Mimico Centennial Library

Coordinates: 43°36′54″N 79°29′38″W / 43.615°N 79.49389°W / 43.615; -79.49389

Carniegie Library (demolished)

The current library

Mimico Centennial Library is the public library of Mimico in Canada. It began as Mimico Carnegie Library after the Village of Mimico held a plebiscite in 1913 to request funds for a Carnegie Library^[1], several already having been built in Toronto. Mimico Village's population was below the threshold set for Carnegie grants but was nevertheless approved and in 1915 the Mimico Carnegie Library opened on Pigeon St (later combined with Stanley Ave.). In 1917 Mimico became a Town and the town council used the library for its meetings until it purchased the old Mimico Wesleyan Methodist Church on Church St (Royal York Rd) which was vacated by the Methodist Church after the construction of the new United Church^[2]. Mimico's Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire placed two plaques in the Library after the First World War to commemorate the town's servicemen; one plaque for all who had fought, the other for Mimico's dead. In 1966, to celebrate Canada's centenary, the Carnegie Library became the only one of Canada's 42 Carnegie Libraries to be demolished (along with several homes on Stanley Ave. and Station Rd.) and a new 'Centennial Library' was built. The plaques commemorating Mimico's servicemen from the First World War were placed in a new 'Vimy Park' at Queens Ave and Lake Shore Blvd^[3]. The next year the Town of Mimico was annexed with the other Lake Shore municipalities, back into Etobicoke which became a Borough. Mimico Centennial Library became part of the Etobicoke Public Library System until the creation of the Toronto 'megacity' in 1997 when it joined the Toronto Public Library System.^[4]

See also

• Mimico
• Carnegie Library
• Toronto Public Library

References

1. ^ The Mimico Story, Currell, Harvey 1967, Pg 76
2. ^ The Mimico Story, Currell, Harvey 1967, Pg 76
3. ^ The Mimico Story, Currell, Harvey 1967
4. ^ http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?N=37867+33151

External links

• http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/abo_his_car_mimico_sub2.jsp