Archives Catalogue

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."

Fortress Louisbourg

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 20
File
1971

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains an article written by Joyce Barkhouse and published in The Advertiser.

A typescript draft of The Mermaid and The Sea Shell

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 47
File
[1971]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Correspondence with Margaret Atwood and other family

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 13, Folder 24
File
1972-2011

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains correspondence from Margaret Atwood and other assorted family members, including Ralph and Harold. Materials also include cards and an order of service and memorial description for Carl E. Atwood.

Correspondence with Clarke, Irwin and Company Limited and others regarding publication of George Dawson: The Little Giant, and other materials

MS-2-646, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1972-1992

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Killam family tree information

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 16, Folder 9
File
1993, [after 1972]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains information on the Killam family tree (Joyce Barkhouse's family). The information dates back to 1846 with James Hall White, who married Aimee Silver Killam.

The Secrets of Sable

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 35
File
1973

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains an article written by Joyce Barkhouse and published in the Canadian Frontier.

Correspondence with Irwin Publishing and others regarding A Name for Himself: A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall

MS-2-646, Box 4, Folder 7
File
1973-1992

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of the For Mothers and Others column from The Kentville Register

MS-2-646, Box 3, Folder 9
File
1973

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A newspaper clippings regarding a school visit

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 70
File
1973

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Treasures of Fortress Louisbourg, research materials, and related correspondence

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 37
File
[1973?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains an article written by Joyce Barkhouse and published in the Canadian Treasure.

A scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of the For Mothers and Others column from The Kentville Register

MS-2-646, Box 3, Folder 10
File
1974

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Drafts of sections of George Dawson: The Little Giant, with notes and revisions

MS-2-646, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1974

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Photograph of Murray Barkhouse

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

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A letter to the editor of The Pictou Advocate

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 28
File
1974

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Various newspaper clippings

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 14, Folder 12
File
1974-2012

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains various newspaper clippings regarding Joyce Barkhouse. Topics include her Order of Canada membership, school visits, George Dawson, and her obituary. Some of the clippings include photographs of Barkhouse.

Correspondence from Janet Lunn

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 13, Folder 17
File
1975-2009

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains correspondence from Janet Lunn, including both handwritten and typed letters. File also includes a lecture for the Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture.

Correspondence with Janet Barkhouse

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 12
File
1975, 1977, 2008

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains a letter to Janet Barkhouse from her mother, Joyce Barkhouse, which mentions, among other things, her story "Connie Catches a Fish." The file also contains a story about Joyce's childhood, typed by Janet; a newspaper clipping about Joyce's brother Fred Killam's retirement from the family orchard at Woodville; a copy of an obituary for Gardy Killam (Fred's wife, d. 2008); and a copy of a poem written for Dr. H.E. Killam for his 53rd birthday.

Joyce Barkhouse : George Dawson interview