Thanks in part to Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program, the archives has been able to preserve, arrange, and describe the majority of the annals from the Congregations of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Pembroke, Hamilton, and London!
These annals are written logs documenting the day-to-day activities of the Sisters while fulfilling various ministries across Canada and abroad. Many of the annals also include photographs, news clippings, and ephemera from the missions.
The finding aid for the Pembroke annals is available on Archeion, Ontario’s Archival Information Network. Keep an eye on our Archeion page as we work to upload the finding aids for the annals of London and Hamilton.
Preserving and caring for records of enduring value means that the legacy of a person or community is kept for future generations. This is the mission of our archives. We hope this short video captures this.
The Monsignor W. T. Flannery Radio and Television Broadcasts, known as the “School of Christ,” was a radio and television program that aired from 1939 to 1963.
In 1868, shortly after their arrival in London, Ontario, the Sisters of St. Joseph founded Mount Hope to provide a home for Sisters, the elderly and orphans. It was renamed House of Providence, and continued to provide care for the elderly until 1966.
In 1971, a group of citizens in London met to discuss setting up a detoxification clinic. Sr. Mary Doyle, of the Sisters of St. Joseph, chaired the group which included representatives from hospitals, social service agencies, the Addiction Research Foundation, the police, the Salvation Army, and Mission Services.
The Associates had their official beginning in 1987 when Chapter approved the movement toward having an Associates program. In 1988, Sr. Doreen Kraemer was appointed by Council to be the Director of Associates.
Since 2016, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada Consolidated Archives has participated in the medical artifacts cataloguing project with St. Joseph’s Health Care in London, Ontario.
On December 10, each year for the past ten years, the Sisters of St. Joseph have helped to protect human rights around the world by taking part in Amnesty International's global write-a-thon, Write for Rights.
The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada administered a number of hospitals in Canada, including in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, as well as in Brazil.
The Pembroke Sisters established the Radville Community Hospital in Radville, Saskatchewan, and administered St. Joseph's Hospital in Barrhead, Alberta and St. Francis Memorial Hospital in Barry's Bay, Ontario.
Sisters' residence and first hospital in Radville, Saskatchewan
The Peterborough Sisters founded several hospitals in Ontario including St. Joseph's Hospital in Peterborough as well as St. Joseph's Hospital in Parry Sound, and St. Joseph's Hospital in North Bay. They also journeyed to Estevan, Saskatchewan to establish St. Joseph's Hospital. Travelling even further, they opened St. Joseph’s Hospital in Itacoataria, Brazil.
St. Joseph's Hospital, Parry Sound, Ontario
The London Sisters founded St. Joseph's Hospital in Chatham, and St. Joseph's Hospital in Sarnia, Ontario. In London, they established St. Joseph's Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital. They also set up several western hospitals including Stettler Hospital, Galahad Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital in Rimbey, and Killam General Hospital, all in Alberta.
St. Joseph's Hospital, Galahad, Alberta
The Hamilton Sisters established St. Joseph's Hospital in Guelph, St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, St. Mary's Hospital in Kitchener, and St. Joseph's Hospital in Brantford, Ontario.
St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario
Our archives has records relating to some of these hospitals. We are also engaged in cataloguing medical artifacts from the time the Sisters administered St. Joseph's Hospital in London.
