Archives Catalogue

File contains correspondence regarding two of Joyce's books, Pit Pony and Abraham Gesner. Materials also include two scanned photographs, a series agreement, and a blank termination form.

Correspondence regarding A Name for Himself: A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 13, Folder 14
File
January 28, 2009

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two pages of correspondence from an unknown sender regarding Joyce's book "A Name for Himself: A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall". Each page has only a few paragraphs or sentences, and discusses Raddall's family situations.

Correspondence regarding The Secret of Silk

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 13, Folder 27
File
1959

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains correspondence related to Barkhouse's short story "The Secret of Silk," which was originally "Unimportant Princess" and renamed for OWL magazine. Materials also contain the first page of the story.

Correspondence with the Dundurn Group regarding royalties and termination agreement

MS-2-646.2018-013, Box 19, Folder 10
File
2005-2010

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains correspondence regarding Joyce Barkhouse's books The Little Giant, George Dawson and A Name for Himself, Biography of Thomas Raddall. The file also includes royalty statements for both books, a termination agreement, and three copies of a description of The Little Giant, George Dawson.

Correspondence with Gage Publishing regarding an anthology of short stories

MS-2-646, Box 5, Folder 8
File
1981

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Personal documents and photographs of Joyce Barkhouse

Series
[1860-1899], 1906-2012

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Series contains personal documents that are generally unrelated to Joyce Barkhouse's professional career as a writer. The types of records included here are family photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts written by other family members. The series also contains records relating to Barkhouse's early career as a teacher.

Photographs of Joyce Barkhouse

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 33
File
1942-1973

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A letter certifying participation in a National Council of Teachers of English program, a note confirming attendance at UKRA 6th Annual Congress, and explanatory notes from Barkhouse

MS-2-646, Box 11, Folder 3
File
1969

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Song of Hiawatha

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 13, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
[before 1920]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Item consists of one book titled "Song of Hiawatha" owned by Joyce as a child and later read to her children. The book is small and bound in maroon leather.

Photograph of Dr. Harold Edwin Killam

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 15, Folder 7
File
1906

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains one photograph of Dr. Harold Edwin Killam, Joyce Barkhouse's father, in his home office. Killam was involved with Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine.

Photographs of Joyce Barkhouse with others

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 15, Folder 12
File
[after 1913]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains four photographs of Joyce Barkhouse with other people. One photograph is taken when she was younger, and is posing with four other people around her age. The others feature Barkhouse as an older woman, posing with other people of similar ages outside, on a deck, or in the woods with pails.

Photograph of schoolchildren taught by Harold Edwin Killam

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 2
File
[1894?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains one mounted photograph of schoolchildren taught by H.E. (Harold Edwin) Killam (1878-1957) when he was 16 years old. Killam is seated in the centre of the photograph. The children of varying ages are posed for a group shot, and the photograph is taken outside.

Photographs of Joyce Barkhouse's family

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 4
File
1946-1950

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two photographs of Joyce Barkhouse's family. One is in the form of a Christmas card from 1946, and depicts Joyce's children Janet and Murray standing outside with the caption "Love & best wishes from Joyce & Milton." The other depicts Joyce and her husband and children along with her father, pictured standing outside of a house.

Photographs of Joyce Barkhouse's family

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 5
File
[after 1913], 1992

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains four photographs of Joyce Barkhouse's family, including her sisters, cousins, children, grandchildren, great-niece, nephew, and a house.

Photograph of Murray Barkhouse

MS-2-646.2014-020, Box 12, Folder 20
File
1974

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Photographs of Susan Kerslake, Joyce Barkhouse, Budge Wilson, Jane Buss, and Norene Smiley

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 15
File
[199-?] - [200-?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two photographs, one of Norene Smiley, Jane Buss, Joyce Barkhouse, and Susan Kerslake at a residence on Elm Street in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, and the other of Susan Kerslake, Joyce Barkhouse, Budge Wilson, and Jane Buss at a residence on Tower Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Public Schools of Nova Scotia teacher's licenses

MS-2-646.2017-044, OS Box 9, Folder 7
File
1932-1933

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two teaching licenses for Joyce Carman Killam for receiving professional diplomas to teach Grade 11 and Grade 12 classes, respectively.

Assorted documents and photographs of Joyce Barkhouse

MS-2-646.2018-013, Box 20, Folder 12
File
1971-2007

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains articles by Joyce Barkhouse (and others) for the Wesley Knox United Church, including "For Mothers and Others"; the announcements of the Thomas H. Raddall endowment at Dalhousie University Libraries; family postcards; photographs of Joyce Barkhouse; correspondence; printouts of Google search results for Joyce Barkhouse; magazines featuring her writing (including 10 "Canadian Boy" magazines with installments of her story "Purple Cloak"); programs from the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature (1991); newspaper clippings; Janet Barkhouse's nomination of her mother for the Order of Nova Scotia; and a draft of "Doctor's Daughter."

A schedule for a National Book Festival school visit