Joyce Carman Barkhouse[1] CM ONS (May 3, 1913 – February 2, 2012) was a Canadian children's writer best known for writing historical fiction.
Born in Woodville, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Harold Edwin Killam, a rural family physician, and his wife, Ora Louise (née Webster), Joyce was educated in Woodville until transferring to King’s County Academy in Kentville to complete grade twelve.
After receiving a Teacher's License from the Provincial Normal College in Truro in 1932, she began teaching in Sand Hill.
In 1939, she began teaching in Liverpool, Nova Scotia where she met Milton Joseph Barkhouse, a teller with the Royal Bank of Canada.
[1] In 2008, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for "her contributions to children’s literature and the Canadian literary community".