Another "Carnegie" Library, Toronto Public Library’s Annette Street Branch, Celebrates Its Centennial on Saturday, September 12, 2009

Annette 100 evite: Toronto Public Library Community Cornerstones:
Annette Street Branch: 1909 - 100 - 2009
145 Annette Street
Come celebrate with us all day on Saturday, September 12

Experience the Junction’s History
10 am & 2 pm Meet Barbara Myrvold, Toronto Public Library’s local history librarian – and purchase a personally signed copy of The Most Attractive Resort in Town: Public Library Service in West Toronto Junction, 1888–2009.
10:30 am Join members of the West Toronto Junction Historical Society for a walking tour into the neighbourhood’s past.
12 noon Official ceremony and plaque presentation from Heritage Toronto.

3 pm Meet the Junction’s early librarian Miss Elizabeth McCallum and former board chair A. B. Rice in this reenactment of the early days of this Carnegie library.

Entertainment for the Whole Family
10 am Birthday Card Craft Table Kids! Join professional illustrator Loris Lesynski and make birthday cards for Annette Street Branch.
12:30 – 4 pm Cake, refreshments, music, magic, juggling and more.

Credit: torontopubliclibrary.ca

"I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of
the people, because they give nothing for nothing...They reach the
aspiring and open to these chief treasures of the world -- those stored up
in books".

Andrew Carnegie, 1900

Congratulations to the Annette Street Branch on more than 100 years of service to the West Toronto Junction community.


Annette Street Branch 100th Anniversary Party

When: Saturday, September 12, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: Annette Branch, 145 Annette Street

Who: Matthew Church, Chair, Toronto Public Library Board, Jane Pyper, City Librarian, Bill Saundercook, Local City Councillor, Barbara McPhail, Heritage Toronto

Toronto Public Library’s Annette Street Branch, Toronto’s second oldest operating public library, will celebrate its 100-year anniversary with an all-day party on Saturday, September 12, 2009. The event is open to the public and festivities will include live music, a magician and juggler, a kids craft table, a birthday cake and more. The West Toronto Junction Historical Society will present a walking tour of the Junction community and Heritage Toronto will unveil a plaque to commemorate the Centennial anniversary of the beautiful Beaux-Arts Annette Street Branch building.

Key times include:

10:00 a.m. – Birthday card craft table with celebrated children’s illustrator Loris Lesynski

10:00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. – Book signing of The Most Attractive Resort in Town: Public Library Service in West Toronto Junction, 1888-2009 by Barbara Myrvold

10:30 a.m. – Historical Walking Tour with members of the West Toronto Junction Historical Society

12:00 p.m. – Heritage Toronto plaque presentation

12:30 p.m. – Refreshments and entertainment

3:00 p.m. – A Trip Down Memory Lane with local historians A.B. Rice and Miss Elizabeth McCallum, the first librarian for Annette Street Branch

4:00 p.m. – Draw to win one of five copies of The Most Attractive Resort in Town: Public Library Service in West Toronto Junction, 1888-2009 by Barbara Myrvold

links:
torontopubliclibrary.ca: Another Toronto Library to Mark 100 Years of Service!
Google Books: Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
GeoHack - Toronto Junction Public Library
WGS84 43°39'48.92" N, 79°27'58.4"W
Annette Street Branch TPL's blog: annettestreetbranch.wordpress.com



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September 03, 2009
by Annette Street Branch Library, TPL