Canada: British Columbia: Saltspring Island: Ganges: Mary Hawkins Memorial Library

Mary Hawkins
New York City

Why I want to go to this place

I can’t believe that there’s a Mary Hawkins Memorial Library! I don’t know who my namesake/distant relative is, but I love that this exists… The building’s kinda cute too! I like that it’s a little blue house—it just wouldn’t do to have a big silly stone library with my name on it. I’m not Carnegie, you know?

I’d love to go here and get a library card with my name on it… Do you think they’d do that for me if I just contacted them outta the blue, or would that be too weird?

Comments:

Kim N
Austin

Neat!

I saw this in Wanderlust and clicked over to get the link to show you, but here you are the one who added it. ha!

Couldn’t hurt to ask for a library card. :)

Mary Hawkins
New York City

Isn't it cool?

I need to figure out where they are first… I only found the picture from that guy’s website.

Nawitka
Vancouver

I know

I know who Mary Hawkins was - she was my husband’s grandmother. She lived on Saltspring Island with her husband Stanley after they retired - and she started the library. The library started as a room in a house, and expanded several times. The roof sags in the winter if there is snow. A new one is planned next door now, bigger and better, and I don’t think it will be named after her. Better visit soon if you plan on going.

I’ve been there a few times—there are still a few people working there who remember Mary Hawkins, but she has been dead for many years.

http://saltspring.bclibrary.ca/about/library-history

Mary Hawkins
New York City

Oooh!

Thanks for filling me in! It’s good to know who she was…

Ooof—they really do need a new building. That site says that in some places the roof is held up by the bookshelves!


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