This site from Library and Archives Canada features stories from the First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities

An explanation of the Prime Minister's role in Canadian politics.

A searchable, online dictionary of well-known Canadians.

A searchable, online encyclopedia of well-known and lesser-known Canadian biographies.

60 years ago in March, 1952, the Policy and Personnel Committee of the London Public Library Board made the following recommendation:

that commissionaries be appointed and installed at a desk in the main lobby [of the Central Library]:

a.  to check all outgoing books, films, parcels, pictures. records, etc, to avoid losses and borrowing books without charging them [out]

b.  to act as building directors

c.  to check on undesirable transients in lobby and library divisions

d.  to check bags, parcels, etc.

London Room Local History and Genealogy Research Service

There is no charge for staff assistance for,

• factual information that can be answered in less than 5 minutes using a single source
• a maximum of 3 London city directory or telephone book answers

Information requests that involve a systematic investigation using our resources will have a charge levied. A charge will be incured whether or not an answer is found.

London Room staff will handle the questions in the order in which they are received.