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George H. Locke, chief librarian of the Toronto Public Library between 1908 and 1937, was Canada’s foremost librarian in the first part of t...

In June 1946, the Canadian Library Association was founded on the McMaster University campus in Hamilton, Ontario. There were about 300 pers...

Betty Butterill, n.d. I had an opportunity to speak at OLA's most recent Super Conference in Toronto. It was the twenty-fifth anniversar...

Early in the twentieth century a small group of trustees, librarians, and persons interested in libraries met in Toronto at the Ontario Educ...

The Institution shall be called The Toronto Public Library—and the date of its commencement is hereby declared to be the 27th of October, 18...