Katherine Jane "Janie" Gordon Ellice (née Balfour; 1813 – 13 April 1864) was a Scottish diarist and artist.

[1] During the Battle of Beauharnois, she, her husband, and her sister—along with the general household—were taken by surprise during a nighttime siege led by François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, then held as prisoners.

Lord Durham had resigned 9 October 1838, and returned to England, which the Ellice household had been scheduled to do on 9 November, but were then captives.

[5] Ellice's watercolour depictions of aspects of the 1837 Rebellion, painted while residing in Beauharnois, as well as other works representing Quebec, are included in her art album which is now held at the Library and Archives Canada.

[citation needed] Her father-in-law, Edward Ellice—who had furnished her with the diary and the task of filling it on her journey abroad—was a frequent host to notable visitors to Scotland, thought highly of "Janie" and so enlisted her, in 1859, as hostess, when the artist Richard Doyle visited; she was given an illustrated diary of a journey to the islands of Rona and Skye.