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Early in 2000, the Erindale College Library was renamed the University of Toronto Mississauga Library. In 2004, construction began on a new 110,000-square-foot (10,200 m 2 ), $34-million library building project—the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre (named after former City of Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion ).
The Hazel McCallion Central Library (commonly shortened to Central Library) is located in the city centre at 301 Burnhamthorpe Road West, adjacent to the Mississauga Civic Centre. It is the largest branch of the Mississauga Library System, containing four floors of materials and a further floor for silent study, and has functioned as the main ...
The opening date for the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre was in October, 2006. [26] The library's dimensions are 10,075 gross square metres/ (per) 108,500 square feet. Study rooms are located on each floor and can be booked through the library website. [ 26 ]
Hazel Mary Muriel McCallion CM OOnt (née Journeaux; February 14, 1921 – January 29, 2023) was a Canadian politician who served as the fifth mayor of Mississauga. First elected in November 1978, McCallion was mayor for 36 years until her retirement in 2014, [ 1 ] making her the longest-serving mayor in the city's history. [ 2 ]
The new library and academic learning centre, designed by Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners and named after former Mississauga mayor, Hazel McCallion, opened October 8, 2006, and the new Recreation, Athletics and Wellness Centre, also by Shore Tilbe, opened less than a month previous to that. The new library consists of four floors with a mixture of ...
With his re-election in 2014, Krantz surpassed the retired Hazel McCallion as Ontario's longest-serving mayor on December 1, 2016, and the longest-serving mayor of a major municipality in Canada. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He was re-elected by a 1,000 vote margin in the 2022 municipal election .
At the time, the library had a budget of $170,000. [2] Blackburn served as the first president of CACUL, the former Canadian Association of College & University Libraries, in 1963 and 1964. [5] [6] The Robert H. Blackburn Distinguished Paper Award, presented annually by the Canadian Library Association, was named in his honour. [7]
Prior to the annexing of Mississauga, Hazel McCallion was the mayor of Streetsville (1970–1973) and was the township's last reeve (1967–1970). She was the fifth mayor of Mississauga and lived in Streetsville until her death on January 29, 2023 from pancreatic cancer.