Interested in the history of Canadian settlement and colonialism? Frontier Life is a digital collection of primary sources including material from the Hudson Bay Archives and the Glenbow Archives. It is designed to enrich teaching and research, examining settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920.
Access to Canadian library patrons has been arranged through Consortia Canada.
Andree Duval, Relief Librarian for the County of Lennox & Addington Libraries, recently read Ultimatum by Karen Robards which she describes as a breakneck speed thriller that kept her turning pages well into the night.
Do you have a family heirloom at home that you can't quite identify or date? As part of Culture Days activities happening throughout Ontario, you're invited to a series of Antique Identification & Dating Clinics at the L&A County Museum & Archives on September 30th. Janet Carlile, accredited antiques appraiser, will be on hand at the museum to answer questions about your little treasures.
You’re invited to a great night of music at the Lennox and Addington County Museum & Archives in Napanee on Thursday, September 28th at 7pm.
The evening’s entertainment features talented performer Lotus Wight. He plays the banjo and the contrabass harmoniphoneum for an unforgettable sound that you won't want to miss. The Carolinas, the Mississippi Valley, West Virginia, Kentucky, and New England fed Lotus the sounds of tradition to help him form his one-of-a-kind music.
It's September which means its time for you to vote for the Ontario Library Assocation's Evergreen Award for 2017. The Evergreen Award is best described as the “readers’ choice” of Canadian literary awards. Each year, a list of ten nominees is selected by a committee of librarians and in September library patrons from all across the province can vote on their favourite. The winner will be announced during Ontario Public Library Week in October.
Karen from the Bath Branch of the County of L&A Libraries recently enjoyed The Last Days of Summer by Sophie Pembroke. She says it's a "warm and engaging family drama, with a little romance, and a little humour to lighten things up."
Caitlyn from the Napanee Branch of the County of L&A Libraries recently enjoyed Robin Benway's Emmy & Oliver, a contemporary YA romance with heart.
Kelly, Coordinator of the Yarker Branch, recently enjoyed reading one of the biggest new CanLit releases, Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez.
“Scarborough is the debut novel from playwright Catherine Hernandez,” Kelly explains. The book focuses on a passage of one year in the lives of community members that are associated with a literacy program at a school in Scarborough.”
Canada’s Centennial year, 1967, is fondly remembered by boomers for its Centennial Spectaculars, Expo ’67 in Montreal, the Voyageur Canoe Pageant, the Centennial train and the Centennial caravan. As well, young people had opportunities to travel across the country and experience first-hand, the geographic magnitude of this country.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman has been one of the summer’s biggest surprise hits.
For a debut novel with an unassuming cover, it is very impressive that it has already been read by nearly 20,000 Goodreads members and has a 4.34/5 rating. It has also been nominated for several UK literary awards, which is doubly impressive since it’s not the standard kind of highbrow literary fiction that usually dominates this realm.