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Thursday, January 15, 2026

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

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The Town of York was founded in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as the capital of Upper Canada. York replaced Newark (Niagara...
Thursday, January 01, 2026

Radio Broadcasts by Canadian Libraries before 1945

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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...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

George-Émile Marquis and Public Libraries in Quebec before 1945

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Nos bibliothèques publiques , by Georges-Émile Marquis. Québec: Éditions du Terroir, 1925, 16 p., illus. Plaidoyer pour les bibliothèques p...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Canadian Public LIbraries and the Democratic Belief

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The ‘Library Faith’ in Books, Reading, and Democracy A longstanding belief in the positive influence of the public library in 20th-century N...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Three Early Maritime Memorial Libraries at Dalhousie, Acadia, and Mount Allison

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College and university education evolved slowly in the Canadian Maritime provinces before 1900. By the time of the First World War, Dalhousi...
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