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While Andrew Carnegie did not personally open any of the Toronto libraries, he briefly visited the central public library at Church and Adelaide streets on April 27, 1906, where he was thanked by the library board and a deputation from Victoria College for their respective grants. Carnegie shook hands with “a group of ladies, members of the library staff, who were lined up to see him.” He was then taken to City Hall to receive an address of welcome from Mayor Emerson Coatsworth.

 

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