Bookmobile has the following schedule modifications. Thank you for your patience.
Monday, September 15
Tuesday, September 16
Wednesday, September 17
Thursday, September 18
To avoid a replacement or lost fee, please return library materials due October 1st or later within 28 days. Replacement fees are intended to encourage Members to return items on a timely basis so everyone in the community can enjoy them.
Central Library's Fourth Floor is closed on Tuesday, September 16, from Noon to 6 pm due to a special event. Makerspace and Newcomer Learning Centre will remain open. Floors 1-3 are available as study and work spaces. www.hpl.ca/central
Due to roof repair maintenance, the Branch is temporarily closed from September 2 until October 10. Please visit the Red Hill, Parkdale, and Barton locations as your nearest branches for your library needs. On August 28-29, there may be some noise disruptions and limited parking spots while the roof repair set-up begins. Thank you for your patience.
The decision was made to build a new city hall. Plans were called for and the winning plan, selected on January 11, 1886, was by C.W. Mulligan. However, when the plan arrived at the tendering stage the winning design was by James Balfour (28). A plebiscite was held on the by-law to build the new City Hall on May 11, 1887, and passed 1,203 to 348. "The building will occupy part of the site of the old one, but will extend further north, covering the space between the old building and the White Elephant saloon. It is likely also, that the latter building will be pulled down to make room for the new municipal building" (29). On October 10, 1887 the bulk tender of M.A. Pigott of $126,000 with $1,000 off for the old building was accepted (30). The old city hall was photographed on November 4, 1887 with the aldermen, city officials and general public in the foreground. Mayor McKay and Adam Brown, M.P., occupied the positions of honour. The photograph was to be framed and hung in the council chamber of the new city hall (31). On October 31 the last council meeting was held in the old building (32).
In order to build the new city hall, the old one had to be removed and the city fathers had to move to another location for the duration. On November 28, they had approved a resolution that "[t]he building situated on James Street, formerly occupied as a Post Office, shall be used until the new City Hall be finished" (33). In November, they began to move over to the old post office. The Spectator noted that "[t]he arrangement of the old post office building is not quite completed, and has been delayed by the extremely dirty condition of the interior, which has needed to be washed three or four times before it could be made habitable. When handed over to the city it looked as if it had never been cleaned since the post office people first moved in. As an official remarked, it is to be hoped that the new post officers are taking better care of their new building" (34). Demolition began the following week.
