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Try This:
- Click on the "Related Materials" drop-down
menu and select Notes - “Text from the Atlas.”
- Scroll to the heading “Public Libraries” and read about collective libraries.
- Close the Notes pop-up box and return to the map.
- Click on the "Zoom to" drop-down menu and
select “Southern Ontario.”
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Notice ...
- Libraries before 1820 were strictly urban features.
- This map offers no clue as to the language of the library holdings.
- Canada’s earliest libraries were private, not public, institutions.
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Consider!
- General reading in the early 19th century bears the earmarks of an
elitist activity, restricted to those people with disposable income.
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