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Toronto’s elite, headed by Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor the
Honourable Sir William Mortimer Clark, gathered on November 27, 1906 for
the official cornerstone laying of the Toronto Public Library’s
new central library. Honourable Sir William Glenholme Falconbridge, chief
justice of Ontario and chairman of the Toronto Public Library Board, presided
at the ceremonies. Falconbridge laid the cornerstone, declaring: “May
the structure which will be erected on the stone which I have today declared
to be well and truly laid be a source of material improvement, of innocent
pleasure and of inspiration to unnumbered generations of our fellow citizens.”1
1Toronto Public Library,
Annual Report, 1906, 18.
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