276 chemin Knowlton Road
Knowlton, QC, Canada
J0E 1V0
Established in 1894, the oldest free rural library in the Province of Quebec.
Books in English and in French
On March 7th 1894, Mrs. Narcissa Farrand Pettes instructed that a formal deed be drawn up making a donation of the library to the Trustees whom she had appointed. The Deed stated that the purpose of the library was ” The improvement and advancement intellectually and morally of her fellow citizens, and to that end she has during the past year caused to be erected in the said village of Knowlton, a building known as the Pettes Memorial, which forever hereafter is to be destined for a free public library, with useful adjuncts of reading and conversation rooms (sic) to be open to all honest and respectful persons whomsoever, of every rank and condition in life, for the diffusion of useful knowledge”.