Library Bicentennial Dinner Invitations and 'Thank You' Cards; Dec. 1999 - Jan. 2000

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Your generous gift to the building fund of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library will benefit our community for years to come.
Thank you

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For Support This Evening
The Library Warmly Thanks
Vintage Inns
Mackenzie Heritage Printery
Stonechurch Winery
Silent Auction Donors

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Once Upon Two Hundred Years
Celebrating the Bicentennial Year of
The Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library

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Established 1800
Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library
Box 430, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario L0S 1J0

December 11, 1999

The Hon. Helen Johns
Minister
Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation
400 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M7A 2R9

Dear Minister;

The year 2000 is fast approaching and most Ontarians will find the dawn of the new millenium reason enough for festivity. The community of Niagara-on-the-Lake will have even more reason to celebrate as the year 2000 will mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the first public library in Upper Canada in the settlement known then as Newark. Out library will be the first public library in Canada to celebrate a Bicentennial.

We are planning a year long schedule of special events, but none will be more important than the gala evening planned for January 29, 2000. The Premier of Ontario has been invited to be our special guest for this evening and we would also like to invite you to be a special guest for this occasion.

The theme for this evening will be Once Upon 200 Years and a 6pm symposium will be followed by a Call to Victuals (1800 style) at 7pm. Following dinner and greetings, a re-enactment of the meeting at which the library was founded will be staged and will include this stirring declaration as recorded in the first record book:

"Sensible how much we are at a loss in this new and remote country for every kind of useful knowledge, and convinced that nothing would be of more use to diffuse knowledge amongst us and our offspring that a library supported by subscription in this town; we whose names are hereunto subscribed hereby associate ourselves together for that purpose ...."

We know that the founding 200 years ago of this first ever public library in Upper Canada had great import and significance for all that followed after. We feel that it is cause for great celebration and nothing would make the occasion more significant than your presence amongst us as we acknowledge the debt and foresight we owe to our ancestors.

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We sincerely hope that your busy schedule will allow you to find the time to be our honoured guest for this commemorative celebration of a very important event in this history and evolution of Ontario.

Yours sincerely;

Amalie Enns, Chairman
Niagara-on-the-lake Public Library Board

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Established 1800
Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library
Box 430, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario L0S 1J0

December 11, 1999

Lorraine McQueen
President
Canadian Library Association
200 Elgin Street, Suite 602
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 1L5

Dear Ms. McQueen;

The year 2000 is fast approaching and most Ontarians will find the dawn of the new millenium reason enough for festivity. The community of Niagara-on-the-Lake will have even more reason to celebrate as the year 2000 will mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the first public library in Upper Canada in the settlement known then as Newark. Out library will be the first public library in Canada to celebrate a Bicentennial.

We are planning a year long schedule of special events, but none will be more important than the gala evening planned for January 29, 2000. The Premier of Ontario has been invited to be our special guest for this evening and we would also like to invite you to be a special guest for this occasion.

The theme for this evening will be Once Upon 200 Years and a 6pm symposium will be followed by a Call to Victuals (1800 style) at 7pm. Following dinner and greetings, a re-enactment of the meeting at which the library was founded will be staged and will include this stirring declaration as recorded in the first record book:

"Sensible how much we are at a loss in this new and remote country for every kind of useful knowledge, and convinced that nothing would be of more use to diffuse knowledge amongst us and our offspring that a library supported by subscription in this town; we whose names are hereunto subscribed hereby associate ourselves together for that purpose ...."

We know that the founding 200 years ago of this first ever public library in Upper Canada had great import and significance for all that followed after. We feel that it is cause for great celebration and nothing would make the occasion more significant than your presence amongst us as we acknowledge the debt and foresight we owe to our ancestors.

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We sincerely hope that your busy schedule will allow you to find the time to be our honoured guest for this commemorative celebration of a very important event in this history and evolution of Ontario.

Yours sincerely;

Amalie Enns, Chairman
Niagara-on-the-lake Public Library Board

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Established 1800
Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library
Box 430, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario L0S 1J0

December 11, 1999

Roch Carrier
National Librarian of Canada
National Library
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A ON4

Dear Mr. Carrier;

The year 2000 is fast approaching and most Ontarians will find the dawn of the new millenium reason enough for festivity. The community of Niagara-on-the-Lake will have even more reason to celebrate as the year 2000 will mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the first public library in Upper Canada in the settlement known then as Newark. Out library will be the first public library in Canada to celebrate a Bicentennial.

We are planning a year long schedule of special events, but none will be more important than the gala evening planned for January 29, 2000. The Premier of Ontario has been invited to be our special guest for this evening and we would also like to invite you to be a special guest for this occasion.

The theme for this evening will be Once Upon 200 Years and a 6pm symposium will be followed by a Call to Victuals (1800 style) at 7pm. Following dinner and greetings, a re-enactment of the meeting at which the library was founded will be staged and will include this stirring declaration as recorded in the first record book:

"Sensible how much we are at a loss in this new and remote country for every kind of useful knowledge, and convinced that nothing would be of more use to diffuse knowledge amongst us and our offspring that a library supported by subscription in this town; we whose names are hereunto subscribed hereby associate ourselves together for that purpose ...."

We know that the founding 200 years ago of this first ever public library in Upper Canada had great import and significance for all that followed after. We feel that it is cause for great celebration and nothing would make the occasion more significant than your presence amongst us as we acknowledge the debt and foresight we owe to our ancestors.

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We sincerely hope that your busy schedule will allow you to find the time to be our honoured guest for this commemorative celebration of a very important event in this history and evolution of Ontario.

Yours sincerely;

Amalie Enns, Chairman
Niagara-on-the-lake Public Library Board

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Established 1800
Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library
Box 430, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario L0S 1J0

December 11, 1999

Elizabeth Hoffman
President
Ontario Library Association
100 Lombard Street, Suite 303
Toronto, Ontario
M5C 1M3

Dear Ms. Hoffman;

The year 2000 is fast approaching and most Ontarians will find the dawn of the new millenium reason enough for festivity. The community of Niagara-on-the-Lake will have even more reason to celebrate as the year 2000 will mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the first public library in Upper Canada in the settlement known then as Newark. Out library will be the first public library in Canada to celebrate a Bicentennial.

We are planning a year long schedule of special events, but none will be more important than the gala evening planned for January 29, 2000. The Premier of Ontario has been invited to be our special guest for this evening and we would also like to invite you to be a special guest for this occasion.

The theme for this evening will be Once Upon 200 Years and a 6pm symposium will be followed by a Call to Victuals (1800 style) at 7pm. Following dinner and greetings, a re-enactment of the meeting at which the library was founded will be staged and will include this stirring declaration as recorded in the first record book:

"Sensible how much we are at a loss in this new and remote country for every kind of useful knowledge, and convinced that nothing would be of more use to diffuse knowledge amongst us and our offspring that a library supported by subscription in this town; we whose names are hereunto subscribed hereby associate ourselves together for that purpose ...."

We know that the founding 200 years ago of this first ever public library in Upper Canada had great import and significance for all that followed after. We feel that it is cause for great celebration and nothing would make the occasion more significant than your presence amongst us as we acknowledge the debt and foresight we owe to our ancestors.

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We sincerely hope that your busy schedule will allow you to find the time to be our honoured guest for this commemorative celebration of a very important event in this history and evolution of Ontario.

Yours sincerely;

Amalie Enns, Chairman
Niagara-on-the-lake Public Library Board