THE GRAND opening of the
Terrace Public Library is schedul-
ed for Saturday, September 9 at
noon. Everyone is invited to
come down and sce the beautiful
new expansion,

‘So for this week, I would like to -

tell you how Terrace’ 5 library
first began. |

* Mrs. Kate Braun (of Braun’ 8 Is-
land) was the first person to feel
that Terrace needed a library, and
decided to do something about it.
She was a real estate lady who
came from New York.

‘Mrs, Braun approached : Mrs.

Cassie Hall, whom after Cassie
Hall Elementary is named, and
requested her assistance,
- For two weeks they worked to-
gether then Mrs, Braun, being
satisfied that all was well, left the
next 16 years of work to Mrs.
Hall,

The first Terrace library then

began i in approximately 1929 and
_ the original books were the prop-
erty of the Canadian Legion. The
library room was actually located
in their Great War Veterans Hall
on Lakelse Ave., which today is
now Wilkinson Business Ma-
~ chines. :

Added to “the Legion’ s books
was a supply, of books from the
provincial library. These books
were exchanged twice a year..

After a few years of operation,
Ms. Hull ‘decided to, form’ a li-
brary board: 7

- Mrs. Arthur Carr, Mr. Ralph
Cory and. ‘Mrs. Geoff. Hamlin °
were the first) members of the
boird,

. Library board members ‘held a
tea each year to help raise funds
to purchase new books.

* During the Depression, the 1i-
brary had to be moved from the
Legion hall. because the Legion
was forced to close the building
around 1936.:. ©

So Mrs. Hall moved the library-
collection over to: the old police
stalion at the corner of Lakelse
and Kalum. |;

Those were well guarded
books, with the police in. one
comer of the building and the li-
brary in the other corner.-

The library was..only there
around two years. From the po-
lice building the library moved to
the: little fire hall next door to the
village’ offices::~ vate

Because this ‘building ‘was not

sainelen

winterized, the library could only .

operate during the summer and
fall.

_ Mrs. Hall still was not satisfied
with this arrangement, so she
talked to Bert Swain about using.
a room upstairs in his new build-
ing on the comer of Kahin and
Park Ave.

’ Mrs. Hall operated her library
‘upstairs in this litde room with a
window look out over Kalum St,
an old wood stove for heat and a
few chairs,

Membership cost 2s cents for .
three months and although the li-
brary was only open Saturdays, it
was a busy place,

At the time Terrace’s popula-
tion was about 500 people.

Cassie Hall ran the library here
until Mr. Swain: died, and the
building was bought by Harold

Smith. He wanted the upstairs to.

YVONNE MOEN. |

be converted to roams for rent, so
Mrs. Hall was forced to close the
doors to Terrace’s first library in
1945,

For 16 years, she gave the Ter-
race and area citizens access to a
library. .

But she didn’t close down oper-
ations entirely, She kept a book
collection alive in the old city ball
building, where the Happy Gang
Centre is today.

Today, we think back on Mrs,
Cassie Hall ‘as- the founding

mother of Terrace’s first library:

For a number of years after she

brary, Terrace went. without a fi-

_ brary.

Then in 1952, a group of
citizens met to discuss establish-

aa ing a librarys © ,
Mr, Len. Leighton chaired. the a
meeting which was. attended by

Mr. C.K. Morison, superintendent
of the Public Library Commission
in Victoria.

In April, 1953, the Terrace Li-
brary officialiy: opened in the
provincial government building
with a public ceremony.

‘closed: the door on that first li- .-

Terrace became the eighth

member of ihe North Central Li-

brary Association, which had ac- .

cess to 10,000 books...

The new library board consisted
of chairman Len Leighton, secre-
tary Mrs. H. Harper., treasurer
Mrs. Mien Van Heek, ‘and
Reverend A.C. Dukelow, V. Har-
per and W.J. Havelaar.

By 1959 the, library had grown
to such an extent that the need for
more space was imperative.

Board members were promised
space in the new civic centre, but

‘Instead the library moved in
1960 to the old municipal build-

‘ing north of the police stalion on

Kalum St.

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.ibrary began back in 1929

It remained there until the final
move to the present® site in
George Little Park, on Tuly ],
1967.

Prior to the move; Mrs. Mien

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