Fonds PR0077 - Sœurs de l’Assomption de la Sainte-Vierge fonds

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Sœurs de l’Assomption de la Sainte-Vierge fonds

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    PR0077

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    • 1853 - 2013 (Creation)
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      Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

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    15.14 m of textual records and other material

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    (1853-2021)

    Administrative history

    The religious community of the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was founded in the province of Québec, at Saint-Grégoire near Nicolet, in 1853 as a teaching community by Fr. Jean Harper and Léocadie Bourgeois, the first Mother Superior. In 1872 the mother-house of the community was definitely established at Nicolet and from there, missionary groups went to rural parishes in the dioceses of the Province of Québec.

    The Sisters came to Western Canada in 1891 to the Oblate mission of Onion Lake, in Saskatchewan, as a result of Bishop Vital Grandin’s need for missionary teachers. From Onion Lake the Sisters spread quickly to other Roman Catholic missions in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In addition to native communities, the Sisters served the francophone population in Western Canada. Outside Canada, the Sisters worked in the United States, Brazil and Japan.

    The community was divided into various ecclesiastical provinces. Alberta and Saskatchewan belonged to the ecclesiastical Province of St. John the Evangelist, administered by a Provincial office located in Edmonton, until 1998 when this ecclesiastical Province disappeared; Alberta and Saskatchewan are now directly under the administration of the community mother-house or head office in Nicolet, Province of Québec.

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    The fonds consists of convent and school records in the ecclesiastical Province of St. John the Evangelist run by the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and embracing Alberta and Saskatchewan. The records of these institutions include, with gaps, the chronicles of yearly highlights with, in most cases, yearly lists of personnel and students; the financial journals which normally contain index of boarders and/or students, registers of admissions and departures, journals of receipts and expenditures; volumes containing programs of events, such as birthdays or anniversaries or Christmas concerts; half-yearly financial reports; inventories of properties; statements of accounts normally containing records of gifts, costs, taxes, insurance policies; minutes of local meetings; records of pupils associated with the Sisters in clubs; records of awards; registers of first communions and confirmations.
    The fonds also holds material concerning the Japanese internment camps in Slocan, British Columbia, during the years of the Second World War; some materials concerning the general administration of the Sisters; publications written by the Sisters or used by the Sisters in the schools; personal records of sisters covering their career or research.

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    In 1973 the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin of the ecclesiastical Province of St. John signed a permanent loan agreement with the Government of Alberta which holds their archives from convents and schools run by the Sisters in Western Canada. Some sisters have donated their own records and those were added to the community’s records.

    Arrangement

    This fonds is organized according to a previously existing inventory and according to a numerical system previously developed by the creator. The records were labelled with a two-numerical system. The first numeral was the number of the convent or school concerned; the second numeral signified the category of document for the institution. This arrangement was followed as much as possible by the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
    The records are organized in the following series:
    PR0077.0001 – Provincial administration office
    PR0077.0002 – Académie Assomption community, Edmonton
    PR0077.0003 – Battleford community, Saskatchewan
    PR0077.0004 – Biggar community, Saskatchewan
    PR0077.0005 – Bonnie Doon and Holyrood communities, Edmonton
    PR0077.0006 – Bonnyville community
    PR0077.0007 – Brosseau community
    PR0077.0008 – Delmas community
    PR0077.0009 – Hobbema community
    PR0077.0010 – Jasper Place community
    PR0077.0011 – La Corey community
    PR0077.0012 – Mallaig community
    PR0077.0013 – Onion Lake community, Saskatchewan
    PR0077.0014 – Saint-Edouard community
    PR0077.0015 – Saint-Joachim community
    PR0077.0016 – Saint-Paul community
    PR0077.0017 – Saint-Vincent community
    PR0077.0018 – Slocan City community, British-Columbia
    PR0077.0019 – Thérien community
    PR0077.0020 – Val-Marie community, Saskatchewan
    PR0077.0021 – Wetaskiwin community
    PR0077.0022 – Papiers personnels de Sœurs de l'Assomption
    PR0077.0023 – Photographies diverses

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        Most of the records are in French.

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        Access Conditions: Some records are restricted.

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        Use Conditions: Subject to the Copyright Act.

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        File list is available.

        Associated materials

        Other information concerning the activities of the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin can be found in the Sisters' head office in the province of Québec (311 rue Saint-Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, Québec, J3T 1H5). Additional correspondence between the Sisters in Western Canada and the Superior General can be also found in the head office archives.

        Other information concerning the activities of the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin can be found in the Sisters’ head office in the province of Québec (311 rue Saint-Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, Québec, J3T 1H5). Additional correspondence between the Sisters in Western Canada and the Superior General can be also found in the head office archives.

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        Further accruals are not expected.

        General note

        Includes the following accessions:

        PR1987.0069, PR1992.0285, PR1992.0528, PR1993.0281, PR1994.0115, PR1995.0062, PR1987.0143, PR1987.0312,
        PR1987.0352, PR1988.0147, PR1988.0212, PR1989.0151, PR1978.0204, PR2000.0033, PR2009.0492, PR2014.0001,
        PR2014.0002, PR1973.0489, PR1973.0080, PR1981.0135, PR1981.0417, PR1990.0293, PR1991.0224, PR1992.0058,
        PR1992.0285, PR1992.0528, PR1993.0281, PR1994.0115, PR1995.0062, PR1987.0069, PR1987.0143, PR1987.0312,
        PR1987.0352, PR1988.0147, PR1988.0212, PR1989.0151, PR1978.0204, PR2000.0033, PR2009.0492, PR1981.0135,
        PR1981.0417, PR1973.0489, PR2014.0001, PR2014.0002, PR1973.0080, PR1990.0293, PR1991.0224, PR1992.0058

        Physical description

        Includes ca. 1000 black and white photographic prints, ca. 750 colour photographic prints, ca. 500 colour 35 mm transparencies and 18 12” colour transparencies, 3 DVDs, 3 Compact Discs: audio, 3 ½’’ open reel videos, 11 VHS videocassettes, 10 U-matic videocassettes, 11 plaques.

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        PR077

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