Year |
Details |
1923 |
Association Public Library is organized at Long Branch, 25 January. |
1930 |
Long Branch Association Library makes its last report to the provincial Inspector of Public Libraries. In its final year, the Association served 3,500 residents, had 548 volumes in the library that circulated 1,501 times, spent $77.97 on books, with total expenditures of $142.14 and a legislative grant of $43.99. |
1943 |
A new association public library is organized in Long Branch. The Long Branch Freemen’s Club spearheads fundraising for the new library. |
1944 |
Long Branch Association Public Library opens in a storefront rented from Loblaw Groceterias on Lake Shore Road, south side, between 33rd Street and Long Branch Avenue, 15 February. |
1945 |
Bylaw establishing the Village of Long Branch [Free] Public Library Board is approved by local voters, 3 December. |
1946 |
Long Branch Public Library Board holds its first meeting on 22 January. It decides to advertise for a part-time librarian and to spend $100 on books. |
1947 |
Long Branch Village Council sets aside property on Lake Shore Road (now Boulevard West) at the northwest corner of 32nd Street for a permanent public library building. The Library Board hires architect A. G. Elton, a Long Branch resident, to prepare plans and estimates for a new library building. |
1948 |
Larger quarters on Lake Shore Road at the southwest corner of 35th Street are leased from the Imperial Bank of Canada, 15 November. |
1954 |
Cornerstone is laid for the new Long Branch Public Library, 17 September. |
1955 |
New building opens in the current location, 26 May, and is officially opened, 8 June. Murray Brown & Elton, Architects designed the four-room, $45,000 building. The relief carving of a reader located above the main entrance is unattributed, but it may be the work of Toronto sculptor E. B. (Elford Bradley) Cox (1914/19-2003). |
1962 |
Long Branch residents vote in favour of constructing additions to the library, at an estimated cost of $75,000 to be repaid over 20 years, 3 December. |
1964 |
Additions for a children's section (east elevation) and a reference and study area (north elevation) are officially opened, 8 June. Murray Brown & Elton, Architects. |
1967 |
Long Branch Public Library Board taken over by the Etobicoke Public Library Board when the Village of Long Branch amalgamated with the Township of Etobicoke, becoming the Borough of Etobicoke. |
1984 |
Etobicoke Public Library Board rejects a plan to close Long Branch and New Toronto branches, and replace them with one larger facility. |
1998 |
Becomes part of the Toronto Public Library with municipal amalgamation, 1 January. |
2005 |
Closed for renovations, 29 January; officially reopened, 27 September. G. Bruce Stratton Architects. |