This appears to have formed one of the research folders used by Kay Rex for the purposes of researching for her book “No Daughter of Mine: The Women and History of the Canadian Women’s Press Club, 1904-1971” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995).

This folder contains printed materials issued by the C.W.P.C including a flyer (1965?) containing a brief resume of the history of the club, and a booklet entitled “Pathfinders” authored by Miriam Green Ellis and published by the C.W.P.C. This booklet contains biographical information on some of the prominent C.W.P.C members from its earliest days including Emily Murphy, Agnes Maule Macha, Susanna Moodie, Genevieve Lipsell Sinker, Katherine Hale, Kennethe M. Haig, Mae Clendenan, Elizabeth Bailey Price, Irene Moore, Marshall Saunders, Annie E. Mathewson, E. Cora Hind, Violet McNaughton, and Nellie L. McClung. A flyer produced by the Media Club of Canada Inc. and featuring information on this club is also contained in this file. Also included in this file is the Golden Jubilee (1904-1954) publication of “Newspacket”, a C.W.P.C publication. This issue of “Newspacket” serves as a record of the history of the first fifty years of the C.W.P.C.

Other items in this file include articles written by Kay Rex herself, which appeared in two different serials in 1980 and 1990 respectively. The article from 1980 reports on the beginnings of the Newspaper Guild in Canada and was written on the 47th International Convention of this Guild in 1980. The second article from 1990 is from an April issue of “The Byliner” and focuses on Emily Murphy, a journalist and fifth national president of the C.W.P.C who fought for women's rights in Canada.

Also contained in this file is a request for information on C.W.P.C members from anyone who has been associated with the club or has had relatives who were members. Kay Rex placed this request in the May/June 1987 issue of “Content”.

This file also contains articles on prominent C.W.P.C members that appeared in various journals. This includes an article by Robin Rowland from 1978 about Kathleen Blake "Kit 11 Coleman, prominent female journalist with the “Mail and Empire”, the world's first accredited woman war correspondent, and first president of the C.W.P.C. A second article by Barbara Freeman from 1994 focuses on the history of female journalism.

Finally, this file contains a list of individuals who were interviewed by Kay Rex for the purposes of her book on the C.W.P.C published in 1995.

Documents, mostly printed items, found loose among the other papers, containing information on the following: Kathleen Blake "Kit" Coleman, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Kate Aitken, and a story on the 1947 By-Line Ball written by Ruth Hammond and Cay Moore Miller. Included is a May 1978 edition of Content: Canada's National News Media Magazine (Number 85) with a feature about Kit Watkins and an article regarding women journalists in the west, such as Isobel Armstrong, E. Cora Hind, and the Beynon sisters - Lillian and Frances Marion. Also in the file is information about Judith Robinson: a note by Kay Rex and a copy of News, the paper Robinson started during the war.

File includes:

• News Clippings 1968-1974;
• interview with Dorothy Dearborn, marked printout, photograph with identifications on verso, 1987;
• Vera Ayling typescript recollections "Early Days ofthe C.W.P.C in New Brunswick", 1987;
• photocopied correspondence ca. 1965-1966 from Glen Hancock, sent to Kay Rex in 1987;
• correspondence and clippings re Marshall Saunders, 1993.

Verso of Dearborn photo reads: "L. to R. Corinne Noonan, Vera Ayling, Sharon Saveed Pond, Esther Crandall, Dorothy Dearborn, Mary Savard, Sharon's mother, since deceased."

Clipping of Halifax Chronicle-Herald article "Mark Anniversary of N.S. Author's Birth" about the life and career of Canadian author Margaret Marshall Saunders.

Correspondence, notes, December 1993 Newspacket, original news clippings dated 1963, photocopied news clippings, and 3 photographs from events in Montreal and Edmonton. The edition of Newspacket features a memorium about Ruth Gordon and articles about Marshall Saunders and Jean Craig, and has the 1993 Annual Report of the Media Club of Canada tucked inside. Clippings include biographical information about Evelyn Margery Hinds, Bess Forbes.

Two folded flyers dated 1965 and 1968 containing "a brief resume of the history of the C.W.P.C." Includes lists of Presidents from 1904-1968, as well as biographical information about Evelyn Margery Hinds, Bess Forbes, and three photographs from events in Montreal and Edmonton. Also in the file is the December 1993 edition of Newspacket featuring a memorium about Ruth Gordon and articles about Marshall Saunders, Jean Craig, with the 1993 Annual Report of the Media Club of Canada tucked inside.

An alphabetical tab-indexed scrapbook containing typescript biographies, photographs, and some signatures of members, by members. The photographs are notable for their candid nature. Unbound inclusions from the 1930's include a typescript obituaries and biographies for Mamie C. G. Fraser, Dora Olive Thompson, and Louis Rorke, as well as a "Memorandum" autographed by Marshall Saunders accompanying a typescript carbon list of first editions of her works.

Contributors and subjects in scrapbook:

• Florence Deacon Black
• Annie Grey Butcher
• Hazel Cleaver
• Myrtle Leeta Cherry
• Emily Orr Elliott
• Margaret Laing Fairbairn
• Muriel Stevenson Folinsbee
• Amelia Warnock Garvin (Katherine Hale)
• Jean Graham
• Bertha Foster Golder
• Mrs. J. W. F. Harrison (Seranus)
• Maude Pettit Hill
• Mary Isabel Houston (Sinclair Dunlop - Isabel Letfern)
• Kate Fleury Jaffray
• Jane Fraser Keith
• Jane Stuart Larrington
• Florence Randal Livesay (Kilmeny)
• Marjory MacMurchy
• Mary Agnes Pease
• Claire I. Prime
• Mona Cleaver Purse (Mrs. Buylow - Polly Peele)
• Mabel Crews Ringland, B.A. (Jack Thorne)
• Louise Richardson Rorke
• Marshall Saunders
• Abbie Lyon Sharman (Lyon Sharman)
• Bessie Stanbury
• Virna Staunton Sheard
• Florence B. Steiner
• Mary Dawson Snider
• Agnes Swinarton (Helen McFarlane)
• Charlotte Miriam Storey (Kitty Hardcastle)
• G. C. M. White [not photo included]