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- 1988-11-17
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Operating hours of the Holland Court library
Bradford Gazette
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Part of Local History Collection
Operating hours of the Holland Court library
Bradford Gazette
BWGPL 20th anniversary- Letter from Peter Van Loan
Part of Local History Artifacts
Letter congratulating BWGPL on 20th years in the Holland Court location by MP Peter Van Loan
Peter Van Loan
From Mechanics' Institute to a State-of-the-Art Public Library
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"Editor's note: with the new Bradford Public Library scheduled to hold Official Opening Ceremonies November 6, 1988, following is an article submitted by D. Cilipka on the library's past history in Bradford." ...
Bradford Gazette
Public Library Board of Management meeting
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"The new Act respecting the regulations of Public Libraries calls for a meeting on the second Monday in January for the election of a Board of Directors. Accordingly a meeting of the members of the Bradford Public Library was recently held in Mr. T.W.W. Evans' office." ...
Bradford Witness
Bradford Public Library catalogue
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New acquisitions for the Library catalogue in 1900.
Bradford Witness
Bradford Public Library catalogue
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New acquisitions for the Library catalogue in September 1900.
Bradford Witness
Bradford Public LIbrary annual meeting call
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"The annual public meeting in connection with the Bradford Public Library will be held in the Fire Hall on Monday evening next at 8 o'clock. All who take an interest in books and reading are requested to be present."
Bradford Witness
Part of Local History Collection
Article from the Bradford Witness - May 31 1906 edition on H.S. Broughton, postmaster and librarian of Bradford. This edition provides many biographies and photographs of prominent citizens at the time.
Edmund Garrett
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This portrait is of A.N. Scarrow, and was featured alongside members of the Model School Board including Rev. F. Smith, E.P. Snow, James Bemrose, John Elliott, and Samuel Martin.
Scarrow was the principal of the Public and Model Schools from 1902, and was President of the Bradford Library Board.
Edmund Garrett
Part of Local History Collection
Photograph of Ethel Day, wife of Professor W.H. Day and librarian of Bradford Public Library from 1936 - 1953. She was also the mother of Ida Day Smith, former librarian, whom she took over from in 1936. Mrs. Day was the sole librarian and worked originally a room on the second floor of T.W.W. Evans law office at 21 Holland St. West, then in the late 1940s, moved to a room above the fire hall on Barrie Street. She hand-wrote all records, and was librarian until her death on November 23, 1953.