Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Joan Hollobon (1920). Includes handwritten notes about Hollobon (some of them contain information about Kay Rex), newspaper clipping of articles contextualizing or authored by Hollobon, database searches about Hollobon, and a draft of Hollobon’s chapter in Newsgirls.
Contains a published edition of Bungle : truce and trouble by Joan Hollobon, a reprint of some of the articles by Hollobon to give context to the Medicare crisis in Saskatchewan in 1962, published by the Globe and Mail in 1962.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Joan Hollobon. Includes a notebook titled “Joan Hollobon” with MacKinnon’s handwritten notes regarding Hollobon. Some notes include biographical information about Kay Rex. Also contains printed information about the Hollobon Award.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Kay Rex and her book No daughter of mine: the women and history of the Canadian Women's Press Club. Includes notes about Rex, invitations to book events for Rex’s book, newspaper clippings of articles contextualizing Rex, as well as Rex’s obituary in the Globe and Mail (2006), and a photograph of Rex by Brian Willer. Lastly, contains a draft of Rex’s chapter in Newsgirls.

Draft of Newsgirls created between 1997 and 1998 with handwritten notes and corrections. Draft title is “Newsgirls (working title) : Pre-feminism in print journalism” by Donna Jean MacKinnon and Catherine Smyth. Includes a handwritten note by MacKinnon about the draft, and has chapters on Stasia Evasuk, Kay Kritzwiser, Dorothy Howarth, Jeannine Locke, Olive Dickason, June Callwood, Simma Holt, Elizabeth Dingman, Ruth Hammond, Kay Rex, Doris Anderson, Marjorie Earl, Angela Burke, Marilyn Dunlop, Dusty Vineberg, Enid Nemy, Joan Sutton Strauss, Yvonne Crittenden, Maureen Keller, Michele Landsberg, Heather Robertson, and Catherine Ford.

Draft of Newsgirls created between 1997 and 1998 with handwritten notes and corrections. Draft title is “Newsgirls (working title) : Pre-feminism in print journalism” by Donna Jean MacKinnon. Draft includes chapters on Stasia Evasuk, Kay Kritzwiser, Dorothy Howarth, Jeannine Locke, Olive Dickason, June Callwood, Simma Holt, Elizabeth Dingman, Ruth Hammond, Kay Rex, Doris Anderson, Marjorie Earl, Angela Burke, Marilyn Dunlop, Dusty Vineberg, Enid Nemy, Joan Sutton Strauss, Yvonne Crittenden, Maureen Keller, Michele Landsberg, Heather Robertson, and Catherine Ford.

Draft of Newsgirls created between 1997 and 1998 with handwritten notes and corrections. Draft title is “Newsgirls (working title) : Pre-feminism in print journalism” by Donna Jean MacKinnon. Draft includes chapters on Kay Kritzwiser, Dorothy Howarth, Marjorie Earl, Olive Dickason, June Callwood, Simma Holt, Elizabeth Dingman, Stasia Evasuk, Ruth Hammond, Kay Rex, Angela Burke, Marilyn Dunlop, Maureen Keller, Yvonne Crittenden, Joan Sutton Strauss, Valerie Gibson, Dusty Vineberg, Michele Landsberg, and Catherine Ford.

Draft of Newsgirls created in March 1998 with handwritten notes and corrections. Draft title is “Newsgirls (working title) : Pre-feminism in print journalism” by Donna Jean MacKinnon. Draft includes chapters on Kay Kritzwiser, Dorothy Howarth, Marjorie Earl, Olive Dickason, June Callwood, Simma Holt, Elizabeth Dingman, Stasia Evasuk, Ruth Hammond, Kay Rex, Angela Burke, Marilyn Dunlop, Maureen Keller, Yvonne Crittenden, Joan Sutton Strauss, Valerie Gibson, Dusty Vineberg, Michele Landsberg, and Catherine Ford. Also contains business card Sharon Crawford (writer and editor).

Draft of Newsgirls by Donna Jean MacKinnon and Catherine Smyth with corrections made in February 1998. Draft includes chapters on Kay Kritzwiser, Dorothy Howarth, Marjorie Earl, Olive Dickason, June Callwood, Simma Holt, Elizabeth Dingman, Stasia Evasuk, Ruth Hammond, Kay Rex, Angela Burke, Marilyn Dunlop, Maureen Keller, Yvonne Crittenden, Joan Sutton Straus, Valerie Gibson, Dusty Vineberg, Michele Landsberg, Catherine Ford. Also contains a separate chapter on Angela Burke from February 3, 1998.

Draft of Newsgirls by Donna Jean MacKinnon and Catherine Smyth. Draft includes chapters on Dorothy Howarth, Jeannine Locke, Olive Dickason, June Callwood, Simma Holt, Elizabeth Dingman, Ruth Hammond, Kay Rex, Doris Anderson, Marjorie Earl, Angela Burke, Marilyn Dunlop, Dusty Vineberg, Enid Nemy, Joan Sutton Straus, Yvonne Crittenden, Michele Landsberg, Heather Robertson, and Catherine Ford. Also contains correspondence between Donna Jean MacKinnon and Luke Gagliardi (York University) about the edition of Newsgirls.

Draft chapters of Newsgirls for Angela Burke, Dorothy Howarth, Ruth Hammond, June Callwood, Kay Kritzwiser, Kay Rex, Maureen Keller, Michele Landsberg, Olive Dickason, Simma Holt, Stasia Evasuk, Dusty Vineberg, Yvonne Crittenden, Elizabeth Dingman, and Marilyn Dunlop. Also contains introduction and proposal.

Notes created by Donna Jean MacKinnon as part of her research for Newsgirls. Includes correspondence with publishers as well as a draft of Newsgirls with summaries on Kay Kritzwiser, Dorothy Howarth, Marjorie Earl, Olive Dickason, June Callwood, Simma Hold, Elizabeth Dingman, Stasia Evasuk, Ruth Hammond, Kay Rex, Angela Burke, Marilyn Dunlop, Maureen Keller, Yvonne Crittenden, Joan Sutton Straus, Valerie Gibson, Dusty Vineberg, Michele Landsberg, Catherine Ford, Enid Nemy, and Heather Robertson.