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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. In 1967 the Town of Mimico was annexed with the other Lake Shore municipalities, back into
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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
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after the Village of Mimico held a plebiscite in 1913 to request funds for a Carnegie Library, several already having been built in Toronto. Mimico'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
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business directories, phone books, maps, government publications, books, periodicals, genealogy, local history,
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Mimico Centennial Library
Toronto
Ontario


library
Toronto
Ontario
Toronto Public Library
Mimico
Etobicoke
Carnegie Library
Etobicoke
Mimico
Carnegie Library
Toronto Public Library
Ask Ontario
Ontario Public Libraries
"' Programs & Classes : Mimico Centennial' Search Results for Toronto Public Library"

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Library buildings completed in 1915
Public libraries in Toronto
Etobicoke
Carnegie libraries in Canada
Libraries established in 1915

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