After a teenaged neighbor made a high profile appeal, residents and friends of Montreal\’s South Shore Mohawk Reserve have begun to build a library from scratch:
Piled more than two metres high in the centre and neatly stacked against the walls, boxes upon boxes of books take up half the space in a basement room of the Kahnawake Peacekeeper Station . . .
The familiar and the obscure are among the titles uppermost on the stacks. Bernard Shaw\’s Pygmalion rubs shoulders with a history of Cambodia in the 1970s and comedian Rita Rudner\’s Tickled Pink is tucked next to a book of classic Canadian recipes . . .
In the year ahead . . . a committee of volunteers plan to get a temporary library up and running in a tiny stone building steps from the Catholic church on the reserve.
Complete story via Canada.com. More information about the library is available here.
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