Materials related to awards received by Joan Hollobon and the Hollobon Award. Includes biographical notes and articles about Hollobon, related newspaper clippings and correspondence, photographs of the Hollobon Award ceremony in 1987 and 1990, and a copy of Science Link by Canadian Science Writers’ Association, Vol. 9, No. 3 (June 1989). Also contains the following awards and certificates received by Hollobon:

• Lifetime Achievement Award by Science in Society Journalism Awards (2010),
• Certificate of appreciation by the Canadian Science Writers’ Association (1981),
• Award of Distinction by the Health Care Public Relations Association (1984),
• Honorary Member recognition of the Ontario Medical Association (1985),
• Congratulation certificate by the Government of Ontario (2015),

Materials related to Joan Hollobon’s reception of the Ortho Medical Journalism Award (by the Canadian Science Writers’ Association) for outstanding contribution to medical journalism in Canada presented by Ortho Pharmaceutical Canada Ltd. in recognition of a series of articles about transsexuality and sex reassignment surgery, published by Hollobon in the Globe and Mail in 1972. Includes related correspondence, articles, a photograph of Hollobon receiving the award, and a copy of The Release published by the Canadian Public Relations Society (January/February 1973).

Materials related to Kay Rex’s book No daughter of mine : the women and history of the Canadian Women's Press Club, 1904-1971. Includes photographs of the book launch event (May 31, 1995), correspondence about the event and book, Rex’s speech, the copyright for the book, a bio sketch for Rex, and a promotional pamphlet for the book.

Materials related to renovations to the house Joan Hollobon and Kay Rex shared (217 Shaw Street, Toronto (ON)). Includes a Rex diary of renovations, floorplans and photographs of the property, and related correspondence. Also contains a mugshot of Kay Rex.

Materials created or accumulated by Joan Hollobon about Kay Rex. Includes correspondence to Hollobon and to Hollobon and Rex, photographs of Rex, writings by Rex, and correspondence about the Women’s Press Club of Toronto’s Kay Rex Scholarship.

Newspaper clippings of articles by Joan Hollobon published in the Globe and Mail (1966-1968), Science Medicine (1984), and Science Forum (1978). Includes drafts of articles; contextualizing and research articles, documentation, and correspondence; and correspondence congratulating Hollobon for her work.

Personal correspondence received by Joan Hollobon from her mother (Alice Hollobon) from December 1947 to July 1948, while Joan Hollobon was working in Berlin at the Allied Control Commission of Germany and Austria. Includes one photograph of an Anglican pastor, possibly Joan Hollobon's father.
Alice Hollobon died in September of 1948 of bone cancer at age 61.

Correspondence sent and received by Joan Hollobon from and about the Gamble family. Includes photographs of the family, articles by George Alvan Gamble (Member of the Order of Canada, Canada Mental Health Association, Canadian Baptist Federation), and the programme for George Alvan Gamble’s funeral.

Personal correspondence received by Joan Hollobon from her father (Ernest Frederick "Tony" Hollobon), her step-mother, and other family members and friends in the United Kingdom. Also contains correspondence between Joan Hollobon and doctors requesting information about her father's health, and a letter written by her father to his Officer Commanding.
Includes postcards and sections of the publication Eastbourne Paris Church monthly news from March 1973. Also includes photographs of Joan Hollobon's father.

Personal and professional correspondence sent and received by Joan Hollobon and contextual information related to Hollobon’s article about the Oakridge maximum security division of the Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre. Includes a certificate of Appreciation from the Ontario Hospital Penetanguishene, copies of the 1968 Globe and Mail article, and other articles by Hollobon regarding mental health. Also contains materials related to Gerald (Gerry) Banks (one of the patients at Penetanguishene Hospital that Hollobon interviewed for her article).