Archives Catalogue

Photocopies of newspaper clippings with notes from Kim Foote

MS-2-646, Box 11, Folder 5
File
[197-?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A list of activities

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 68
File
1990

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Across Canada, 1934

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 18
File
[200-?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Teaching agreement and related materials

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 14, Folder 1
File
1933, [after 1941]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains Joyce Barkhouse's teaching agreement from 1933 for the Lower Canada school section. Materials also include her teacher's professional card and a list of her teaching jobs written on an envelope.

Guestbook for Drumlin Hills residence

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 15, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
2008-2011

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains one guestbook for Joyce Barkhouse's residence in Drumlin Hills. Visitors include Janet, Marian, and Patsy. Most visitors wrote a small message, and some were recorded by Barkhouse.

Photograph of Joyce Barkhouse's sisters' weddings

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

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains one photograph of the "double wedding" of both of Barkhouse's sisters. The photograph depicts four couples posed together, with several other people off in the distance.

Photographs with family and friends, including vacations

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 15, Folder 10
File
1980-1988

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains various photographs belonging to Joyce Barkhouse depicting her family (including Margaret Atwood), friends, and travels. These include a trip to Oberammergau in 1980 with Mary Wade, Mildred Smith, and Frances Brown, as well as trips to London and Newfoundland. Some of the photographs are scanned onto black and white sheet of paper in batches, while others are originals.

Photographs with family and friends, including 75th birthday and vacations

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 15, Folder 11
File
1987-1988

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains various photographs belonging to Joyce Barkhouse depicting her family, friends, and travels. These include trips to Barbados, Florida, Ontario, Toronto, Lunenberg, Yarmouth, Harbourville, and the Prince George Hotel in Halifax, as well as Barkhouse's 75th birthday party.

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.

Correspondence from Janet Barkhouse to Margaret Atwood

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 16, Folder 10
File
[1998-2000]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains correspondence from Janet Barkhouse (Joyce's daughter) to Margaret Atwood, who she called "Aunt M." Materials also include one letter from Joyce to an unknown recipient ("darling").

Photographs of Joyce Barkhouse's paternal grandparents

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 3
File
[18--?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two photographs of Joyce Barkhouse's paternal grandparents, William Henry Killam and Amanda W(?) Killam. Both are taken portrait style.

Photograph of Margaret Atwood

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 7
File
[after 1939]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains one photograph of a young Margaret Atwood, taken portrait style.

Photograph fragment of Milton Joseph Barkhouse as a young man

MS-2-646.2014-020, Box 12, Folder 20
File
[1930?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Photograph of Maria, a child tutored by Joyce Barkhouse in the 1960s

MS-2-646.2014-020, Box 12, Folder 20
File
[196-?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Wall calendar annotated with appointments

MS-2-646.2014-020, Box 21, Folder 2
File
2011

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Photograph of Margaret, Kay, and Joyce

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 8
File
1990

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains a photograph of Joyce Barkhouse with her sisters, Margaret and Kay.

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings and correspondence

MS-2-646, Box 6, Folder 24
File
1967-1990

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

Joyce Barkhouse : George Dawson interview

MS-2-646, Box 11, Folder 20
File
[1975?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A newspaper clipping regarding the launch of The Lorenzen Collection

MS-2-646, Box 5, Folder 7
File
[198-?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Newspaper clippings regarding Abraham Gesner

MS-2-646, Box 2, Folder 9
File
1981

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Book reviews for The Pit Pony and A Name for Himself: A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 12
File
1987-2006

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A clipping from the NSSLA Bulletin containing a letter from Barkhouse

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 25
File
1988

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Reviews of a number of works

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 30
File
1988-2004

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A report of Prince Edward Island Book Tour, and related materials

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 80
File
1989-1991

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Reviews of a number of works

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 19
File
1989-1997

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Readings by Canadian Children's Writers at the Halfax Regional Library : [press release]

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 79
File
[199-?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A copy of Natural Heritage containing reviews of a number of Barkhouse's book

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 61
File
1993

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Correspondence and biographical information regarding a submission to Writing Stories, Making Pictures

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 58
File
1994

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A copy of CANSCAIP News containing a feature on Barkhouse

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 57
File
1997-1998

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Tell Me a Story exhibit article and other materials

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 13, Folder 20
File
[after 2007]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains and article by Wendy Elliott of the King's County Register regarding the "Tell Me a Story" exhibit featuring Joyce Barkhouse's writing among other local authors. File also contains a list of people invited to a birthday.

Newspaper review, press release and Joyce Barkhouse's speech regarding Smallest rabbit

MS-2-646.2014-020, Box 12, Folder 10
File
1997

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Newspaper clippings regarding Joyce Barkhouse's books

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 18, Folder 1
File
1969-1993

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File also contains the program for the presentation of the first Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature to Joyce Barkhouse for her book Pit Pony, and newspaper articles about her niece Margaret Atwood.

Press releases for writing by Joyce Barkhouse and family

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 18, Folder 4
File
1991-1998

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

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.

Pit Pony movie ticket

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 18, Folder 9
File
November 30, 1997

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File consists of ticket No. 001 for the movie of the Pit Pony at Oxford Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia on Sunday, November 30, 1997. The ticket was framed and presented to Joyce Barkhouse.

A typescript draft of A Brief History of Woodville