-1924; records of Brucefield Union Church, 1872-1924; records, including baptisms, 2001-2012 and marriages, 1896-1998, of Brucefield - Kippen Pastoral Charge (includes St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Kippen), 1896-2012; records, including baptisms, 1876-2013, marriages, 1949-2009, and burials, 1944-2013, of Brucefield United Church (includes Brucefield Union Church), 1876-2013; records, including baptisms, 1896-2000, marriages, 1906-1937, and burials, 1941-2001, of St. Andrew's United Church, Kippen (includes St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church), 1896-2009.

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1879-1890, marriages, 1887-1890, of Blyth Methodist Circuit (includes Blyth, Westfield, Sunshine, Ebenezer Church in Morris Township, Bethel Church in Morris Township, Jackson's Church in Morris Township), 1875-1893; records of Blyth Methodist Church, 1887-1920; records, including baptisms, 1857-1877, marriages, 1860-1896, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 1857-1924; records, including baptisms, 1877-1934, of St. Andrew's United Church, Blyth (includes St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church), 1877-1934; Board of Trustees minutes of Queen Street United Church, Blyth (includes Blyth Methodist Church), 1921-1928; records, including marriages, 1896-1941 (Presbyterian), of Blyth United Church (includes Blyth Methodist Circuit, Queen Street Methodist Church, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, St. Andrew's United Church), 1896-1985.

Fonds consists of records of Trowbridge Methodist Church (including Molesworth and Trowbridge), 1857-1925; records of Trowbridge Methodist Church, 1888-1925; records of Atwood Methodist Circuit (including Alviston Methodist Circuit, Atwood, Donegal, and Jubilee Methodist Churches); Trustee records of Donegal Methodist Church, 1873-1899; records of Trowbridge Pastoral Charge (including Mayne, Molesworth and Trowbridge), 1917-1946; records, including baptisms, 1897-1989, marriages, 1896-1975, and burials, 1902-2005, of Atwood Pastoral Charge (including Trowbridge Methodist Circuit, Trowbridge Pastoral Charge, Atwood, Donegal, Molesbridge, Mayne, and Trowbridge United Churches), 1897-2012; congregational minutes, 1941-1949, statement concerning church closure, 1949, of Molesworth United Church; records of Atwood United Church, 1893-2008; records, including marriages 1897-1947, of Trowbridge United Church, 1873-2014; and records of Donegal United Church (includes Donegal Methodist Church), 1910-2014.

Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1896-1912, of Grand Bend Methodist Circuit (includes Boston (now Greenway), Grand Bend, Mt. Pleasant Church in McGillivray Township, Salem Church in McGillivray Township, Corbett, Shipka), 1883-1913; records, including baptisms, 1877-1924, marriages, 1897-1924, of Grand Bend Presbyterian Church, 1877-1924; records of Corbett Presbyterian Church, 1888-1925; records, including baptisms, 1912-1969, marriages, 1912-1997, burials, 1914-2002, of Grand Bend Pastoral Charge (includes Grand Bend Methodist Circuit, Grand Bend Presbyterian Church, Grand Bend, Greenway), 1904-2014; records of Greenway United Church (includes Greenway Methodist Church and Corbett Presbyterian Church), 1875-2014; records of Grand Bend United Church (includes Grand Bend Presbyterian Church and Grand Bend Methodist Church), 1877-2014; records of Huron Shores United Church in Grand Bend, 2014-2017.

Fonds consists of deed of land of Anderson Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1862; records of Kirkton Methodist Circuit (includes Kirkton Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Kirkton, Anderson, Mount Pleasant, Salem Church in Blanshard Township, Zion Church in Usborne Township), 1869-1914; records of Woodham Methodist Circuit (includes Woodham, Zion Church in Usborne Township, Cooper's Church in Blanshard Township), 1886-1919; records of Kirkton Methodist Church, 1875-1913; records of Mount Pleasant Methodist Church, Fullarton Township, 1881-1922; records of Salem Methodist Church in Blanshard Township, 1889-1916; records, including marriages, 1897-1920, of Woodham Methodist Church, 1885-1922; records of Anderson Methodist Church (includes Third Line Wesleyan Methodist Church in Blanshard Township (now Anderson), 1873-1925; records of Kirkton Presbyterian Church, 1866-1926; Sunday School minutes of Zion Methodist Church in Usborne Township, 1906-1923; records, including baptisms, 1920-1933, marriages, 1941-1949, 1959-1987, burials, 1921-1968, of Kirkton Pastoral Charge (includes Kirkton Methodist Circuit, Kirkton, Anderson, Mount Pleasant), 1896-1987; records, including baptisms, 1909-1963, marriages, 1910-1963, burials, 1909-1964, of Woodham Pastoral Charge (includes Woodham Methodist Circuit, Woodhead, Zion Church (now Zion East) in Usborne Township, Zion West in Blanshard Township, Cooper's Church in Blanshard Township), 1909-1968; records of Kirkton - Woodham Pastoral Charge (includes Woodham Pastoral Charge, Kirkton, Woodham), 1962-1975; records of Anderson United Church, 1925-1972; records, including baptisms, 1966, marriages, 1966, burials, 1966, of Zion East United Church, Usborne Township (includes Zion Church in Usborne Township), 1883-1968; records of Kirkton United Church (includes Kirkton Methodist Church), 1891-1987; records of Woodham United Church (includes Woodham Methodist Church), 1898-2013; and records of Mount Pleasant United Church, Fullarton Township (includes Mount Pleasant Methodist Church), 1906-1968.

Fonds consists of membership records of Elimville Methoidst Circuit (incudes Elimville, Zion, Bethany, Sunshine), 1884-1909; records of Bethany Thames Road Methodist Church, 1868-1915; records, including baptisms, 1865-1877, and marriages, 1868-1896, of Thames Road Presbyterian Church (includes Kirkton), 1865-1916; Sunday School records of Elimville Methodist Church, 1896-1919; records, including baptisms, 1864-1932, of Elimville Pastoral Charge (includes Elimville-Zion Pastoral Charge, Elimville Methodist Church, Sunshine Methodist Church, Elimville and Zion), 1864-1957; records, including baptisms, 1932-1957, 1963-1977, marriages, 1919-1944, 1963-1977, and burials, 1933-1952, 1963-1977, of Thames Road Pastoral Charge (includes Thames Road Presbyterian Church, Zion Methodist Church, Elimville, Roy's Church, Thames Road and Zion), 1919-1977; records, including baptisms, 1896-1946, of Elimville United Church (includes Elimville Methodist Church), 1896-1998; records, including baptisms, 1916-1950, and marriages, 1896-1945, of Thames Road United Church (includes Thames Road Presbyterian Church), 1896-1997.

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1853-1863, and marriages, 1896-1907, of Benmiller Methodist Circuit (includes Benmiller Methodist Episcopal Circuit, Maitland Methodist Episcopal Circuit, Benmiller, Manchester [now Auburn], North Zion Church in Colborne Township, Bethel Church in Goderich Township), 1853-1907; collection book of Goderich Methodist Episcopal Church, 1878-1882; records, including marriages, 1896-1913, of Victoria Street Methodist Church, Goderich (includes Goderich Methodist Episcopal Church), 1859-1916; Adult Bible Class minutes and attendance register of North Zion Church, Colborne Township, 1918-1925; marriages of Leeburn Presbyterian Pastoral Charge (includes Leeburn Church, Union Church in Goderich Township), 1896-1923; communion roll of Smith's HIll Presbyterian Church [now Carlow], (includes Leeburn), 1875-1930; records of Union Presbyterian Church, Goderich Township, 1876-1922; records of Benmiller and Smith's Hill Pastoral Charge (includes Smith's Hill Presbyterian Church, Smith's Hill, Benmiller), 1887-1926; baptisms, 1903-1939, marriages, 1907-1939, burials, 1907-1939, of Benmiller Pastoral Charge (includes Benmiller Methodist Circuit, Benmiller, Smith's Hill Church in Colborne Township), 1903-1939; baptisms, 1940-1955, marriages, 1940-1984, and burials, 1940-1986, of Nile Pastoral Charge (includes Nile, Benmiller, Smith's Hill Church in Colborne Township), 1940-1986; records, including burials, 1983-2012, of Victoria Street - Benmiller Pastoral Charge (includes Victoria Street in Goderich, Benmiller, Union United Church in Goderich Township), 1949-2012; records of Union United Church, Goderich Township (includes Union Presbyterian Church), 1876-1978; records, including baptisms, 1890-1927, of Smith's Hill United Church [now Carlow], (includes Smith's Hill Presbyterian Church), 1890-1951; records, including baptisms, 1903-2011, marriages, 1910, 1913-2011, and burials (includes Union United Church), 1905-1983, of Victoria Street United Church, Goderich (includes Victoria Street Methodist Church, Union Church in Goderich Township), 1890-2013; records, including baptisms 1922-1925, 1957-2012, marriages, 1934-1935, 1978-2010, of Benmiller United Church (includes Benmiller Methodist Circuit, Nile Pastoral Charge (1940-1955), 1905-2012.

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1884-1896, marriages, 1889-1895, and burials, 1888-1890, of Hensall Methodist Circuit (includes Bethesda Methodist Circuit, Bethesda Church, Hensall and Hensall South), 1882-1910; records, including marriages 1896-1916, of Hensall Methodist Church, 1896-1916; records, including marriages, 1897-1916, of Carmel Presbyterian Church, Hensall, 1875-1925; records of Hensall Pastoral Charge (includes Hensall Methodist Church, Chiselhurst, and Hensall), 1911-1981; Trustee minutes of Chiselhurst United Church, 1926-1950; records, including baptisms, 1923-1959, marriages, 1965-1984, 1993, and burials, 1973-2003, of Hensall United Church (includes Hensall Methodist Church), 1923-2012.

Fonds consists of deeds, indentures and other property records of Manchester Wesleyan Methodist Church (now in Auburn), 1871