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The Clinton library is the only Carnegie library in Canada which was funded as an addition to an existing building, which was built in 1900. [24] Collingwood Public Library Collingwood: Ontario: August 16, 1901: 14,500 1904: Maple St. and Second St.
Carnegie Community Centre is located at 401 Main Street at the corner of Hastings Street, in the old Carnegie Public Library building in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1901 Vancouver requested $50,000 from industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for the purpose of building a library.
A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems.
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This is a list of lists of Carnegie libraries. List of Carnegie libraries in the United States; List of Carnegie libraries in Canada; List of Carnegie libraries in Europe; List of Carnegie libraries in Africa; List of Carnegie libraries in the Caribbean; List of Carnegie libraries in Oceania
It began as Mimico Carnegie Library after the Village of Mimico held a plebiscite in 1913 to request funds for a Carnegie Library, [2] several already having been built in Toronto. Mimico's population was below the threshold set for Carnegie grants but was nevertheless approved and in 1915 the Mimico Carnegie Library opened on Pigeon St (later ...
The move from the Carnegie site to the new location at 750 Burrard began in mid-October 1957, and the official opening of the new library was held on 1 November 1957. The library remained at the Burrard building until 22 April 1995, when it closed in preparation for the move to a new location at Library Square (350 West Georgia Street).
The Ottawa Public Library (OPL; French: Bibliothèque publique d'Ottawa) is the library system of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [1] The library was founded in 1906 with a donation from the Carnegie Foundation .