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          Social Justice series
          CA ON00279 F01-S138 · Series · 1974-2013

          This series contains the records of the committees, meeting minutes and newsletters. Newsclippings on social justice issues, particularly poverty and human trafficking but also including the London Housing crisis, women’s rights, refugee rights, indigenous rights, the 2001 September 11th terrorist attack, the 2003 War in Iraq, The 1997 Kyoto protocol, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It also includes intercongregational correspondence, photographs, correspondence with government and protest groups, fliers, brochures, and information leaflets on events and campaigns in London, Canada, and abroad.

          Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada (London, Ont.)
          CA ON00279 F01-S137 · Series · 1853-2015, predominant 1976-2005

          This series consists of contracts, deeds, plans, and newspaper clippings relating to Hellmuth College from 1866-1952. There is a general history and photographs of Hellmuth College. The series includes photographs of the Chapel and Motherhouse. The series contains a description of the layout of the Orphanage as well as information regarding the day-to-day routines. The series also contains notes on the process of purchasing the Mills property and written summaries of ecclesiastical events such as the Eucharistic Congress at Mount St. Joseph in July, 1923 and the visit of Cardinal Villeneuve in 1934. There are also special issues of the Western Gazette and magazine and newspaper articles, including a biography of Bishop Hellmuth, and the building of the new Motherhouse.

          Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada (London, Ont.)
          Heart-Links sous-fonds
          CA ON00279 F01 SF07 · Sous-fonds · 1976-2014

          Sous-fonds contains correspondence, newsletters, documentaries, project files, school donor files, publications, and records of the administration of and work supported by Heart-Links.

          Heart-Links
          Fontbonne Hall sous-fonds
          CA ON00279 F01-SF06 · Sous-fonds · 1900-1995

          The sous-fonds contains policy manuals, newspaper clippings, intake procedures, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records, as well as the record book and cash book of the Fontbonne Auxiliary. It also contains information about the history of the building, the children who were at Fontbonne Hall and the people who were involved in their care. There is also information about how the purpose of Fontbonne Hall changed throughout its time in operation.

          Fontbonne Hall
          Ethel Finkle Scrapbook fonds
          Item · [before 1910]

          The fonds consists of one scrapbook compiled by Ethel Finkle of Woodstock. It consists of magazine images, poetry, and other items pasted into the ledger by Miss Finkle.

          Finkle, Ethel Mary
          Education Ontario series
          CA ON00279 F01-S122 · Series · 1952-2017

          This series concerns the Sisters of St. Joseph’s involvement in education in Ontario. The records are focused on school boards, associations, educational policies and regulations, and the changes to Catholic education. The types of records included in this series are minutes, bulletins, newsletters, magazines, booklets, clippings, photographs, correspondence, annual reports, and event programs. The major educational organizations these records deal with include the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association, the Ontario Separate School Trustees Association, the Waterloo Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board, the Huron Perth Separate School Board, the Separate School Board of London, and the Association of Catholic High School Boards of Ontario. Much of the material concerns changes to education and Catholic education in Canada, and many publications on the topic are included. Some of the publications were created by the Sisters, such as The Changing face of Catholic Education in London 1858-1963, a study for the Separate School Board of London, Ontario. Sister Patricia Hogan was the Religious Co-Ordinator for the magazine Spiritual Development and several issues of this magazine and clippings of articles written by her are present. Sister Alice Marie McDonald and Sister M. Stanislaus McKinnon were involved with the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario which created the Hall-Dennis Report. Photographs of Sister Alice Marie McDonald and members of the committee working on said report are present along with a summary of the report from the view of Catholic schools.

          There are also minutes from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph Advisory Board, a committee within the community that oversaw the involvement of Sisters in education. This included institutes operated by the Sisters and those where the Sisters were employed. The minutes include discussions of contracts, school policies, reports from teachers’ meetings, and Christian education. Amongst the minutes are agendas, correspondence with the advisory board, bulletins, and statistics of Sisters working in schools.

          Additionally, there is material focused on the history of the Sisters’ involvement in education and Catholic education in Canada. There is correspondence concerning the establishment of Huron Perth Separate School Board Archives and histories of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Goderich, Kingsbridge, St. Mary’s Town, Seaforth, Zurich, and Kinkora, Ontario. Dr. Elizabeth Smyth studied women religious who taught in Canada and there is correspondence about her research with the Sisters. There are various publications by Dr. Elizabeth Smyth, including her thesis, The Lessons of Religion and Science: The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph and St. Joseph’s Academy, Toronto 1854-1911.

          Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada (London, Ont.)
          CA ON00279 F01-S112 · Series · 1961 [photocopied 19-?]-2007

          The records in this series concern the involvement of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London in the field of education in Edmonton, Alberta. The records are primarily concerned with O’Leary High School, St. Nicholas High School, and the history of the Sisters’ involvement with education in Edmonton, Alberta. The material includes O’Leary High School yearbooks, photographs of O’Leary High School, news clippings, pamphlets, histories, and correspondence. The correspondence is about the establishment of the Edmonton Catholic School District Archives and the history of the Sisters who worked in education in Edmonton, Alberta.

          Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada (London, Ont.)
          Community Liturgy series
          CA ON00279 F01-S142 · Series · 1958-2007

          The series contains booklets, information sheets, and newsletters related to Catholic prayer, rituals, and services in both independent and guided forms.

          Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada (London, Ont.)
          Item · [before 1900]

          The fonds consists of one scrapbook compiled by Helen (Nellie) M. Carryer of Woodstock. It consists of magazine images, poetry, stories, and other items pasted into an old accounts’ ledger by Miss Carryer, which includes financial entries dated 1856 and 1857. The ledger may have belonged to her father, who worked as a saddler and harness maker on Dundas St.

          Carryer, Helen (Nellie) M.
          Giles-Hallock Family fonds
          Item · 1856 – [before 1943]

          The fonds consists of the following series:

              Series 1: Diaries (belonging to Leola Giles)
          Series 2: Photographs
          Series 3: Miscellaneous
          Giles-Hallock family
          Kirk family fonds
          Item · ca. 1890 - 1946

          The fonds consists of records related to the Kirk family, of Woodstock, Ontario. It is arranged into the following series:

              Series 1: Correspondence
          Series 2: Photographs
          Kirk family
          Item · 1947 - 2020

          The fonds consist of the following Series:
          Series 1: Minute Books (1947-1997)
          Series 2: Tweedsmuirs (1960-before 1997)
          Series 3: Financial (1987-2020)

          Princess Elizabeth Branch, North Oxford Women's Institute
          95-11
          ON00120 023-1-.1-3-.95-1 · Item · July 21, 1941
          Part of Sudbury Star

          One image of two female gas station attendants, Jill Gervais (left) and Irene Mahon, pumping gas for motorists at McLeod's Service Station (10-16 Larch Street, Sudbury, Ontario) prior to the newly initiated national 7 pm deadline for the sale of gasoline.

          95-11 1/2
          ON00120 023-1-.1-3-.95-2 · Item · July 21, 1941
          Part of Sudbury Star

          One image of two female gas station attendants, Jill Gervais (left) and Irene Mahon, at McLeod's Service Station (10-16 Larch Street, Sudbury, Ontario) looking at their wrist watches to count down the time before they lock the gas pumps to comply with the newly initiated national 7 pm deadline for the sale of gasoline.

          CA ON00333 15-008 · Fonds · 1958-2015

          This fonds consists of personal correspondence written by and to writer and editor Betsy Struthers concerning publications, teaching and editorial work. It also includes early unpublished and published poems and draft manuscripts, reviews and publicity for Censored Letters, Saying So Out Loud, Running Out of Time, Virgin Territory, Driven, Still, In Her Fifties, Where the Night Comes Closest, Relay, All That Desire: New and Selected Poetry, Found: A Body, Grave Deeds, A Studied Death, Poets in the Classroom and the chipbook, The Flood.

          Struthers, Elizabeth (Betsy)
          Varpu Lindström fonds
          CA ON00370 F0558 · Fonds · 1887-2012

          Fonds consists of Lindstrom's professorial and scholarly research files throughout her career, as well as records documenting her academic activities. Research files pertain to her publications and monographs such as "Defiant Sisters : A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada, 1890-1930" (both the English and Finnish editions), and "From Heroes to Enemies : Finns in Canada, 1937-1947," as well as book chapters, articles, papers, presentations and lectures, and her involvement with the National Film Board production "Letters from Karelia," and subsequent research. The research files span the activities of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian organizations across the political spectrum, such as the Finnish Organization of Canada (left wing), and Loyal Finns in Canada (right wing). Records include oral history interviews (audio cassettes and transcripts), research notes, clippings, a significant and extensive number of photograph and letter collections passed down through generations of Finnish Canadians, diaries, correspondence, publication drafts, academic and professorial notes, microfilm of Finnish language newspapers published in Canada and archival records, financial records of Finnish-Canadian organizations such as newspapers and post-World War II relief funding bodies, scrapbooks, photocopies of rare and unusual documents such as two volumes of a Soviet register of Finnish War Crimes, a list of persons found in the mass grave at Karhumaki, and Soviet lists of North American Finns who journeyed to Karelia to help build a socialist utopia there, academic and professorial files, publicity files, files pertaining to her work with the School of Women's Studies, and her own papers as a university student. The fonds also includes letters written by Lindstrom as a newly-arrived teenaged immigrant to Canada to her best friend in Finland; many of these letters were published in Finnish with English translation in 'Letters from an immigrant teenager' in 2012.

          Lindström, Varpu
          Fonds · 1914-1976

          The fonds consists of three series: Delaware Women`s Institute Minute books and Tweedsmuir histories. The third series is a miscellaneous series of information.

          Delaware Women's Institute
          Fonds · 1913-1995

          The records include three series: Series 1 is the minute books from 1913-1977; Series 2 is the Tweedsmuir History books and Series 3 is miscellaneous items relating to the Komoka Women's Institute.

          Komoka Women's Institute
          Elizabeth Gale fonds
          CA ON00353 AFC 469 · Fonds · 1880-1882

          Fonds contains accounts and inventory book of Elizabeth Gale, milliner in London, On. The volume is divided in to two sections. The first is the accounts of Elizabeth Gale’s business from 1880-1882. The second is an inventory of stock seized by the county sheriff on November 14, 1882.

          Gale, Elizabeth
          Item · 1922-2018

          The fonds consists of records related to the history and development of the Brookdale Women’s Institute. Additionally, the fonds contains information and records pertaining to the communities in Southern Oxford County.

          It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

          Series 1: Brooksdale Tweedsmuir Volumes 1-5 (1820-2011)

          Series 2: Women’s Institute Miscellaneous (1909, 1918, 1920, 1923-2017)

          • Subseries A – Quilts
          • Subseries B – Programs

          Series 3: Scrapbooks (1984-2000)

          Series 4: Tweedsmuir History (2001-2017)

          • Subseries A – 2001-2002
          • Subseries B – 2003-2004
          • Subseries C – 2005-2007
          • Subseries D – 2008-2009
          • Subseries E – 2010
          • Subseries F – 2011-2012
          • Subseries G – 2013-2014
          • Subseries H – 2015-2016
          • Subseries I - 2017

          Series 5: Brooksdale Minute Books (1922-2018)

          Brooksdale Women's Institute, Oxford District, Southern Area