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The privatization of healthcare and the Trojan Horse

I was at a protest in Almonte...

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The Friends of Mississippi Mills Public Library end 2024 with a bang

The Friends of Mississippi Mills Public Library have had our best year ever.  All our fundraisers were successful, and we were able to give the library a total of...

The Good Allies by Tim Cook

by Edith Cody-Rice  Tim Cook’s newly published book,The Good Allies, joins his many excellent accounts of Canada at war, principally concerning the first and second world wars but extending to...

Proof by Beverley McLachlin

by Edith Cody-Rice     Jilly Truitt is back!! Former Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin has just released a third novel in her Jilly Truitt series. It is a page turner....

Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brebeuf and the Destruction of Huronia by Mark Bourrie

by Edith Cody-Rice This is a serious book and a relatively heavy read but a fascinating and engrossing tale. Most of us have heard of Jean...

Great Small Towns of Ontario by Richard Peddie

by Edith Cody-Rice  This is a book that needed to be written.In his introduction, the author Richard Peddie notes that although there are many books...

delve – In close conversation with Margaret Macpherson, June 12

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 6:30 p.m. at Equator Coffee Roasters, 451 Ottawa Street Admission Pay-what-you-can via Tickets Please Don't miss this important conversation with Margaret Macpherson, author, teacher of...

Tracking the Caribou Queen by Margaret Macpherson

by Edith Cody-Rice An historian at Carleton University once told me that a problem for Canada's historians is that there are not enough people keeping personal...

Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest by Doctors Winemaker and Hsien

by Edith Cody-Rice   Hope for the Best Plan for the Rest was written by two Canadian palliative care doctors who have ushered thousands of patients...

Almonte Readers and Writers hosts award winning poets

by Edith Cody-Rice Last Thursday evening, April 11, Almonte Readers and Writers hosted an enthusiastic audience of poetry lovers at Equator Coffee in celebration of...

MMPL year in review

We've had this update from the library.

Sudden Impact: The Almonte Train Wreck of 1942

by Edith Cody-Rice   Many Almontonians will be aware of the memorial plaques at the intersection of Mill and Bridge Street commenorating the great train crash...

Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid

by Edith Cody-Rice Many Almonte residents will be surprised to hear that the First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid, was raised in the nearby village...

‘Not My Kind of Mennonite’ author visits Almonte

This week, Ontario author Maria Moore gave an eye-opening talk about her family’s experience as Mexican Mennonites for The Covergirls Book Club in Almonte. She...

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons by Charlotte Gray

by Edith Cody-Rice  Once you grasp the subject of this book, you wonder, "Why didn't anyone think of this before?". Charlotte Gray, the beloved chronicler...

Book review: ‘The History of Pakenham’ by Robert Gardiner

I just finished reading Robert Gardiner's first book, The History of Pakenham.  I say "first" because I believe that Robert is going to grace...

Paper Trails by Roy MacGregor

by Edith Cody-Rice The late great Canadian journalist, broadcaster, editor and public intellectual Keith Spicer once said when asked about his memoir Life Sentences: Memoirs...

“My Mississippi Mills” public art project

“My Mississippi Mills” public art project reflects the entire community and is on display at both library branches The library community art project brings people...

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