Now & then: Celebrating 75 years of the Sunnyside Library
This past January marked the 75th anniversary of the Sunnyside branch opening our doors at the intersection of Bank Street and Echo Drive. Of course, the history of this branch spans back much further. In the 1906 annual report from then-Chief Librarian, Lawrence Burpee, he called for an Ottawa Public Library branch to be established in Ottawa South (as it was known as pre-amalgamation). It would take several more calls until a modest book…