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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 reflects the entire community and is on display at both library branches
The library community art project brings people...