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(If Willie could have his dream, he would go to Sable Isla...)
If Willie could have his dream, he would go to Sable Island and ride free over the sand dunes on the back of a wild horse. Instead, 11-year-old Willie must work in the coal mines of Cape Breton, hardly ever seeing the light of day. But with the help of Gem, the gentle pit pony, he discovers that things aren't always as bad as they seem. And a surprising event reveals that miracles can happen, even in a coal mine.
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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.
She is the aunt of Margaret Atwood, with whom she co-wrote the children"s book Anna"s Pet. In 1939, she began teaching in Liverpool, Nova Scotia where she met Milton Joseph Barkhouse, a teller with the Royal Bank of Canada. After marrying in 1942, they had two children, Murray Roy, and Janet Louise.
After his death in 1968, she returned to her native Nova Scotia.
Barkhouse began writing in 1932 but didn"t publish her first novel, George Dawson: The Little Giant, until 1974. She is best known for writing the novel Pit Pony, published in 1989, which was produced as a Canadian Broadcasting Company Television film in 1997, and a Gemini Award-winning television series in 1999.
(If Willie could have his dream, he would go to Sable Isla...)
She was an honorary life member of The Writers" Union of Canada and the Writers" Federation of Nova Scotia.
