The Scarboro Foreign Mission Society Fonds
In 2023 the John M. Kelly Library at the University of St. Michael’s College became the permanent home of the records of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society with the arrival of approximately 100 linear meters of archival material. These records document the work done by the organization since its founding in 1918 and includes materials on missions in pre-Cultural Revolution China, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Canada.
The donation of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society records to St. Michael’s will preserve the order’s history, both local and global, in a permanent home while further cementing the John M. Kelly Library as the preeminent location for research into the history of religious communities in Canada.
About the records
The Scarboro Foreign Mission Society fonds consists of the governance, administrative, and personnel records for the community of the Society. This includes reports, financial records, meeting minutes, policies and handbooks, General Chapter records, Society Constitutions, correspondence, publications by and about the Society, as well as an abundance of photographs, slides, and audiovisual materials.
In addition to general administrative records of the Society's domestic and international operations, the fonds also contains reference materials and publications from other Catholic missionary societies, collected materials on the Our Lady of Fatima Pilgrimage tour led by SFM members, Msgr. William C. McGrath and Rev. Patrick Moore, sub-collections on SFM founder Msgr. John Mary Fraser, and member, Bishop Kenneth Turner, and a collection of ephemera gathered by SFM members over the years documenting the Society.
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