Friends House Library
The Library will be open to the public for browsing at the following times:
Monday – Friday: from 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Saturday: open by appointment
Sunday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Toronto Monthly Meeting Library collection serves as a resource for Toronto Monthly Meeting and Canadian Yearly Meeting members and attenders. Members of the public may be interested to view books, journals and pamphlets on Quakerism and Quaker history. Our small collection is shelved according to the Dewey Decimal system. Currently, you can look library materials up by title, author and subject in a card catalog as well as in the online catalog: www.tmm.xxvii.net.
Library staff are volunteers and not always available. If you need help with your research, please provide details by email. We may be able to direct you to a more convenient alternative source. Otherwise, you can schedule an appointment by emailing the library at Torontoquakermeetinglibrary@gmail.com
For genealogical research, please consult:
the Canadian Quaker Archives https://quaker.ca/archives/
the Canadian Friends Historical Association www.cfha.info/
or www.ancestry.ca
Monday – Friday: from 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Saturday: open by appointment
Sunday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Toronto Monthly Meeting Library collection serves as a resource for Toronto Monthly Meeting and Canadian Yearly Meeting members and attenders. Members of the public may be interested to view books, journals and pamphlets on Quakerism and Quaker history. Our small collection is shelved according to the Dewey Decimal system. Currently, you can look library materials up by title, author and subject in a card catalog as well as in the online catalog: www.tmm.xxvii.net.
Library staff are volunteers and not always available. If you need help with your research, please provide details by email. We may be able to direct you to a more convenient alternative source. Otherwise, you can schedule an appointment by emailing the library at Torontoquakermeetinglibrary@gmail.com
For genealogical research, please consult:
the Canadian Quaker Archives https://quaker.ca/archives/
the Canadian Friends Historical Association www.cfha.info/
or www.ancestry.ca
Borrowing procedure
Members and attenders of Toronto Monthly Meeting and Canadian Yearly Meeting may sign out books, using the pocket card found inside each book.
If you are not listed in the Meeting’s directory and are here for the first time, please print clearly, your name, address, email and phone in the library register book on the desk. Leave the book card in the box provided for this purpose and replace it with a date due card as a reminder to bring the book back in one month.
When returning the book, please put it in the returns box on top of the library desk.
Members and attenders of Toronto Monthly Meeting and Canadian Yearly Meeting may sign out books, using the pocket card found inside each book.
If you are not listed in the Meeting’s directory and are here for the first time, please print clearly, your name, address, email and phone in the library register book on the desk. Leave the book card in the box provided for this purpose and replace it with a date due card as a reminder to bring the book back in one month.
When returning the book, please put it in the returns box on top of the library desk.