File contains four photographs taken by Peter Dykhuis of the sculpture "20th Century Student" by Reg Dockrill. The sculpture was erected on the corner of University Avenue and Seymour Street in 1968 and removed in 2012 after an engineering report concluded that the six-metre-high steel sculpture had corroded on the inside and was “structurally damaged beyond repair."
File contains typescript and handwritten drafts of short stories, including "Doctor's Daughter," "The Excursion," "For Marian" (eulogy for Marian Lacey), "Adventures in an Automobile," "The Indian Connection," and "Song of the Brook." The file also contains a poem by Joyce Barkhouse, "After School"; a story written by her nephew David, entitled "Grandfather 15 June 09"; and some correspondence regarding Marian Lacey and Margaret Atwood (nee Killam). A photograph of eight children (Keith Porter, Lorna, Joyce, Fred, Bernie, Boyd Burgess, Kay, and Margaret) at a culvert on the North Mountain Railway is also included.
File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir performing at the "Halifax for Haiti" hurricane relief benefit concert at Halifax Metro Centre.
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.
File contains photographs of the interior and exterior of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College library that was built in 1982, and 1983 library staff and librarians. There are also portraits of past librarians and students. From 1913-1939 the NSAC library collection was housed on bookshelves of a small room adjacent to the office of the Professor of English. From 1939-1968 Principal Lyman Chapman improved the library arrangements by rearranging space previously occupied by the janitor’s quarters on the top floor of the administrative building, later named Cumming Hall; they provided tables, newspapers, magazines, books, reference books and textbooks. Between 1968-1982 the library was housed in the Cox Institute, the library was given space to the west of the stairwell on the lower level. The library added a microfiche reader during this time. In the 1980s a new building for library services became the first priority when the degree program was approved. Official opening of the new library was graduation day May 1983, and the library was named the MacRae library in 1990.
File contains award letter, program and related materials of the Governor General's Literary Award, held at the Rideau Hall in Ottawa on December 10th, 2008. File also contains printed photographs of Catherine at the Library of Parliament and the 2008 Governor General's Award winners. Catherine Banks won Governor General's Award for English-language Drama for her play Bone Cage.
The individuals in these photographs are former CO's of the H.M.C.S. SCOTIAN: Photo 1 = Rear row left to right : Cdr. John MacInnes; Cdr Marjorie Hickey; Capt Craig Walkington; Capt. McLeod; Capt. David Edmonds; Capt. Hal Davies; Cdr. Mike Brownlow. Front Row Left to Right : Capt. John Stuart; Cdr. Rollie Marshal; Lt.Cdr. Richard Oland; Commodore Bruce S. C. Oland; Capt. Dan Brownlow and Cdr. Tony Cormier. Photo 2 = Lt.Cdr. Richard H. Oland; Commodore Bruce S.C. Oland; Capt. Dan Brownlow and Mike Brownlow. Both father and son Oland commanded the H.C.M.S. SCOTIAN.
File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert, "Share the Dream: A Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." The concert took place on January 19, 2008 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Photographs feature Kathy Grant, Karen Grant, and others.
File contains photographs of Jeremiah Sparks performing as Louis Armstrong in Eastern Front Theatre's production of "The Satchmo Suite" in 2008. The play was written by Hans Böggild and Doug Innis.
File includes correspondence, licensing and royalty information, a draft of the book with illustrations, a published copy of the book, and the publishing agreement with Lorimer for the children's book Anna's Pet by Joyce Barkhouse and Margaret Atwood. The file also has two photographs from a puppet adaptation of Anna's Pets by Mermaid Theatre, directed by Fred Thury and designed by Tom Miller. Two other stories by Margaret Atwood, "Flying Rabbits and their Ancestors" and "Silent Sam and the Singing Sausage from Saturn" are also included.
File consists of the hand-written speech of Budge Wilson given at the book launch for Before Green Gables, in February 2008. Includes three photographs taken at the event.
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."
File contains photographs of buildings and structures on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus including silos, barns, water towers, and the poultry yard and poultry supply house building.
File contains photographs of buildings and structures on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus including silos, barns, water towers, the stock judging pavilion, and the poultry supply house building.
File contains personal correspondence with Margaret Atwood, Joyce's children, and her mother and father. The correspondence includes writing from various persons (including Atwood and Barkhouse), some before they were published and some that were not published.
