| Year |
Details |
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| 1950 |
Township of Etobicoke Public Library agrees to offer $7,410 to Kingsway Baptist Church to purchase “land having a frontage of about Ninety feet (90’) on the southerly side of Birchview Boulevard by a depth of about One Hundred and Eighteen Feet (118’) on the easterly [sic, westerly] side of Brentwood Road” as the site for its main library, 1 December. The sale is completed on 6 July 1951. |
| 1951 |
A bookmobile stop is provided at the corner of Brentwood and Birchview each Saturday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. |
| 1953 |
Arthur H. Eadie is officially appointed as the architect, May. |
| 1954 |
Library Board requests Etobicoke Township Council to issue debentures of $185,000 to build the library on Brentwood, May. |
| 1955 |
Main Library opens on 20 July and officially opens on 28 September. Etobicoke Public Library’s headquarters, including administration, technical services, and the bookmobile office, are transferred here from their former location in the Humber Bay Library building on Park Lawn Road. |
| 1961 |
Bookmobile office and storage are relocated to rented quarters at 4896 Dundas Street West, when a second bookmobile is purchased; they are moved to the new Richview Library in 1966. |
| 1964 |
Technical Services Division moved to offices on Dundas Street near Burnhamthorpe Road, moving to the new Richview Library in 1966. |
| 1966 |
Etobicoke Public Library’s main library and administrative offices are relocated to the new Richview Library, officially opened 16 October. Brentwood is reorganized as a district library. |
| 1970 |
Alterations by Dunlop, Wardell, Matsui and Aitken, architects engineers & planners. The old Technical Services area in the basement is converted into a reading room and an enclosed staircase is added to connect the new room with the reference area on the main floor. |
| 1971 |
Shut-In Service for Etobicoke Public Libraries is located here. |
| 1988 |
Closed for retrofit, 4 July. Joseph Gerskup, Architect. |
| 1989 |
Reopened 13 March. |
| 2007 |
New hours, 8 January. Hours open per week increased from 58 to 63. |
| 2010 |
Closed for major renovation and expansion by Diamond & Schmitt, Architects, 25 September. |
| 2012 |
Reopened, 2 November. Brentwood Branch history panel (PDF). |
