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Black and white photograph of the NS&T (Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto) Railway near the fairgrounds, Oct. 6, 1909, with people getting off to go to the fairgrounds.

Black and white photograph of the new Vocational School building at Welland High, c. 1930. It was built during 1929 and 1930, and formally opened on October 22, 1930.

On page 36 of "The History and Development of Welland High and Vocational School…

We've explored the history of WPL in the 1800s, now we move onto the 1900s!
In 1910, the first consideration and negotiation for a Carnegie Library began. In 1921, The Carnegie Foundation promised the City of Welland $20,000 to provide a Free Public…

Black and white photograph of the library inside Welland High & Vocational School, c. 1930.

Black and white photograph of the last minister of Union Church in Effingham, posing in front of the bridge to the church, undated.

An article from the 1922/03/14 edition of The Welland Tribune, discussing the opening of the new Lambert Building, which housed the Reeta Hotel and Lambert Theatre. It occupied the location on East Main Street where the current Welland Civic Square…

Two colour slides showing the laker Heron Bay of Montreal passing south through the Welland Canal, as seen from Merritt Park, April 1972.

Complete scanned copy of the short work "The Journey of the Printing Press across Canada", written by eminent Welland scholar Louis Blake Duff, c. 1937.

A brief textual account describing Japanese culture and heritage in Welland.

This is a chapter from the book "A brief history of the Ukrainians, Greeks, Japanese, Anglo-Saxons and Poles in Welland" by the Welland Heritage Council, c. 1978.

In December 1998, WPL had added two new Internet workstations open in the Reference Department.
As a key information finding tool, this service allowed for free unfiltered access to Welland Library card holders.
By 1999, the library began…