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

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Showing posts with label canadian library history. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2026

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...

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Canadian Public LIbraries and the Democratic Belief

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

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960–2020

Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960–2020 by Whitney Kemble. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Bo...

Friday, August 08, 2025

Canadian Special Libraries Form a National Identity, 1945–1970

Library of Parliament, Ottawa, 1940s In the spring of 1946, Elizabeth Homer Morton, the Secretary of the Canadian Library Council, recounted...

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