Archives Catalogue

Letter from Edna Ferber to Ellen Ballon, Sally Ryan, and Ralph Gustafson

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 16
File
1947

File contains a letter from Edna Ferber in response to a birthday telegram sent by Ellen Ballon, Sally Ryan, and Ralph Gustafson of High Perch Farm, Georgetown, Connecticut.

Ferber, Edna

William Somerset Maugham : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 19
File
1946

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

William Somerset Maugham : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 7
File
[1940 - 1965]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

A description of the day Joyce Barkhouse was born

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 13, Folder 18
File
[after 1913]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains the beginning of a story about the day that Joyce was born. It describes the spring conditions and her nursery in her house.

Descriptions of Joyce Barkhouse's mother and other family

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 14, Folder 8
File
[after 1913], 2008

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains descriptions of Joyce Barkhouse's family and mother, written by her. Materials contain several written works about her mother and her mother's ancestors (Webster), a tribue to her mother, a glimpse of her mother's diary from 1899, age 16 (typed), as well as a story of Barkhouse's childhood titled "The Girls."

Descriptions of Joyce Barkhouse's early life and school days

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 14, Folder 7
File
[after 1913], 2000

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains descriptions of Joyce Barkhouse's early life and school days, written by her. Materials also contain a letter to her grandchildren and one newspaper article featuring the "Man About News" column by Alex Nickerson, a Dalhousie graduate.

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.

The second Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature : [program]

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 18, Folder 10
File
October 30, 1992

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains a program for the awards presentation, held at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The award was given to Kevin Major for his book Eating Between the Lines.

Literary awards received by Joyce Barkhouse

MS-2-646.2017-044, OS Box 9, Folder 8
File
1982-2003

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

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).

Assorted documents and photographs of Joyce Barkhouse

MS-2-646.2018-013, Box 19, Folder 6
File
1918-1999

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File includes a letter to children's author Claire MacKay and copies of publications that include stories by Joyce Barkhouse, including Hi Venture magazine and the Canadian Children's Literature journal. The file also includes photographs of Blomidon, King's County, Nova Scotia and the Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in addition to copies of poems, birthday invitations, an edited biography of Joyce Barkhouse from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia website, and family history documents.

Joyce's early years

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 13, Folder 2
File
[after 1918]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

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

Diaries written by Joyce Barkhouse

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 24
File
1975-1978, 1980

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two diaries, one kept while Joyce Barkhouse was living with her mother in Woodville, Nova Scotia, and the other written during a trip overseas with her cousin Mary Burton from Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba.

Descriptions of Joyce Barkhouse's family histories

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 14, Folder 9
File
[after 1913]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains descriptions of Joyce Barkhouse's family histories, written by her. Materials contain writing on "Uncle Scott's Brook," "The Ice House," and "The Indian Connection" in regards to the Killam family. Materials also contain one notebook with handwritten ancestry notes.

Photographs of a presentation of The Witch of Port LaJoye given at Halifax Regional Library

MS-2-646, Box 11, Folder 13
File
1984

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A knife for Wiskyek : [short story]

MS-2-646, Box 6, Folder 3
File
1986-1987

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains a short story by Joyce Barkhouse. File also contains related correspondence regarding publication in Canada's Ordinary People.

Joyce Barkhouse: A Youngster at Heart, sketch for an autobiography, and a biography

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 9
File
1978-2003

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

The Work of Joyce Barkhouse and More on the Work of Joyce Barkhouse

MS-2-646, Box 6, Folder 27
File
1989-1990

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Photographs and a newspaper clipping from More on the Work of Joyce Barkhouse

MS-2-646, Box 6, Folder 28
File
[1990?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Joyce Barkhouse: Her Contribution to Literature and Literacy : [term paper]

MS-2-646, Box 7, Folder 1
File
1992

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File also contains a related letter and essay proposal.

Biographical and bibliographical information from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and Sable Island Green Horse Society

MS-2-646.2014-020, Box 12, Folder 22
File
2004-2010

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Biography and resume for Joyce Barkhouse

MS-2-646.2018-013, Box 20, Folder 5
File
[after 1993]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Correspondence with George S. Wells

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 54
File
1966-1967

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Correspondence with Lois Winslow-Spragge and other regarding George Dawson: The Little Giant

MS-2-646, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1967-1988

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

A letter from the Canadian Authors Association

MS-2-646, Box 5, Folder 47
File
1977

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Correspondence with Margaret Atwood and other materials regarding Anna's Pet

MS-2-646, Box 2, Folder 11
File
1977-1989

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

Nova Scotia writing : a time of growth, challenge : [newspaper clipping]

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 76
File
1977

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains a newspaper clipping from the Halifax Herald.

An article regarding an address given at the MSLAVA Author Dinner

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 60
File
[198-?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Photographs featuring Joyce Barkhouse, Budge Wilson, Norene Smiley, Susan Kerslake, and others

MS-2-646, Box 5, Folder 4
File
[199-?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Correspondence with Jane Buss of the Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia

MS-2-646.2018-013, Box 20, Folder 4
File
1993-1999

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File includes correspondence about author Kay Hill, the annual Atlantic Writing Competition (including the Joyce Barkhouse Writing for Children Prize), and Barkhouse's books.

Budge Wilson's correspondence with other writers

MS-2-650.1994-020, Box 6, Folder 7
File
1991-1994

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains correspondence from other writers sent to Budge Wilson, and some photocopies of her outgoing correspondence to writers. The writers include Julie Johnston, Sheila Dalton, Joan Clarke, Betsy Struthers, Leonie M. Poirier, Katherine Paterson, Claire MacKay, Malcolm Ross, Sylvia McNicoll, Donez Xiques, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Weiner Zimmerman, Bill Percy, Sylvia Gunnery, Pam Donogh, Kit Pearson, Paul Robinson, Yan Martel, Timothy Findley, Joyce Barkhouse, Margaret Hammer, Tim Wynne-Jones, Carol Shields, and Sandra Bridsell.

Correspondence from Margaret Laurence to Budge Wilson

MS-2-650.1994-020, Box 6, Folder 13
File
1983-1986

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Daily News review of Words Unrealized and correspondence with the reviewer

MS-2-650, Box 13, Folder 2
File
1991

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence between Budge Wilson and Lindsay Brown, books editor for the Sunday Daily News and two drafts of Wilson's review of "Words Unrealized: Short Stories of Adolescence by Canadian Writers," edited by Andrew Garrod and Janet Webster (St. John's: Breakwater Press, 1991).

Irwin Publishing and Writers Federation of Nova Scotia flyers

MS-2-650, Box 13, Folder 12
File
1992

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains a copy of a flyer advertising Irwin west coast writers (including Budge Wilson) and another flyer listing silent auction items (which included "Budge Wilson's Oyster Buoy") for a Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia event .

Recognition from writers, critics, and editors

MS-2-650.1995-016, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1986-1994

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains copies of newspaper clippings and correspondence.

Notices of Budge Wilson's appearances at Frog Hollow

MS-2-650.1995-016, Box 15, Folder 4
File
1993-1994

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Notices of Budge Wilson's appearances

MS-2-650.1995-016, Box 15, Folder 6
File
1986-1991

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings, newsletters, posters, and flyers, advertising appearances (mainly readings) by Budge Wilson at various places, including writers' unions, libraries, schools, book stores, and book festivals.

Notices of Budge Wilson's appearances

MS-2-650.1995-016, Box 15, Folder 7
File
1985, 1991-1994

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings, newsletters, posters, programs, and flyers, advertising appearances (mainly readings) by Budge Wilson at various places, including writers' unions, libraries, schools, book stores, and book festivals.

Diary kept by Budge Wilson