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Leaside Branch becomes part of the Toronto Public Library with municipal amalgamation, 1 January. 1999: Sunday openings discontinued 25 April. 2001: Closed for reconstruction, 31 March, Moffat Kinoshita Architects Inc. Temporary library service provided at Trace Manes Community Center for 35 hours per week, 17 April. 2002
Toronto Public Library officially opened, March 6, the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Toronto. 1903 Carnegie Corporation of New York granted $350,000 to TPL for a new central library and three branch libraries on the condition that the city would provide the land and guarantee $35,000 a year to support the library.
Oakwood Village Library & Arts Centre. 341 Oakwood Avenue Toronto, ON M6E 2W1. 416-394-1040. View on map. Wheelchair Accessible. Free Wifi.
Toronto City Council votes to provide $60,000 (plus $5,000 for books) to the Toronto Public Library Board for a new branch library in the Dovercourt district. A 150- by 100-foot (46- by 30- metre) site at the southwest corner of Bloor Street and Gladstone Avenue is acquired.
Humber Bay Branch Library opened, 6 January. Building also used as headquarters for the Etobicoke Public Library. 1955: Headquarter for Etobicoke Public Library relocated to new Brentwood Library. 1958: An addition of 800 square feet is started in September and completed by 1 December.
Opened by the North York Public Library Board, 17 September. Banz, Brook Carruthers Grierson, Shaw Architects. 1995: Retrofitted. Makrimichalos Cugini Architects. 1997: Included on an inventory of North York's Modernist Architecture, prepared by the City of North York Planning Department, Urban Design Division. 2007: New open hours, 8 January.
