Schedule:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.; 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Thursday: 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Friday: Closed
Saturday: 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: Closed
Services: Free internet access; free WIFI; fax*; printing*; photocopying*; document and picture scanning; inter-library loans.
Services marked with (*) indicates a small fee for service.
Inquiries & Contact:
Doreen Quinn, Librarian
t: (709) 596-3894
Mailing Address:
PO Box 40
106 Harvey St
Harbour Grace, NL A0A 2M0
War Memorial Public Library Website
War Memorial Public Library Facebook
Harbour Grace Seed Library & Exchange Project
The Harbour Grace Seed Library & Exchange program is a partnership between the War Memorial Public Library and our local community garden. You don’t have to be a community garden member to take advantage of this program – all you need is a Newfoundland & Labrador Public Library Card!
And the best part? It’s free!
Sign up at our local library, get a loan of some seeds, return what you don’t use, and donate seeds from your own collection! (And maybe check out a gardening resource or recent bestseller, too?) Once the library’s seed collection is exhausted for the season, it’s gone! However, you can save seeds you grow and return them to the library for next year’s crop.
We hope this outreach project will introduce our community to gardening, food sustainability and public literacy programs in new ways.
Happy gardening!
Location:
GPS Coordinates: 47.692603, -53.221776
Street Address: 106 Harvey St, Harbour Grace, NL
History of the Harbour Grace Public Library
In 1818 Newfoundand’s first public library was established at Harbour Grace.
In 1939 Harbour Grace’s Literary Institute housed the town’s public library. Tragically, the Institute was among the wreckage of Harbour Grace’s third great fire on August 17, 1944; the fire razed most of the Water Street district, including the library and its collection of rare materials.
In 1946 Harbour Grace joined the regional library under Bishop J. M. O’Neill. Through the leadership of T. Jack Watts, then chairman and Harbour Grace’s deputy mayor, plans were made to erect a new concrete building, to expand the library’s services. With the help of a fundraiser at the 1947 Fall Fair, enough money was raised for a new building; most of the Fair’s revenue funded this new initiative. The final cost of construction was $10,000.
In 1952 the new library was opened, on land on which the former St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (“The Kirk”) once stood, from 1855 – 1940. Notably, this land once belonged to prominent Harbour Grace merchant John Munn, who donated it to the Presbyterian church. The St. Andrew’s Board of Trustees were responsible for this generous donation.
Named the War Memorial Public Library, the building stands as a fitting memorial to those who served and sacrificed in World Wars I & II.
