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(BQ) Part 1 book "Free books for all - The public library movement in ontario, 1850-1930" has contents: Common school and mechanics' institute libraries, from one century to another, the days of advance, the caliban of the nineteenth century,.and other contents. | Free Books for All THE PUBLIC LIBRARY MOVEMENT IN ONTARIO, 1850-1930 LORNE BRUCE ONTARIO Wftoe- ^J BOOK/ ^ AWARD This publication has been assisted by an Ontario Heritage Book Award from the Ontario Heritage Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation Toronto & Oxford Dundurn Press Copyright © Lome Bruce, 1994 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except brief passages for purposes of review), without the prior permission of Dundurn Press Limited. Permission to photocopy should be requested from the Canadian Reprography Collective. Edited by Michael Power Printed and bound in Canada by Best Book Manufacturers The author and publisher are particularly grateful to the Ontario Heritage Foundation, an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation, for a research grant and a grant in aid of publication. The publisher wishes to acknowledge the generous assistance and ongoing support of the Canada Council, the Book Publishing Industry Development Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Publishing Centre. Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in the text (including the illustrations). The author and publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any reference or credit in subsequent editions. / Kirk Howard, Publisher Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Bruce, Lome, 1948Free books for all: the public library movement in Ontario Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55002-205-9 1. Public libraries — Ontario - History. I. Title. 1994 Dundurn Press Limited 2181 Queen Street East Suite 301 Toronto, Canada M4E1E5 C94-932135-4 Dundurn Distribution 73 Lime Walk Headington, Oxford England 0X3 7AD Dundurn Press .