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Joyce Barkhouse fonds
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Teaching license and school register for Joyce Barkhouse

File contains two Grade 2 class registers with lists of students taught by Joyce Killam at Liverpool School Section No. 8 in Queens County, Nova Scotia. The file also contains a copy of her teacher's license, originally issued in 1937 and re-issued in 1969 by the Department of Education, Nova Scotia.

Smallest Rabbit and related documents and photographs

File contains a copy of "Smallest Rabbit" by Joyce Barkhouse and illustrated by Barbara Martin, published by Lancelot Press, along with correspondence regarding the book and photographs of Barkhouse and Martin with the book. The file also contains a copy of Barkhouse's speech about the book, a partial draft, and order form.

Short Stories of Joyce Barkhouse

Series contains short stories, both published and unpublished. The types of records included here are drafts, clippings of published articles, copies of publications containing short stories, and related correspondence, research, photographs, and notes.

Professional correspondence

Subseries contains correspondence with publishers, editors, associations, colleagues, and others regarding Joyce Barkhouse's professional writing career.

Press releases for writing by Joyce Barkhouse and family

File contains clippings of articles about the announcement of the Pit Pony television series; plays by Joyce Barkhouse and Margaret Atwood performed by the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia; an article by Kathleen Hickey (granddaughter); a press release on a course on Global History by Murray Barkhouse; and a copy of a letter from Amy (Helene Bennet's granddaughter) to the CBC Radio program Crosswords. The file also contains a letter from Maureen E. Lipkewich of the Mining Association of British Columbia to Joyce Barkhouse about the use of her novel Pit Pony in the British Columbia curriculum, and a letter from Joyce to her cousins with copies of newspaper articles about a house in Concord, a symposium in children's literature at Acadia University that she was involved in, and Anne Perry.

Letters from students regarding Pit Pony

File contains letters regarding Pit Pony from students at A.G. Baillie Memorial School (grade 5, January 2011) in New Glasgow, St. Joseph Elementary School (grade 5, 2010) in Bridgewater, and Salem Elementary School (2008) in Sackville, New Brunswick. File also contains one photograph with the grade 5 class of A.G. Baillie Memorial School.

Letters from Joyce's family

File contains personal correspondence from Joyce's family. The materials include letters from Chris and Cyril, Shirley and Gerard, Chuck Morton, and Edith, and are mostly year-end updates sent to everybody in the family. Also includes one card featuring the face of a cat from Gardy (?).

Letters from Joyce Barkhouse to her sister and Margaret Atwood

  • MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 16, Folder 2
  • File
  • 1976-2000 [predominant 1998-2000]

    • Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains letters written by Joyce Barkhouse to her sister and Margaret Atwood. Many of the letters are written from Harbourville. Materials also include information about the Killam family and the Mayflower, as well as newspaper clippings and an information sheet on saving Harbourville.
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