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Weyburn, Saskatchewan, (Fighting for) Library Service, 1905 – 1930.
by Kam W. Teo
Adventures in Canadian Library History
Library History Network, Winnipeg, 1 June 2013
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Outline (Part I)
The Creation of Library Service in Weyburn: 1905-1919
• Mechanics’ and Literary Institutes.
• Saskatchewan’s Establishment of Free Libraries Legislation.
• Population and economic boom (1900 – 1920).
• Mr. A. Kennedy (founder), City Hall (1914) and the Great War (1914-1918).
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Outline (Part II)
Weyburn Public Library: the first decade (1920-1930)
• Library board (and board responsibilities).
• First librarian.
• Relationship with City Hall and the province.
• Library policies, promotion, memberships, circulation.
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Outline Part III
• Research Challenges & Conclusions
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Part IWeyburn Mechanics’ and Literary Institute 1906-
1911? (located in Assiniboia School)
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The Creation of Library Service in Weyburn: 1905-1919
• Mechanics’ and Literary Institutes began in Great Britain in the early 19th century in order to educate “young working men and promoting their moral and social improvement.”
• Originally, meant for “working class young men” over time Mechanics’ Institutes became organizations of (and for) establishment figures in communities throughout Canada.
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Legislation – Northwest Territories (Future provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta)
(1890)
In order to create a Mechanics’ and Literary Institute:
• A minimum of 30 men to pay a dollar; (during an era when the average worker earned $375 a year)
• Have evening classes to instruct “students”;
• Establishment of a reading room. (a club that does not lend library books)
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Weyburn Mechanics’ and Literary Institute (1905)
• Originally located in a public school, some of its original dues paying members included the mayor, local MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly), and a lawyer.
• Newspapers and magazines included: Toronto Daily Globe, Manitoba Free Press, Strand, and Illustrated London News.
• Open Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 4 – 6 pm.
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Saskatchewan: Establishment of Free Libraries (1906)
• Public libraries to be created by a petition of 10 percent of municipal residents followed by a by-law supported by 60 percent of qualified voters.
• A library board (appointed by a municipality) responsible for submitting a budget, buying materials, and maintaining the library.
• Library to be maintained by an annual levy with material expenditures to be matched by the province.
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Weyburn and southeastern Saskatchewan
• In 1901 Weyburn (became a city in 1913) had a population of 113 grew to 2,210 a decade later.
• Saskatchewan became a province in 1905. • From 1896 to 1914, 600,000 Americans entered
what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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• Courtesy of promotion of cheap land which was part of the immigration policy of the Laurier government to recruit European and American immigrants to the prairies.
• Immigrants from Europe or the US arrived via the Soo Line railway that begins in St. Paul, Minnesota, going through Estevan, SK., Weyburn and Moose Jaw.
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A. Kennedy (founder of WPL)
• Mr. A. Kennedy was a superintendent of public schools in Weyburn including the school that housed the Weyburn MLI.
• Told (in 1911) by town officials that the there would not be a public library unless there was a new City Hall.
• In 1914, the teacher became a founding member of the original Saskatchewan Library Association and applied for Carnegie funding (which fell through).
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Carnegie Library
• US industrialist Andrew Carnegie believed that public officials needed both (private sector) financial incentive and popular sentiment to push for govt. funding of libraries.
• Incentive offered: a library building to communities contingent on localities’ ability to maintain a library with public funds.
• Branch of Regina Public Library (1912)• North Battleford Public Library (1917)
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1914-1919
• There was no correspondence available from 1914-1918, (Saskatchewan Archives Board) which lead to my conclusion that the Great War got in the way of building a library in Weyburn.
• In 1919, A. Kennedy placed pressure on both the City of Weyburn and the province with the latter promising a provincial grant for a library.
• Weyburn Public Library created in January 1920.
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Additional context for the creation of the Weyburn Public Library (and public libraries generally in SK):
• In 1901, the literacy rate in what became SK was 65 percent; by 1921, this had risen to 87 per cent.
• Women fought for right to vote in Saskatchewan in 1916.
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Part II: Old Weyburn City Hall (1914-2002)Weyburn Public Library on 2nd floor (1920-
1964)
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Weyburn Public Library: the first decade (1920-1930)
• Initially a reading room only and not a circulation library.
• Caretaker at City Hall hired to “supervise” the library at $15 per month.
• Contrast: board agreed to spend $175.00 for the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
• Budget for 1921 for materials was $1,000.
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• Foundation of WPL collection came from the Weyburn Mechanics’ Literary Institute.
• Magazines bought included:
• Ladies’ Home Journal• Country Gentleman• Popular Plant Engineering• Library Journal
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Board members (1920)
• W. J. Jolly (chair 1921-1929)• Muriel Miller (secretary-treasurer and spouse of a
lawyer)
• A.W. Massey (school principal)• John Marshall (school principal)
• Book & finance committee:• A. Kennedy (founder of WPL & supervisor of
Weyburn area schools & board member in 1925)
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Board Responsibilities
• Selected by and reported to Weyburn city council.
• Oversight of finance and book committee.
• Purview of the board to handle correspondence (grant applications) dealing with financial issues throughout the 1920s.
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1923
• John Henry Leggott, first librarian. (with previous experience at the library of the Saskatchewan legislature and was, perhaps, in his 70s).
• Weyburn Public Library becomes a lending library.
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Paternalistic promotion of the Weyburn Public Library
Every intelligent person readily admits that a good library is one of the great assets any community can possess . . . [and that society’s] intellectual and moral progress is largely dependent on the use we make of good books.
Context of the times: ALA report from the 1920s stated that public libraries should be centres of “community intelligence service” and that staff should have a “college teacher’s familiarity with the literature.”
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Asking for donations!
while grateful to those who have generously responded to the appeal [for book donations the library board] ventures to hope that a considerable portion of the citizens will evince their interest in this movement. . . .
Women were more involved in starting libraries in SK with members of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE) being the most prominent organization pushing for libraries.
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• Throughout the early 1920s donations in the form of cash or second hand books came from:
• Rotary Club• Young Fellows’ Club• Women’s Christian Temperance Union• Knox Presbyterian Church• IODE• Weyburn Security Bank
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Library policies of the 1920s
• Weyburn residents had to pay initial fee of 10 cents for membership plus five cents annually to renew that membership.
• Non-residents had to pay a two dollar refundable deposit to use the library.
• Formal woman’s dress and formal shoes can be bought with two dollars.
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Library Open Hours (mid -20s)
• Newspaper room 10 am to 10 pm Monday to Saturday
• Reference Room 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm (Monday to Saturday)
Tuesday & Friday evenings 7:30 – 9:30
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• All borrowing customers had to be fourteen years of age or older.
• Books could be borrowed for 14 days with special “seven day books” to be designated by the librarian.
• Fines for overdue books: two cents per day up to a maximum of fifty cents.
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Historical (and literary) tie-ins from Weyburn and establishment figures to add colour and context to
paper.
Here was the least common denominator of nature, the skeleton requirements simply, of land and sky – Saskatchewan prairie. . . . It [Weyburn] was made up largely of frame buildings with high peaked roofs . . .
We were all headed for the Little Souris [River] for our first swim of the year. Naked, of course, and watched by several outpatients from the provincial mental hospital just upstream from our swimming hole.
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W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998)
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Weyburn Mental HospitalBuilt in 1920 (ca. 1940s)
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Library Board (and Weyburn establishment)
• In 1925, board chair, W. J. Jolly, ran for the federal liberal nomination for MP.
• Jolly lost, but if he had won he would’ve run against conservative Thomas Hilliar, the spouse of board member, Grace Hilliar.
• Secretary-Treasurer of the board, Muriel Miller, was also married to M.A. Miller, executive member of the liberal party in the area.
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other establishment figures that were board members
• H.O. Powell (mid-1920s) founder and director of the only bank founded in SK (in Weyburn).
• R.M. Mitchell, director of the Mental Hospital, city councillor, former speaker of the legislature and MLA.
• And they all went to the same church. . . .
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Knox Presbyterian Church
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Grace Hilliar (ca. 1910s) & H.O. Powell (ca. 1940s)
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Population
Weyburn Estevan Moose Jaw Regina
1901 113 181 1,158 2,249
1911 2,210 1,981 13,823 30,213
1921 3,193 2,290 19,285 34,432
1931 5,002 2,936 21,299 54,209
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Membership Numbers
1924 – library had 439 members.
1926 – library had 1,171 members.
1928 & 1929 – library had “approximately” 800 members.
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Circulation Numbers
• 1926 – 12,662 books borrowed.
• 1927 – 11,434 books borrowed.
• 1928 – 12, 343 books borrowed.
• 1929 – “over 13,000 books” were borrowed.
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Number of books in the WPL
• 1924 – 1,666
• 1927 - 2,605
• 1928 – 2,800 fiction; 200 non-fiction
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Research Challenges & Conclusions
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Research Challenges
• Microfilm of the Weyburn Review (founded in 1908) only available from 1920 onwards.
• Could only read headlines from 1923-1924 Weyburn Review (important formative years)
• Greatest number of documents at SK Archive Board were from the early 1920s.
• Correspondence in the library only goes back to 1960.
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Saskatchewan Archives Board
• Created in 1945 by the government of Tommy Douglas.
• Before leaving office in 1944 the Patterson government culled materials from the legislative library (original archives). Historians and other researchers have noted the gaps in government documents from the 1930s.
• Today, research @ SAB now limited to Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
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• From 1925-1930, except for annual reports and a rare event, Weyburn Review no longer reported on the Weyburn Public Library.
• Great dependence on board minutes.
• This evidence (or lack thereof) meant that the library was no longer in danger as a public institution.
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Conclusion
In the 1920s, library survives with the library board working closely:
• Weyburn, province, and (donations) local partners.
• Improved relations with city and province coincides with economic (and population) growth.
• Library board and librarian promoted library use and asked for donations of money and books (via the Weyburn Review).
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Questions? Comments?