For eight years, she was on the staff of the Dominion Press Clipping Bureau, the Toronto Daily News, assistant editor of the Canadian Courier, and with the Macmillan Company of Canada.

[1][2] During 1904, she made an extended journey on foot through the south and west of Ireland and in England gathering at first hand a great accumulation of Irish folklore.

[3] The Toronto Globe in announcing her death paid the following tribute to her personality and work:—"To readers of poetry the one who is gone will be always Norah Holland, the weaver of exquisite verse.

A lover of children, a friend of dumb animals, and a staunch, stimulating comrade to numerous wayfarers who crossed her path, she touched life at many points and wrote inspiringly of its different phases.

Her two books of verse, Spunyarn and Spindrift and When Half Gods Go, remain as monuments to her genius, and fascinating fairy stories proclaim her the friend of little children and a firm believer in that charming world of fancy unknown to the materialist.”.