In 1905, Dr. Vincent Sellaro founded the Order Sons of Italy in America to "unite in one single family all the Italians scattered throughout the Americas...".
The first Canadian lodge of this fraternal organization was founded in Sault Ste Marie in 1915. By 1940, the Order had 29 lodges across Ontario. Currently, there are 15 lodges and a total of approximately 2300 members.
Grand Lodge Records
| Reference Code | Description | Dates | Archives
of Ontario Microfilm Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| F 4378-1-1 | Incorporation,
constitution,
by-laws and
ceremony books | 1915-1994 | MS 7389 |
Incorporation
records,
constitution,
by-laws and |
1937-1994 | MS 7403 | |
| F 4378-1-2 | National
Council & Presidents'
Meetings minutes and agendas (gaps) |
1968-1999 | MS 7389 |
| National Council & Presidents' Meetings minutes and agendas | 1968-1999/ 1995-1999 | MS 7390 | |
| National Council & Presidents' Meetings minutes and agendas | 1946-1983 | MS 7403 | |
| National Council & Presidents' Meetings minutes and agendas | 1984-1993 | MS 7404 | |
| F 4378-1-3 | Mutual Benefit Society annual statements (regulatory reports) | 1984-1990 | MS 7390 |
| Mutual Benefit Society Annual Statements [regulatory reports] (gaps) | 1962-1984 | MS 7404 | |
| F 4378-1-4 | Mutual Benefit Society records of benefits paid (Files 1-10) | 1977-1988 | MS 7390 |
| Mutual Benefit Society records of benefits paid (Files 11-12) | 1989-1990 | MS 7391 | |
| Mutual Benefit Soc. Records of benefits paid | 1979 | MS 7404 | |
| F 4378-1-5 | Annual Financial Statements | 1968-1997 | MS 7391 |
| Annual Financial Statements | 1953-1971 | MS 7404 | |
| F 4378-1-6 | Budgets, Cash Flow, Statements of Assets | 1980-1995 | MS 7391 |
| F 4378-1-7 | Paid Accounts (gaps) | 1977-1990 | MS 7391 |
| Paid Accounts | 1980 | MS 7404 | |
| F 4378-1-8 | Ledgers, cheque registers and monthly payment registers | 1951-1974 | MS 7391 |
| Ledgers, cheque registers and monthly payment registers | 1951-1991/1974-1991 | MS 7392 | |
| Ledgers, cheque registers and monthly payment registers | 1951-1991/ 1974-1991 | MS 7393 | |
| F 4378-1-9 | Membership
& monthly payment
records (files 1-37 [1978-1984]) |
1978-1994 | MS 7393 |
| Membership
& monthly payment
records (files 38-79 [1985-1987]) |
1978-1994 | MS 7394 | |
| Membership
& monthly payment
records (files 80-126 [1988-1994]) |
1978-1994 | MS 7395 | |
| Membership
& monthly payment
records (files 127-133) |
1951-1991 | MS 7404 | |
| Membership
& monthly payment
records (files 134-188) |
1951-1991 | MS 7405 | |
| Membership
& monthly payment
records (files 189-213) |
1951-1991 | MS 7406 | |
| F 4378-1-10 | Convention records | 1963-1999 | MS 7396 |
| Convention records Files 1-14 | 1946-1973 | MS 7407 | |
| Convention records Files 15-22 | 1946-1989 | MS 7408 | |
| Convention records Files 23-28 | 1991-2001 | MS 7409 | |
| F 4378-1-11 | Miscellaneous
correspondence
and subject files (Files 1-20) |
1915-1999 | MS 7397 |
| Miscellaneous
correspondence
and subject files
(Files 21-38) |
1915-1999 | MS 7398 | |
| Miscellaneous
correspondence
and subject files (Files 39-57) |
1915-1999 | MS 7399 | |
| Miscellaneous
correspondence
and subject files
(Files 58-64) |
1915-1999 | MS 7400 | |
| Miscellaneous correspondence and subject files | 1938-1993 | MS 7410 | |
| F 4378-1-12 | Nat'l Admin.
Secretary's Correspondence
and Subject files (Files 1-10) |
1950-1990 | MS 7400 |
| Nat'l Admin.
Secretary's Correspondence
and Subject files (Files 11-23) |
1950-1990 | MS 7401 | |
| National Admin.
Secretary correspondence
and Subject files (Files 24-31) |
1950-1989 | MS 7410 | |
| National Admin.
Secretary correspondence
and Subject files (Files 32-43) |
1950-1989 | MS 7411 | |
| F 4378-1-13 | National recording
secretary's correspondence
& Subject files (Files 1-19) |
1951, 1979-1996 |
MS 7401 |
| National recording
secretary's correspondence
& Subject files (Files 20-39) |
1951, 1979-1996 | MS 7402 | |
| National recording
secretary's correspondence and subject files (Files 40-43) |
1974-1987 | MS 7411 | |
| National recording
secretary's correspondence
and subject files (File 44) |
1974-1987 | MS 7412 | |
| F 4378-1-14 | Central Correspondence file | 1973-1992 | MS 7412 |
| F 4378-1-15 | Libero & Clementina Sauro's correspondence | 1918, 1939-1951 |
MS 7412 |
| F 4378-1-16 | Grand Venerable Sam Cino's files | 1969-1974 | MS 7413 |
| F 4378-1-17 | Grand Venerable Rocco Tamburro's correspondence | 1973-1975 | MS 7413 |
| F 4378-1-18 | Grand Venerable Ted Pizzo's correspondence | 1971-1982 | MS 7413 |
| F 4378-1-19 | Grand Venerable Rick Francescutti's correspondence | 1981-1985 | MS 7414 |
| F 4378-1-20 | National President
Chris Bennedsen's
files (Files 1-9) |
[1982] - 1999 | MS 7414 |
| National President
Chris Bennedsen's
files (Files 10-16) |
[1982] - 1999 | MS 7415 | |
| National President
Chris Bennedsen's
files (Files 17-36) |
[1982] - 1999 | MS 7416 | |
| National President
Chris Bennedsen's
files (Files 37-44) |
[1982] - 1999 | MS 7417 | |
| F 4378-1-21 | National President
Charles Criminisi's
files (Files 1-12) |
1993-1999 | MS 7417 |
| National President
Charles Criminisi's
files (Files 13-25) |
1993-1999 | MS 7418 | |
| National President
Charles Criminisi's
files (Files 26-27) |
1993-1999 | MS 7419 | |
| F 4378-1-22 | Mutual Benefit
Society administration
and dissolution (Files 1-7) |
1927-1995 | MS 7419 |
| Mutual Benefit
Society administration
and dissolution (Files 8-10) |
1927-1995 | MS 7420 | |
| F 4378-1-23 | Newsletters | 1980-2001 | MS 7420 |
| F 4378-1-24 | Newspaper Clippings | [196-]-[199-] | MS 7420 |
| F 4378-1-25 | Pamphlets & ephemera (files 1-2) | 1951-1999 | MS 7420 |
| Pamphlets & ephemera (files 3-9) | 1951-1999 | MS 7421 |
Local Lodges
| Reference Code | Description | Dates | Archives
of Ontario Microfilm Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| F 4378-2 | Giuseppe
Verdi Lodge
records (sub-series F 4378-2-1 to 4378-2-5) | 1915-1990 | MS 7238 |
| F 4378-2 | Giuseppe
Verdi Lodge
records (sub-series F 4378-2-6 to 4378-2-9) |
1934-1990 | MS 7239 |
| F 4378-3 | Princess Marie Jose Lodge records | 1934-1982 | MS 7240 |
| F 4378-4 | Aurora Lodge records | 1939-1982 | MS 7241 |
| F 4378-5 | Rossini Lodge records | 1953-1971 | MS 7242 |
| F 4378-6 | Roma Imperia Lodge records | 1977-1982 | MS 7243 |
| F 4367-7 | Imperia Lodge records | 1936-1989 | |
| F 4378-8 | Trieste Lodge records | 1934-1983 | MS 7244 |
| F 4378-9 | Roma Imperiale Lodge records | 1936-1972 | MS 7245 |
| F 4378-10 | Maria Di Monte Carmelo Lodge records | 1935-1952 | |
| F 4378-11 | Maria Pia Di Savoia Lodge records | 1937-1948 | |
| F 4378-12 | Niagara Lodge records | 1935-1965 | |
| F 4378-13 | Femminile Ontario Lodge records | 1937-1946 | |
| F 4378-14 | Fiorente Lodge records | 1934-1991 | MS 7246 |
| F 4378-15 | Ontario Lodge records | 1934-1961 | MS 7247 |
| F 4378-16 | Patronato Lodge records (sub-series F 4378-16-1 to 4378-16-2) |
1936-1992 | |
| F 4378-16 | Patronato Lodge records (sub-series F 4378-16-3 to 4378-16-8) |
1936-1991 | MS 7248 |
| F 4378-16 | Patronato Lodge records (sub-series F 4378-16-9) |
1966-1987 1966-1987 |
MS 7249 |
| F 4378-17 | Littorio Lodge records | 1937-1940 | |
| F 4378-18 | Vittoria Colonna Lodge records | 1939-1940 | |
| F 4378-19 | Principe Umberto Lodge records | 1932-1970 | MS 7250 |
| F 4378-20 | Regina Lodge records | 1965-1982 | |
| F 4378-21 | Dante Alighieri Lodge records | 1937-1982 | MS 7251 |
| F 4378-22 | Club Italia Lodge records | 1934-1982 | MS 7252 |
| F 4378-23 | Principe Vittorio Emanuele Lodge records | 1937-1948 | MS 7253 |
| F 4378-24 | Vesuvius Lodge records | 1967-1968 | |
| F 4378-25 | Capri Lodge records | 1934-1982 | |
| F 4378-26 | Latina Lodge records | 1966-1982 |