Fonds contains the records of the Toronto Office (Central region) of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada. The fonds consists primarily of textual records: minutes, correspondence, financial records, reports, immigration files, naturalization case files, social service case files and the records of attempts to trace missing individuals. There are also photographs of special events, speakers and arriving immigrants.

The fonds represents an important resource for the study of Canadian Jewry, especially when taken in conjunction with the JIAS National Office records at the Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives in Montreal, and those of the Western Office at the Library and Archives of Canada. It documents the means by which a particular Canadian ethnic community has dealt with the problems of rescue, settlement and government relations. These records also offer insight into the relationship between the Toronto Office and the other branches of JIAS, and invite comparison with similar agencies in the United States, as well as those of other ethnic groups in Canada.

The material collected includes information about the countries of origin, transportation routes, settlement and employment patterns of Jewish immigrants to Canada in the twentieth century. The documents also touch upon important related issues such as advocacy, sponsorship, admission processes, health and social problems.

These records cover several waves of immigration following the Second World War: Holocaust survivors in the late 1940s, Sephardic (North African) and Hungarian Jews in the 1950s, Russian and Czechoslovakian Jews in the 1960s, and additional Russians in the 1970s.

The records also contain significant information for those researchers looking to conduct genealogical research into Jewish immigrants and their descendants.

The fonds has been arranged with one sous-fonds, which contains the records of the National JIAS office in Montreal. In total there are 17 series. The Toronto office (main fonds) series are: 1. Board of Directors and Executive Committee Minutes; 2. Annual meeting proceedings; 3. Reports; 4. Legal ; 5. Administration; 6. JIAS Committees; 7. External committees; 8. Financial ; 9. Arrivals; 10. Immigration case files; 11. Social service assistance case files; 12. Photographs; 13. Miscellaneous. The National Office sous-fonds is divided into the following series: 1. National executive meeting minutes; 2. National annual meeting proceedings; 3. National annual reports; 4. Publications; and Photographs.

Fonds consists of Georgian Manor Home for the Aged records.

Fonds is arranged in the following series:

Administration
Development and Planning
Finance and Accounting
Legal Affairs
Media and Public Relations
Miscellaneous
Social and Health Care Services

Fonds consists of minutes from various hospital committees, correspondence, administrative and research reports, memorandums, publicity photographs, and reports and architectural drawings regarding hospital planning and construction. Records relate to the administrative, teaching and research activities of the various divisions of the hospital. Fonds is arranged into two sousfonds and five series:

Sousfonds
1) Board of Trustees of the Ontario Cancer Institute
2) Medical Advisory Committee

Series
1) Division of Hospital Services records
2) Director of the Ontario Cancer Institute records
3) Division of Physics records
4) Division of Biological Research records
5) Division of Clinical Services records

The arrangement of the series reflects the organizational structure as it was in 1957. Since no official policy for records transfer existed, fonds is incomplete.

Sousfonds consists of minutes of meetings of the Board and their various subcommittees along with correspondence, reports, financial records, recommendations for staff appointments, curriculum vitae, hospital by-laws and other documentation referred to in the minutes. Sousfonds reflects the involvement of the Board with the establishment and maintenance of the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, and the Board's relationship with the University of Toronto and other teaching hospitals. Files are arranged in series by committee, and then chronologically by date, as per original binders. Minutes of the Board had been kept in nine separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. In addition, minutes from the Executive Committee comprised six separate binders, minutes of the Budget and Finance Committee comprised two separate binders and minutes from smaller subcommittees had their own individual binders. All files have been arranged in chronological order. The Office of the Secretary to the Board records have not been altered.

Sousfonds includes 17 series.

SF1:1) Board of Trustees [Members of OCI] minutes
SF1:2) Executive Committee minutes
SF1:3) Budget & Finance Committee [Finance & Audit Committee] minutes
SF1:4) Joint Conference Committee minutes
SF1:5) Board Development Committee minutes
SF1:6) Quality & Resource Management Committee minutes
SF1:7) Public Relations Committee minutes
SF1:8) Building Management Committee
SF1:9) Surgical Oncology [Ad Hoc Committee of the Board]
SF1:10) OCI Audit Committee minutes
SF1:11) PMH – University Joint Relations Committee minutes
SF1:12) Board Planning Committee minutes
SF1:13) OCI/PMH Board Research Committee minutes
SF1:14) PMH Trust / Foundation minutes
SF1:15) Board Books
SF1:16) Retreat Books
SF1:17) Office of the Secretary to the Board records

Series consists of minutes of meetings of the Board along with correspondence, reports, financial records, recommendations for staff appointments, curriculum vitae, hospital by-laws and other documentation referred to in the minutes. Series reflects the involvement of the Board with the establishment and maintenance of the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, and the Board's relationship with the University of Toronto and other teaching hospitals. Minutes of the Board had been kept in nine separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. Files have been arranged chronologically by date.

Series consists of minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee of the Board and its subcommittee meeting minutes. Series includes minutes from the following subcommittee: Department Heads & Senior Staff Committee. Files are arranged by committee, and then chronologically by date, as per original binders. Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Board had been kept in eight separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. Files have been arranged chronologically by date. There is one subseries:

2A) Department Heads & Senior Staff Committee

Subseries consists of minutes from the Department Heads & Senior Staff Committee. The minutes comprised three separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. Files have been arranged chronologically by date.

There is a gap in the records from 1983-1989.

Series consists of minutes of meetings of the Budget & Finance Committee of the Board and minutes of its subcommittees.

Series reflects the links the Budget & Finance Committee had with other hospital committees through joint meetings with the Board Executive Committee and with the PMH Foundation Financial Committee Board. Minutes of the Budget and Finance Committee comprised four separate binders and minutes from smaller subcommittees had their own individual binders. All files within these binders had been arranged in reverse chronological order as well. Files have been arranged chronologically by date.

Series includes minutes from the following subcommittees as subseries:
3A) OCI/OCTRF Pension Committee minutes
3B) OCI/PMH Pension Committee minutes.

Subseries consists of minutes of meetings of the OCI/OCTRF Pension Committee, a subcommittee of the Finance Committee of the Board. The minutes were kept in one binder, within which minutes had been arranged in reverse chronological order. Files have been arranged chronologically by date.

Subseries consists of minutes of meetings of the OCI/PMH Pension Committee, a subcommittee of the Finance Committee of the Board. The minutes were kept in one binder, within which, minutes had been arranged in reverse chronological order. Files have been arranged chronologically by date.