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REX, Kay

1997-0295

Enregistrement sonore

1 of 1

1987-03-11

Kay Rex (Interviewer)

Oral history interview with Florence Bird (pen name Anne Francis), senator, journalist, broadcaster, author and former member of the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC), conducted by veteran journalist Kay Rex during the research phase of her publication "No Daughter of Mine : The Women and History of the Canadian Women's Press Club 1904-1971". In her recollections about her life and the history of the CWPC, Bird talks about her family background and her relationship with husband and journalist John Bird; the early years of her writing and broadcasting career with the CBC; her involvement with the Winnipeg and Ottawa CWPC branches with anecdotes about some of the members, namely Miriam Green Ellis, E. Cora Hinds, Charlotte Whitton, and Elizabeth Long; and her experience with the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to which she was appointed chairperson in 1967.

English

39

Libre

A1 2007-03-0024

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions : no interviewee restrictions~Original copyright owner: Kay Rex.~Kay Rex died at Toronto 10 July 2006.~Copyright now rests with her estate (possibly her brother, Kenneth Rex of Toronto, or Joan Hollobon of Toronto.