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In 2017, our archives won the award for the Archives Association of Ontario Corporate Award. This award is given to organizations, corporations, or agencies of any kind that have been particularly supportive of archives and/or the archival community. Nominees may include:

• Organizations that have provided significant support to the promotion of education, publishing, and/or other professional activities (including mounting of programs on behalf of the archival community, provision of expertise, or direct financial contribution).
• Organizations that have provided significant support to the activities of a particular institution.
• Organizations that have demonstrated imagination or creativity in the use of archives.

In 2021, Mary Grace Kosta, our Congregational Archivist won two awards:

The James J. Talman Award from the Archives Association of Ontario: this award is given to individuals who have demonstrated an outstanding level of imagination and innovation in contributing to the profession, their institution, or the archival community, or who have challenged conventional thinking about archival work.

For more information: https://aao-archivists.ca/resources/Documents/Membership/Awards/AAO%202021%20Awards%20Annoucement.pdf

The Sr. Claude Lane, O.P, Memorial Award from the Society of American Archivists: this award recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of religious archives. Selection criteria include:

• Involvement and work in the Archivists of Religious Collections Section of the Society of American Archivists;
• Contributions to archival literature that relates to religious archives;
• Participation and leadership in religious archives organizations; and/or
• Evidence of leadership in a specific religious archives.

For more information: https://www2.archivists.org/node/25429

We are proud to be an award winning archives!

The American Catholic Historical Association features Hidden Catholic Collections on its website at https://achahistory.org/category/hidden-catholic-collections/. This is a wonderful way to become familiar with Catholic religious archives.

The ACHA, in its own words, is “a conference of scholars, archivists, and teachers of Catholic studies. It is the place where the field of Catholic studies begins.” Its goals are to promote the history of the Catholic Church and advance historical scholarship.It’s interests lie in the history of the Church, including doctrine, spirituality, and missionary activity, and the history of its relations with civil society and interaction with the intellectual, cultural, social, and political life of the wider society.

The Hidden Catholic Collections series highlights many different religious archives, including the Selma, Alabama Collection in the Sisters of St. Joseph Archive in Rochester, NY, the Archives of the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States-Canada Province in St. Louis, MO, and the Sisters of the Precious Blood Archives in Dayton, OH.

We are thrilled that our archives has been selected for inclusion in the Hidden Catholic Collections series. Please visit: https://achahistory.org/hidden-catholic-collections/

A wonderful site for those interested in the history of women religious can be found at www.catholicresearch.org. Here are some of the resources you will find at this website:

Our consolidated archives can be found on this site as well! We encourage you to visit today, if you are interested in researching the history of women religious.