Library History Today Blog

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

Before the Second World War, there was only one standalone university library building in the Canadian west. The University of British Colum...

Over the course of twenty years, in the 1950s and 1960s, libraries at the University of Toronto continued to expand and improve as they beca...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Andrew Carnegie began dispensing grants to Ontario libraries. Many ambitious cities and towns sub...

In 1961 the National Centennial Act established a federal Centennial Commission reporting to Parliament. This Commission intended to celebra...