Sechelt Public Library Collection -- Index

1 Activities (1999-2006)

2 Children's Programs (1999-2008)

3 Volunteers (2011)

Sechelt Public Library Collection, Activities, Page 5

The Sechelt Public Library was started by volunteers with the first collection of books being stored in Mrs. Bea Swanson's house until a suitable location could be found to house them. Mrs. Ada Dawe contacted Mr. Jack Redman, a local grocer, who donated space above his store on Cowrie Street, for the first public library. From 1961 until 1966 the library operated out of this space. It then moved for a year to a ground level floor in a donated cottage on the south side of Cowrie Street, where the Sechelt Hospital Auxiliary store is today. A Centennial grant paid for a new building to be built on Trail Avenue behind today's Shell Gas Station. It was completely staffed with volunteers until the mid-1980s when the first paid librarian was appointed.

In 1995 plans were approved for a new library which was built and opened in 1996 with the District of Sechelt offices located on the second floor. This present library is staffed by full-time and part-time trained librarians but is still dependent on many volunteers who help in the library and the Friends of the Library group who raise funds for equipment.

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spl.2000.8 Dec 2000 -- Volunteer Christmas Open House -- Stu Young serving punch. Photographer unknown. Photograph courtesy The Sechelt Public Library.

spl.2000.9 Dec 2000 -- Volunteer Christmas Open House -- Anne Carr, Alison Steele, and Jocelyn working on a "get acquainted" game. Photographer unknown. Photograph courtesy The Sechelt Public Library.

spl.2000.10 February 2000 -- AGM Library Board (back) Viveca Ohm, Louise Colliss, James Marten, Michael Prior, Diana Lofstrom, Ruth Moore. (sitting) Rosina Giles, Jay Hess, Robert Allen, Nita Halsall. Photographer unknown. Photograph courtesy The Sechelt Public Library.

spl.2000.11 2001 -- Quintessential Writers (local authors) evening of presentations. Teresa Kiskan (Pender Harbour), launch of Teresa Kishkan's Inishbream. Photographer unknown. Photograph courtesy The Sechelt Public Library.

spl.2000.12 April 2000 -- Book Launch for L. R. (Bunny) Wright author of many mysteries set in Sechelt and the Sunshine Coast. LR Wright signing books with Bev Shaw and Dale Burns (booksellers) Photographer unknown. Photograph courtesy The Sechelt Public Library.

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