Library History Today Blog

Lillian Smith became the first Canadian children’s librarian with academic credentials when she began her career at Toronto Public Library...

Marie-Claire Daveluy was a Montreal-based librarian whose career spanned three decades in which she made a number of important contributions...

 Mary Kinley Ingraham was the chief librarian at Acadia University from 1917-1944 at a time when very few females headed academic libraries ...

Helen Gordon Stewart was an early, important influential leader in Canadian librarianship, especially in western Canada. She had an ongoing ...

 Along with Mary Black, Mabel Dunham, the chief librarian at Kitchener (previously Berlin) from 1908–44, is notable for assuming a leadershi...