File consists of two copies of an appointment book put out by the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario. This year's book features historical information on the RNAO and was researched and written by Kay Rex.

File consists of one personal accounts book kept by Kay Rex for the year 1940.

File consists of one personal accounts book kept by Kay Rex for the year 1936.

File consists of one personal accounts book kept by Kay Rex for the year 1941.

File consists of one address book belonging to Kay Rex.

File consists of one address book belonging to Kay Rex.

File consists of two arrowheads from an unidentified First Nation.

File consists of one autograph album owned by Kay Rex featuring autographs from friends and family members.

File consists of one copy of Kay Rex's birth certificate.

File consists of seven calling cards belonging to Kay Rex. Each is inscribed "Miss. Kathleen Rex."

File consists of materials relating to Canadian Government Annuities for both Kay Rex and Kenneth Rex. Includes annuity contracts, correspondence, and accompanying materials.

File consists of the original certificate of record of birth for Kay Rex. The certificate has a small identification photograph of Rex attached along with stamps from immigration Canada from 1944.

File consists of forty three Christmas cards sent to Kay Rex and Joan Hollobon from friends and family.

Group portrait of a a class of children seen standing, kneeling and seated against a brick wall outdoors. Possibly includes a seven year old Kay Rex. Child seated at front center is holding up a small chalk board that reads: "Wm. Burgess School. May 21st 1925. Room - 2"

Photograph of a classroom of children seated at desks and standing along the back of the room. An adult is seen standing at back left looking on. Possibly includes a nine year old Kay Rex.

File consists of fourteen clippings of articles written by Kay Rex. Primarily consists of articles written for the Globe and Mail.

File consists of one composition book belonging to Kay Rex. The compositions include short stories, songs and poems. File also includes accompanying materials.

File consists of Kay Rex's short story Conversation Pieces as well as one item of correspondence regarding the publication of the story.

File consists of one copper printing plate of an unknown woman.

File consists of approximately twenty five items of correspondence between Kay Rex and others. Also includes accompanying materials, and correspondence to her brother and mother. Correspondents include:

• Clark, W.E.;
• Department of Labour;
• Dimbert, Eleanor;
• Doak, Buckingham, Pressley and Perlmutter;
• Hartwell, G.O.;
• Parker, H.L.;
• [?], Frances;
• [?], Maud.

File consists of twenty four items of correspondence between Kay Rex and others. Correspondents include:

• Casgrain, Therese
• Dennis, Laddie
• Evans-Ehricht, Mark & Barb
• Hauschildt, Elda
• Kiyoshik, Ramona
• Lenaham, Kim
• McCullum, Terry
• Purcell, Gillis
• Renwick, Cathy
• Rex, Beverly
• Scarse, Carole
• Taylor-Turpin, Pam
• [?], Flo,
• [?], Dorothea.

File consists of thirty five items of correspondence between Kay Rex and others. Correspondents include:

• Arnott, Edythe and Al
• Burcher, Dorothy
• Canadian Council
• Dennis, Laddie
• Doyle, Richard J.
• Edwards, Bess
• Evans-Ehricht, Mark and Barb
• Freedman, Sonya
• Gatenby, Greg
• Hamm[?], Rene
• Hauschildt, Elda
• Ludwig, Doris
• Mason, Madge B.
• Pearson, Shirley
• Rex, Sylvia
• Sawyer, Glad
• Stewart, William
• Tanzola Sorbara McClellan and Handler
• Taylor-Turpim, Pam
• Verbugge & Co.
• Warren, Isobel
• Wright, C.F.

File consists of forty items of correspondence between Kay Rex and others, including accompanying materials. Correspondents include:

• Barbens, Joan
• Boyd, Malcolm, Nora, Barbara, and Hugh
• Burcher, Dorothy
• Cot, Dorothea
• Edwards, Bess
• Evans-Ehricht, Barbara
• Hauschildt, Elda
• Hodgson, Dorothy
• Hollobon, Joan
• Kemp, Barbara
• Megarry, A.R.
• Padmore, Margaret
• Pearson, Shirley
• Rex, Beverly
• Rex, Kenneth
• Rex, Sylvia
• Wellesley Hospital
• [?], Betty
• [?], Etta
• [?], Fay
• [?], Jo
• [?], Margaret
• [?], May and Bill
• [?], Nick.

File consists of forty six items of correspondence between Kay Rex and others. Correspondents include:

• Bourassa, Robert
• Clark, Doris
• Edwards [?]
• Hamilton, Pat
• Kiyushk, Ramona
• MaKeigon, Pearl
• Montgomery, Malcolm
• Rex, Sylvia
• Rumble, Verne
• [R?], Mary
• Sawyer, Glad
• Sky, Ruth C.
• Smith, Sybil
• Taylor, Gaie
• Taylor-Turpin, Pam
• Tomlinson, Lynne
• Van Fleet, Janis K.
• Webster, Art
• Whalen, Barbara
• [?], Bev
• [?], Jesse
• [?], John and Ellea
• [?], Terry.

File consists of correspondence between Kay Rex and others relating to the publication of her book No Daughter of Mine. Also includes accompanying materials. Correspondents include:

• Blackwell, Florence King;
• Fraser, David;
• Nonnon, Mary Ann.

File consists of materials related to Kay Rex's submissions of short stories. Includes correspondence to and from Rex regarding her stories, clippings, materials on story writing, etc.

File consists of one diary for the year 1941 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1949 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1955 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1956 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1994 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1995 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1998 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1938 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1997 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of three diaries for the year 1933 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1939 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1945 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1957 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1983 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1993 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1995. Diary has some phone numbers at beginning, but no daily entries have been made.

File consists of one diary for the year 1996 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one small notebook used by Kay Rex as a diary.

File consists of one diary for the year 1936 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1942 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1944 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of one diary for the year 1977 with accompanying inserted materials.

File consists of materials accumulated by Kay Rex on the genealogy of her family. Includes photocopies, clippings, correspondence, biographies and photographs.

File consists of sixteen items of correspondence between Kay Rex and other members of her family, as well as between other family members. Correspondents include:

• Montgomery, Jennie
• Montgomery, Jim
• Rex, Beverly
• Rex, Grace Montgomery
• Rex, Kay
• Rex, Lionel
• [?], Mill (Aunt).

Also includes a folder of envelopes without correspondence.

Studio portrait of Adah Montgomery Forrest seen wearing a high-collared, lace-trimmed top.

File consists of materials relating to Kay Rex's freelance journalism and fiction work. Includes clippings, correspondence, photographs, and research for articles. Also includes the Spring 1961 edition of Echoes the magazine of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire which features the short story Cinderella.

File consists of materials accumulated by Kay Rex created by, and based on, her friends. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, etc. Correspondents include:

• Burcher, Dorothy
• Helferty, Dorothy
• Hodgson, Dorothy
• Hollobon, Joan
• Wright, C.F.
• Wysong, Peggy
• [?], Alixe
• [?], May
• [?], Joan and Suki.

File consists of materials relating to the genealogy of Kay Rex's family. Includes descendant sheets, a family tree, family group sheets, notes and photocopies.

File consists of materials relating to Kay Rex's membership in the Globe and Mail 25 year club. Includes invitations to the 25 year club dinner, dinner programmes, three photographs, and a newsletter from when Rex joined the club.

File consists of one guest book for the book launch of No Daughter of Mine by Kay Rex.

File consists of four photographs of Joan Hollobon. Three show her in her office, possibly at the Globe and Mail, and one shows her with a man in a hospital bed.

File consists of three ts. copies of Kay Rex's short story "I Saw the Old Goat Giving me the Eye".

File consists of one article taken from Saturday Night magazine titled In the "Glorious Days of Feminism" by Myrna Kostash.

File consists of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex relating to her work history. Includes staff lists, ephemera, pension information, correspondence, and written histories of her work life primarily at the Globe and Mail and also with CBC.

File consists of one audio cassette of Kay Rex reading from her book No Daughter of Mine.

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.

Materials related to Kay Rex. Includes driver's licences, health cards, membership cards for different organizations, a passport with validity from 1988 to 1993, business cards and two photographs of Rex.

File consists of one reproduction of a letter written by Nell Hall to her father from her time in custody at Holloway prison.

File consists of nineteen items of correspondence between Kay Rex and others, primarily members of the Canadian Government. Correspondents include:

• Akiwenzie, Chief Ralph
• Bertrand, Luc
• Birtch, Gilberte
• Bordeleau, Christine J.
• Bourassa, Robert
• Cameron, Christina
• Cameron, Don
• Filmon, Gary
• Foote, Judy M.
• Fraser, John
• Harcourt, Mike
• Hurtig, Mel
• Krackovic, Elvira
• Lobregt, Patricia D.
• McKenna, Frank
• Rae, Bob
• Romanow, Roy
• Valcourt, Bernard.

File consists of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex on the life of Mabel Driver who grew up on the Garden River Ojibway Reserve. Includes interviews with Driver, clippings, and a memoir.

File consists of one photograph of an unknown woman captioned "with love, Mary."

File consists of one drawing of a lighthouse on an island. The bottom right hand corner is signed F.K.M. (probably Francis Kathleen Montgomery).

File consists of one gold pin awarded to Kathleen Montgomery for 25 years of employment at UWO.

File consists of one silver box awarded to Kathleen Montgomery for 25 years of employment at UWO.

File consists of one YMCA certificate of membership for R.H. Montgomery, possible uncle of Kay Rex.

File consists of materials relating to the donation of personal affects by Kay Rex to the Woodstock Museum, RCAF Memorial Museum and the Royal Canadian Military Institute. Rex donated military materials of her father's, as well as personal affects and papers of other members of her family. Includes correspondence, donor forms, and lists of materials that were donated.

File consists of five negatives showing images of University of Waterloo, Mennonite women, Castle Kilbride and a park.

File consists of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex relating to her book No Daughter of Mine. Includes newspaper clippings, brochures, press releases, notes, correspondence, speeches and photocopies of excerpts of the book.

File consists of materials relating to the research and publication of Kay Rex's novel "No Daughter of Mine". Includes draft copies, notes, photocopies, etc.

File consists of fifty eight items of correspondence between Kay Rex and others created during the research for her book No Daughter of Mine. Correspondents include:

• Arnot, Terri
• Carter, Alixe
• Connolly, Maureen
• Craig, Jean
• Fraser, Catherine A.
• Hauschildt, Elda
• Hobbs, Margaert
• Hoover, Wendy
• Howard, Debby
• Hoy, Helen
• Jurisic, Wida
• Ludwig, Doris
• Moore, Ishbel
• Quapp, Roma
• Rojas, Leuten
• Sarsfield, Anne
• Silverman, Eliane Leslau
• Smith, Doreen
• Smith, Sylvia Watts
• St. Peter, Christine
• Warren, Isobel
• Woolfrey, Sandra
• Woelfle, Melba
• Wright, Frances.

File consists of fifty eight items of correspondence between Kay Rex and others created during the research for her book No Daughter of Mine. Correspondents include:

• Anderson, Doris H.
• Ayling, Vera
• Baptie, Sue M.
• Berton, Janet
• Berryman, Iris
• Brimmell, Helen
• Burt, Murray
• Butler, George E.
• Canada Council
• Cohen, Ralph
• Colpitts, Margaret
• CP Rail
• Crean, Susan
• Dennis, Deborah
• Dickson, Tim
• Duggan, Jean
• Eriks, Helen
• Fairley, Lillian
• Foster, Sheila
• Grant, R.A.
• Haley, Margaret
• Harrington, Lynn
• Hau, Barb
• Jardine, Rose Ducie
• Jones, Dave
• Lapp, Margaret
• Major, Marjorie
• Malik, Amita
• McClelland, Jack
• Macham, Dorothy
• Pattinson, Mary
• Poole, David
• Reid, Bernie
• Riis, Margaret
• Rojas, Leuten
• Romani, Connie
• Rowe, Kaye
• Ruth Hammond Scholarship Fund
• Sklove, Dora
• Smith, Joan
• Smith, Sybil
• Tomlinson, Lynne
• Tupper, Dorothy
• Turcotte, Dorothy
• Turcotte, Gerry
• Wallace, Pat
• Watt, Ellen
• Woolfrey, Sandra;

File consists of materials created and accumulated by Key Rex during research for her book No Daughter of Mine. Includes notes, photocopies, speeches, etc.

File consists of one stenograph book with notes on the Canadian Women's Press Club created during the research for Kay Rex's book No Daughter of Mine.

File consists of one photograph album (some photos have been removed) showing photographs of Kay Rex, friends and family at school, on vacation, and at home. Also includes photographs of Niagara Falls, Dublin, and Paris (Ontario) and of a float plane.

File consists of one photograph album belonging to Kay Rex. Includes photographs of Rex, family, friends, military exercises, a beach, etc. Some photographs have come unstuck from the album.

File consists of one photograph album belonging to Kay Rex. Also includes photographs inserted into the front of the album at a later date. Photographs include images of Kay's friends and family and activities.

File consists of forty four photographs showing relatives and friends of Kay Rex. Photographs show Rex's time at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), vacations, pets, family members and friends. Also includes two pages taken from a photograph album showing friends and events at UWO.

Most people are unidentified with the exception of:

• Rex, Kay
• Edwards, Bess
• Burrows, Marjorie
• Boyd, Barbara
• Boyd, Hugh
• Montgomery, Frederick
• Barss, Rita
• Fetherstone, May
• Mekenacher, Dorothy
• Wright, Charles Austin

File consists of posthumously created materials regarding Kay Rex. Includes compiled biographies, obituaries, funerary speeches and correspondence.

File consists of one ms. copy of the poem "Presbyterian Hell" by Vincent Starrett. The poem begins with the inscription "This is a poem I discovered and thought you would enjoy it. Aunt Mill and Uncle Ed ought to see it." The poem is in Kay Rex's hand.

File consists of one hand written recipe book, bound with string. Includes recipes from family and friends.

File consists of recipes created and accumulated by Kay Rex. Some recipes are taken from publications, or recipe cards, others were handwritten by Rex or family members. Also includes a cookbook written by the University of Waterloo student wives club.

File consists of one photograph of Charles Austin Wright, misidentified as Charles Austin Reilly. Identification from verso.

File consists of one sound disc. Side a features Reminiscences of an English Militant : Mrs. Nell Hall-Humpherson and side b features Theresa: An Eskimo Woman Talks of Her Life.

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.

File consists of one photograph of Alfred Lionel Rex, father of Kay Rex. Identification from verso.

Photograph of Kay Rex at the age of two years and nine months seen seated outdoors on a wooden chair and looking toward camera with left hand on lap.

File consists of six photographs of Kay Rex from a photograph shoot for her book. Also includes a sheet of contact prints and two negatives.

File consists of one portrait photograph of Kay Rex.

File consists of one portrait and two contact sheets of portraits, of Kay Rex by Brian Miller. Also includes one item of correspondence from the photographer, and two brief biographies on Rex.

Photograph of Kay Rex as a child seated at a desk with arms crossed and looking at camera.

File consists of one photograph of Kay Rex from her time working for the Globe and Mail.

File consists of thirty two snapshots showing Kay Rex with family, friends, pets, and on vacation.

File consists of two photographs of Kay Rex and Joan Hollobon.

File consists of one photograph showing Kay Rex with three men at the Canadian Press office in Ottawa. The four are shown working at desks with typewriters.