Members of the collective that produced Herstory posing informally indoors: (l to r) Mona Holmlund, Gail Youngberg, Cheryl Avery, Mary Gilliland, Shirley Martin, Teresa Harley, Deanna Herman, and Patti Williams.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 9 Jan. 1998 issue of OCN.

Bio/Historical Note: In 1973, five Saskatoon women - June Bantjes, Beth Foster, Gwen Gray, Colleen Pollreis, and Erin Shoemaker - applied for and received an Opportunities For Youth grant. With little background in either research or women's history, they produced and published Herstory: The Canadian Women's Calendar, a calendar documenting the history and achievements of Canadian women. Since then, 50 women have at some time been members of the Saskatoon Women's Calendar Collective; the calendar's 20th edition was published in 1995. When the Collective started, the field of women's history was relatively new: Herstory quickly became, and has remained, a Canadian best-seller, despite a two year hiatus (1983-1984) when one publisher's failure demanded a lengthy search for a new publisher. Each calendar contains profiles of individual women or women's groups, essays on issues, or highlights the work of an author or artist. The collective planned to rename and reform, launching as a new but familiar entity in 2016.