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Another Toronto Library to Mark 100 Years of Service!

Toronto Public Library’s Annette Street Branch to Celebrate Centennial on September 12

TORONTO — Toronto Public Library’s Annette Street Branch, Toronto’s second oldest operating public library, will celebrate its 100-year anniversary with an all-day party on Saturday, September 12, 2009. The event is open to the public and festivities will include live music, a magician and juggler, a kids craft table, a birthday cake and more. The West Toronto Junction Historical Society will present a walking tour of the Junction community and Heritage Toronto will unveil a plaque to commemorate the Centennial anniversary of the beautiful Beaux-Arts Annette Street Branch building.

What: Annette Street Branch 100th Anniversary Party Who: Matthew Church, Chair, Toronto Public Library Board, Jane Pyper, City Librarian, Bill Saundercook, Local City Councillor, Barbara McPhail, Heritage Toronto When: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Key times include:

10:00 a.m. – Birthday card craft table with celebrated children’s illustrator Loris Lesynski

10:00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. – Book signing of The Most Attractive Resort in Town: Public Library Service in West Toronto Junction, 1888-2009 by Barbara Myrvold

10:30 a.m. – Historical Walking Tour with members of the West Toronto Junction Historical Society

12:00 p.m. – Heritage Toronto plaque presentation

12:30 p.m. – Refreshments and entertainment

3:00 p.m. – A Trip Down Memory Lane with local historians A.B. Rice and Miss Elizabeth McCallum, the first librarian for Annette Street Branch

4:00 p.m. – Draw to win one of five copies of The Most Attractive Resort in Town: Public Library Service in West Toronto Junction, 1888-2009 by Barbara Myrvold

Where: Annette Branch, 145 Annette Street