APPENDIX TWO: LIBRARIES:

The following is a list of information taken from the annual “Report of the PEI Libraries,” which appeared in the Department of Education Reports. The information listed appears from 1938 until 1970 at which time information about the libraries ceases to be listed within the Department Reports:

w: W: NUMBER OF NUMBER OF BOOKS IN REGISTERED CIRCULATION: BORROWERS: 1938 Mrs. Gordon Sanderson 6.947 N/A* 1939 N/A 5,177 N/A 1940 N/A 4.301 N/A 1941 N/A 6,431 N/A 1942 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 2.899 N/A 1943 Mrs. Alex O’Hanley 2,095 N/A 1944 Mrs. Alex O’I-Ianley 2,323 500 1945 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 1,635 530 1946 Mrs. James Gallant 562 124 1947 Mrs. Alex O'Hanley 1,654 147 1948 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 1,338 185 1949 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 1,141 202 1950 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 797 41 1951 Mrs. Alex O'Hanley 1.250 60 1952 Mrs. Alex O'Hanley 1,274 106 1953 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 959 147 1954 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 1,379 N/A 1955 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 2,665 N/A 1956 Mrs. Alex O'Hanley 1,580 N/A 1957 Mrs. Alex O‘Hanley 979 197 1958 Mrs. Anne MacLaren 2,931 211 1959 Mrs. Mary Maclsaac 2,573 247 1960 Mrs. Mary Maclsaac 3.619 N/A 1961 Mrs. Mary Maclsaac 1.281 202 1962 Mrs. Mary Maclsaac 3.672 242 1963 Mrs. Mary Maclsaac 3,336 316 1964 Mrs. Mary Maclsaac 4,739 359 1966 The St. Peters Library, a new building erected in 1964 and one of our

most flourishing branches, was destroyed by fire in April of 1966. Shortly afterwards. the branch was set up again in its former quarters in the school, and plans were made to rebuild the library.

1967 St. Peters has its second new library in three years. A replacement for

the building destroyed by fire in 1966 was ready for use in March 1967, and was formally opened in May.

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The information was not listed for that year.

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