New Toronto

110 Eleventh Street,
Toronto, ON M8V 3G5

Hours

Monday	Closed
Tuesday	10:00 am	to	6:00 pm
Wednesday	12:30 pm	to	8:30 pm
Thursday	12:30 pm	to	8:30 pm
Friday	10:00 am	to	6:00 pm
Saturday	9:00 am	to	5:00 pm
Sunday	1:30 pm	to	5:00 pm

Wheelchair Accessible
Free Wifi

General Inquiries

To speak directly with staff at New Toronto Branch during branch hours, please call the number listed above.

For general questions about Toronto Public Library, your account, and quick reference help, email Answerline using the link below.

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Directions, TTC & Parking

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Closest major intersection Kipling Ave. and Lake Shore Blvd. West. Located on the west side of Eleventh Street, half a block south of Lake Shore Blvd. West.

Public Transit

TTC bus #110 from Islington subway station, stops at Lake Shore Blvd. West and 13th Street.
TTC streetcar #501 along Lake Shore Blvd. West stops at Lake Shore and 12th Street.

Parking

Free - parking off Eleventh Street

Branch Features

General Features

Book Discussion Group: contact the branch for more information
Book Drop - After Hours
Express Checkout
Free Parking
Seating for 45
Teen Zone

Equipment for persons with disabilities

Book stand
Computer with screen magnification software (Zoomtext)
Large print keyboard
Large trackball mouse
Magnifier
Natural spectrum lamp
Page turner

Technology

Collections

Adult Literacy Materials
Audiobooks on CD
Large Print Collection

Language

Medium collection in French-Children , Polish-Adult

Meeting Rooms

For booking information call 416-397-5969.

Meeting Room

693 sq. ft.
Seats 50 lecture style. Seats 25 classroom style. Fire Code Occupancy: 50.
Equipment:
- chairs (50)
- flip chart stand
- tables (5)
- kitchenette with mini-fridge

Meeting Room and wheelchair accessible washroom are located on the main floor.

History

Year	Details
1921	New Toronto Association Public Library is organized, 18 March. A volunteer-run library is located at 86 Lake Shore Road at the northeast corner of Sixth Street (in a small room in the rear of the New Toronto Municipal Office and in the same building as the Public Utilities Commission).
1923	Assets of the New Toronto Association Public Library are transferred to the municipally-supported New Toronto Public Library Board, established on 9 February.
1927	W. (Walter) Grayson Brown, architect, is hired to design a new library, 3 June. Town of New Toronto Council agrees on 19 August to issue debentures of $15,000 for a library building. New Toronto contractor David P. Gourlie is granted the contract on 22 August to building the library for $14,124. Construction begins in October on a site acquired from William G. Jackson and Alexander Keith.
1928	New Toronto Public Library is officially opened on the west side of Eleventh Street, south of Lake Shore Road, 9 February.
1941	Ina M. Keesee Children’s Library is opened, 22 June. As well as serving as the secretary-treasurer of New Toronto Public Library Board from 1921 until her death in 1956, Mrs. Keesee was the regent of the Lakeshore Chapter, Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, formed in March 1937 with the primary aim “to assist in the building of a Children’s Library”. Fundraising produced donations of $6,131.27, including $1,400 from the IODE; the town contributed the balance of $7,500.
1954	Reference and reading room wing addition, built at a cost of $43,000, is officially opened, 5 May. New Toronto is “pronounced the best small library in the province and its reference section the finest anywhere in a library of its size”. Ontario Library Review, 38 (August 1954), 219.
1967	New Toronto Public Library Board is taken over by the Etobicoke Public Library Board with the amalgamation of the Towns of New Toronto, Mimico and Long Branch with the Township of Etobicoke to become the Borough of Etobicoke.
1984	Etobicoke Public Library Board rejects a plan to close Long Branch and New Toronto branches, and replace them with one larger facility.
1993	The 1928 library, and the 1941 and 1954 additions, are demolished.
1994	New building is officially opened, 3 November. Moffat Kinoshita Architects. Recipient of a City of Etobicoke Urban Design Award, March 1996.
1998	New Toronto Branch becomes part of the Toronto Public Library with municipal amalgamation, 1 January.
2005	Hours open per week increased from 37 hours to 40 hours, 6 September.
2006	Closed 25 June for repainting, new carpet and shelf ends; landscaping done by Etobicoke Horticultural Society; enlarged Teen Zone with seating. reopened 11 July.
2014	Closed 10 February for RFID installation. Reopened 18 February.
2014	Design Excellence Award (Ontario Association of Architects).

Land Acknowledgement

New Toronto is on Indigenous land. The Anishinaabemowin (Ah-nish-nah-be-mo-win) name for this area is Adobigok (ah-doh-bih-gok), which means the Place of the Alders.

This is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee (ho-den-oh-sho-nee) Confederacy (aka. the Six Nations Confederacy), the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Toronto Public Library gratefully acknowledges these Indigenous nations for their guardianship of this land. We'd also like to remind and reaffirm, as Torontonians and Canadians, our accountability to these Indigenous nations, and to all Indigenous peoples and communities living in Toronto.

This land is also part of the Dish with One Spoon territory, a treaty between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (aka. The Six Nations Confederacy), the Anishinaabek (Ah-nish-nah-bek) and allied nations, to peaceably share and care for this land, its waters, and all of the biodiversity in the Great Lakes region. All those who come to live and work here are responsible for honouring this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect. About Land Acknowledgement Statements