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Joyce Barkhouse fonds File
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Joyce's early years

Folder contains a handwritten description of Joyce Barkhouse's early years, written by her.

Killam family tree information

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.

Kosenge Eats an Egg

File contains a short story written by Joyce Barkhouse and published in The Explorer and The Young Soldier and Crusader.

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.

Letters from Joyce Barkhouse to her sister and Margaret Atwood

  • MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 16, Folder 6
  • File
  • January 8, 2004 - December 22, 2004

    • Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains letters written by Joyce Barkhouse to her sister and Margaret Atwood, detailing her personal life in 2004. Materials also include a newspaper clipping for the Clyde River bridge in Shelburne, and a biography of Barkhouse from the Sable Island Green Horse Society.

Letters from Joyce Barkhouse to her sister and Margaret Atwood

  • MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 16, Folder 7
  • File
  • January 5, 2005 - December 23, 2005

    • Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains letters written by Joyce Barkhouse to her sister and Margaret Atwood, detailing her personal life in 2005. Materials also include newspaper clippings and one photograph of two small children, possibly great-grandchildren almost-three-year-old Karlee and almost-eight-month-old Jonas.

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 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.

Literary awards received by Joyce Barkhouse

File contains eight certificates given to Joyce Barkhouse from Government House, Halifax, Nova Scotia (on her 90th birthday); South Shore Literary Club (Lifetime Achievement Award); Nova Scotia Library Association (Ann Connor-Brimer Award); Federation of Nova Scotian Heritage (Dr. Phyllis R. Blakeley Lifetime Achievement Award); Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia (Honourary Life Member and the creation of the Joyce Barkhouse Award); Nova Scotia Children's Literature Roundtable (for contributions to children's literature); Canadian Authors Association (Marianna Dempster Memorial Award); and the Cultural Federation of Nova Scotia (Cultural Life Award).

Mountain Magic, Memories as a Volunteer in Rural Bolivia 1996-1998, and other writing

File contains a chapter layout with descriptions for "Mountain Magic, Memories as a Volunteer in Rural Bolivia 1996-1998". Other materials include a CV for an unknown person, and several other pieces of writing, including "Run", Chapter 15 of "The Lords of the Night", and "All of us are better because we were loved" from Allistair MacLeod.

My Aunt Sadie

File contains a short story by Joyce Barkhouse, published in Hi-Venture.
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