Canadian Library History Blog

Canadian Library History is a blog about the history and historiography of Canadian libraries and librarians

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Janet Carnochan and the Niagara Library

On the grounds of the Niagara Historical Society and Museum in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake there is a familiar Ontario Heritage Trust pl...

Three Ontario Public Library Buildings before 1900

In the early stage of the public library movement in Ontario after the Free Libraries Act came into force in 1882, there were no standalone ...

Henry Pearson Gundy (1905–1994)

Henry Pearson Gundy was a prominent scholar-librarian who made important contributions to Canadian literature, printing, and publishing as w...

Early Toronto Libraries, 1810–1830: Toronto Library and York Subscription Library

The Town of York was founded in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as the capital of Upper Canada. York replaced Newark (Niagara...

Radio Broadcasts by Canadian Libraries before 1945

Canada was a pioneer in the development of radio. As early as May 1920, the Montreal station XWA (later CFCF) went on the air delivering a s...

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Lorne Bruce: Formerly in charge of the Archival and Special Collections at University of Guelph. Published "Free Books for All: the Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930" in 1994; "Places to Grow: Public Libraries and Communities in Ontario, 1930-2000" in 2020 (revised); "Public Library Boards in Postwar Ontario" (2nd ed) with Karen Bruce in 2012, and "George Herbert Locke and The Transformation of Toronto Public Library, 1908–1937" (rev. 2024).

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