Society of St. John the Evangelist fonds

Access Restriction:

May be restrictions on access and use based on the terms of the Deposit Agreement and the Anglican Church of Canada's policy on Privacy and Archives. Subject to established university policies and to applicable privacy legislation.

Description Level:

Fonds

Name Access:

Language:

End Date:

1983

Date Range:

1927-1983

Repro Restriction:

Physical Description:

.24 m of textual records

History Biographical:

SSJE - Cowley Fathers at Bracebridge Ontario

The Society of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE and aka the Cowley Fathers), founded in the parish of Cowley, England in 1866 by Richard Meaux Benson, is the oldest religious order for men in the Anglican Communion. The society was the first stable religious order to be established in the Anglican Communion since the English Reformation of the sixteenth century. It is recognized officially as a religious community by the Anglican Church of Canada. The SSJE brothers live under a rule of life and, at profession, make monastic vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience.

In North America, the brothers preach, teach and write on the life of prayer, and offer spiritual direction and formation. Individual brothers work in a variety of local and regional ministries-with students, with prisoners, and with persons affected by HIV and AIDS. The brothers maintained a publishing company, Cowley Publications (now part of Rowman & Littlefield publishers), that produced books on topics related to prayer and spirituality for an ecumenical readership.

With the encouragement of Bishop Rocksborough R. Smith, 4th Bishop of Algoma, the SSJE founded a community in Bracebridge, Ontario in 1928 and based in the Collegiate Church of St. John the Evangelist. Bishop Smith was an annual visitor to the Mother house of U. S. Cowley Fathers is the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. The community ceased operations in Bracebridge in the mid 1980s and sold the property.

Superiors included: Father Palmer (1927-1947), Father Hawkes (1948), Father Morley (1948-1954), Father Thorton (1954-1963), Father Palmer (1963-1965), Father McCausland (1966)

Scope Content:

Fonds comprises records documenting the religious communities within the Anglican and Episcopal churches of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE aka the Cowley Fathers), the Sisters of St. John the Divine (SSJD), and the sisters of St.Margaret, who were established in Bracebridge, Ont. in the 1920s. Includes notes, correspondence, administrative records and reports, printed draft revisions of the SSJE's rule and statutes, the dedication of the Collegiate Church of St. John the Evangelist in Bracebridge, publications of the SSJE ("The Dominion" aka "The Little Paper") and of the Sisters of St. Margaret ("The Little Paper: Sisters of St. Margaret") and of the SSJD ("Hilltop and Valley"), as well as other publications and a manuscript about and by the SSJE. Also includes some records on the history of the Muskoka region and Bracebridge.

Repository:

aua

Correspondence, Reports, Newsletters and Other Material

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1961

Description Level:

End Date:

1983

Date Range:

1961-1983

Physical Description:

2.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Chapter Minutes and Correspondence

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1966

Description Level:

End Date:

1980

Date Range:

1966-1980

Physical Description:

2.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Cowley Fathers, A Study of the Beginning of Monasticism in the Anglican Church of Canada by Johnston Bain Peever

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1963

Description Level:

End Date:

1963

Date Range:

1963

Physical Description:

1.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

S.S.J.E. Magazine (Cowley)

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1950

Description Level:

End Date:

1959

Date Range:

[195-?]

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

S.S.J.E. Magazine (Cowley Bracebridge)

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1950

Description Level:

End Date:

1959

Date Range:

[195-?]

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Readiness and Decency, A Simple Method of Celebrating the Holy Eucharist and Other Services, Roland F. Palmer and John H. Hawkes

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1961

Description Level:

End Date:

1961

Date Range:

1961

Physical Description:

1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Muskoka Lore, from the Diary of R. H. Loosemore

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1951

Description Level:

End Date:

1951

Date Range:

1951

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Psalms Then and Now, R. F. Palmer

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Start Date:

1965

Description Level:

End Date:

1965

Date Range:

1965

Physical Description:

1.5 cm of textual records

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2009-062-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Hilltop and Valley, Sisters of St. John the Evangelist

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1948

Description Level:

End Date:

1957

Date Range:

1948-1957

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

God's Rock Garden, The Little Paper of the Sisters of Saint Margaret

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1933

Description Level:

End Date:

1944

Date Range:

1933-1944

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

S.S.J.E. Reports and Releases

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1927

Description Level:

End Date:

1979

Date Range:

1927-1929, 1979

Physical Description:

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

His Dominion, The Little Paper of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, The Cowley Fathers

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1929

Description Level:

End Date:

1939

Date Range:

1929-1939

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

The Little Paper of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, The Cowley Fathers

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GMD:

Start Date:

1940

Description Level:

End Date:

1949

Date Range:

1940-1949

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

The Little Paper of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, The Cowley Fathers

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1950

Description Level:

End Date:

1957

Date Range:

1950-1957

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

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Container Number:

002

The Little Paper of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, The Cowley Fathers

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1975

Description Level:

End Date:

1979

Date Range:

1975-1979

Physical Description:

1.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

The Little Paper of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, The Cowley Fathers

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1980

Description Level:

End Date:

1983

Date Range:

1980-1983

Physical Description:

1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

The Cowley Fathers, S.S.J.E.

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1930

Description Level:

End Date:

1930

Date Range:

1930

Physical Description:

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

"Where are you going?": for Men (and Women) of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. or the Church of Canada

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1945

Description Level:

End Date:

1945

Date Range:

[After 1945]

Physical Description:

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Canadian Cowley, S.S.J.E. Bracebridge

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1935

Description Level:

End Date:

1935

Date Range:

1935

Physical Description:

1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Canadian Cowley, S.S.J.E. Bracebridge, Second Edition

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1940

Description Level:

End Date:

1940

Date Range:

1940

Physical Description:

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Canadian Cowley, S.S.J.E. Bracebridge, Third Edition

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1950

Description Level:

End Date:

1950

Date Range:

1950

Physical Description:

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

The Priestly Life, A Quarterly on Spirituality Published for the Ember Seasons

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1969

Description Level:

End Date:

1969

Date Range:

1969

Physical Description:

.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Saint John's Eagle, The Sisters of St. John the Divine

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1945

Description Level:

End Date:

1945

Date Range:

1945

Physical Description:

.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-062-002

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Firmly I believe

Language:

Creator:

John G. McCausland S.S.J.E.

GMD:

Start Date:

1950

Description Level:

End Date:

1950

Date Range:

[after 1950]

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1.7 cm of textual records.

Notes:

White softcover book.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Counting myself happy

Publication:

Toronto: Anglican Book Centre

Standard No:

ISBN 0-921846-03-7

Language:

Creator:

John G. McCausland S.S.J.E.

GMD:

Start Date:

1989

Description Level:

End Date:

1989

Date Range:

1989

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Firmly I believe

Publication:

Bracebridge, Ontario: The Society of Saint John the Evangelist

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Issue:

Standard No:

ISSN 0383-7424

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Creator:

John G. McCausland S.S.J.E.

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Custodial History:

Start Date:

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Style or Pattern:

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Date Range:

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1.8 cm of textual records.

Notes:

Yellow softcover book.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

The cowley carol book

Publication:

London: A.R. Mowbray & Co. Limited

Language:

Latin

Creator:

Compiled and arranged by George Ratcliffe Woodward, Mus.Doc. and Charles Wood.

GMD:

Start Date:

1962

Description Level:

End Date:

1962

Date Range:

1962

Language:

English and Latin

Physical Description:

1.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

The taking of junior vows

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GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1969

Description Level:

End Date:

1969

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1969 December 21

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.1 cm of textual records.

Notes:

The taking of junior vows in the S.S.J.E. Brother Patrick James, Brother Robert. Three o'clock in the afternoon, Sunday, December 21st, 1969.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Prayers of a weary pilgrim

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Responsibility:

Custodial History:

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Style or Pattern:

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Date Range:

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.5 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Psalms then and now

Publication:

Bracebridge, Ontario: The Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Language:

Creator:

R.F. Palmer, S.S.J.E., B.A., D.D. with a forward by Canon F.H. Cosgrave, M.A., D.D., LL.D.

GMD:

Start Date:

1965

Description Level:

End Date:

1965

Date Range:

1965

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1.8 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Wings, a book of poetry

Publication:

Willowdale, Ontario: Sisterhood og St. John the Divine

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Creator:

Members of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine.

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1984

Description Level:

End Date:

1984

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1984

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.5 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

When ye pray, praying with the Church

Publication:

Bracebridge, Ontario: Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Volume:

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Standard No:

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Master scans folder location:

Creator:

Roland F. Palmer, S.S.J.E., D.D.

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1964

Description Level:

End Date:

1966

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1964, 1966 June 5

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Good news

Publication:

Bracebridge, Ontario: The Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Standard No:

ISBN 0-920888-00-3

Language:

Creator:

Roland F. Palmer, S.S.J.E. with forward by the most Rev'd Derwyn T. Owen, D.D. D.C.L.

GMD:

Start Date:

1979

Description Level:

End Date:

1980

Date Range:

1979 - 1980 February

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.6 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

The Church's answers, third edition

Publication:

Bracebridge, Ontario: The Society of Saint John the Evangelist

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Standard No:

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Language:

Master scans folder location:

Creator:

J.G. McCausland, S.S.J.E., M.A.

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1963

Description Level:

End Date:

1963

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1963 July

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1.8 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

A firm faith, sermons and other papers

Publication:

Bracebridge, Ontario: The Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Volume:

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Issue:

Standard No:

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Creator:

Reverend David Hemming, S.S.J.E.

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1969

Description Level:

End Date:

1969

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1969

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.7 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

The doctor who never refused a call

Publication:

Sprucedale, Ontario: Olympic Printing

Volume:

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Standard No:

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Creator:

M.A. Wittick C.M, M.D.

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1978

Description Level:

End Date:

1978

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1978

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.8 cm of textual records.

Notes:

An autobiography by M.A. Wittick C.M, M.D. as told to Helen Maddeaux.

rec_shelfloc:

2019-004-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Collegiate Church of St. John the Evangelist (Bracebridge, Ont.)

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Collegiate Church of St. John the Evangelist (Bracebridge, Ont.) sous fonds

Description Level:

Sous Fonds

Parish Register

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1946

Description Level:

End Date:

1982

Date Range:

1946-1982

Physical Description:

4.5 cm of textual records

Notes:

Baptisms, 1946-1970|Marriages, 1946-1982|Burials, 1947-1982|Confirmations, 1947-1977

rec_shelfloc:

2009-093-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Collegiate Church of St. John the Evangelist (Bracebridge, Ont.)

Container Number:

001

Baptism Register

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1939

Description Level:

End Date:

1982

Date Range:

1939-1982

Physical Description:

3.8 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-093-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No: