The Media Club of Canada was a professional organization of Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 journalists, active from 1904 to the early 1990s. Originally founded as the Canadian Women's Press Club

Canadian Women's Press Club

Canadian Women's Press Club was founded in 1904, the year that the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was held in St. Louis, Missouri. In June of that year, journalist and feminist Margaret Graham of Ottawa went to see Col. George Ham, the publicity agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Graham went...

 and open only to women, early members of the group included Kit Coleman

Kit Coleman

"Kit Coleman" was the nom de plume of the Canadian newspaper columnist Kathleen Blake Coleman. The Irish-born Coleman was the world's first accredited female war correspondent, covering the Spanish-American War for the Toronto Mail in 1898...

, Nellie McClung

Nellie McClung

Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney , was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s...

, Emily Murphy

Emily Murphy

Emily Murphy was a Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first woman magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire...

and Helen MacGill.

The organization adopted the Media Club of Canada name in 1971 when it opened its membership to men as well.

The organization's activities included an annual awards presentation for the best work in journalism by its members.

Non-fiction author Erna Paris produced a radio documentary on their work.

External links

• Media Club of Canada