A Village Library in Canada

There are people no further away than the mid‐western cities of the United States who will express real surprise when told that Canadians do not spend most of the year dressed like Eskimos, padding around on snowshoes. I have an American friend who shamefacedly admits that when his firm moved him up to Canada, he arranged with his local bookseller to keep him supplied with certain magazines and books. How surprised he must have been to find, not only a plentiful supply of American, English and even some European magazines but also a comprehensive public library system.