Celebrate the centennial
2024 marked 100 years of library service in the City of North Vancouver. We celebrated this milestone year with programming for all ages and a centennial cookbook with recipes from the community. Staff also chose their favourite books of the last century, and made them into booklists, which you can find below.
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Through the years
- 1924 — A library card cost $1 for a yearlong membership
- 1949 — Building moves to East 2nd Street
- 1966 — Library cards become free
- 1984 — Catalogue is digitized
- 1993 — Sunday openings added
- 2008 — Current building opened
- 2020 — Fines eliminated
Listen and read online
The Clan of the Cave Bear
A Novel
The Mystery of the Blue Train
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
V for Victory
A Novel
The Sign for Home
A Novel
Lessons in Chemistry
A Novel
The Historian
A Novel
The Golden Mean
A Novel
A Deadly Education
A Novel
Normal People
A Novel
Slaughterhouse-five, or The Children's Crusade
A Duty-dance With Death
A Little Life
A Novel
The Reading List
A Novel
The Fox Wife
A Novel
Glass Beads
Stories
The Sentence
A Novel
The Poisonwood Bible
A Novel
Moon of the Crusted Snow
A Novel
Quiet Teacher
A Xenon Pearl Martial Arts Thriller
The Bandit Queens
A Novel
A Boy of Good Breeding
A Novel
Time Travel in North Vancouver
A Peek Into the Past
At the Bridge
James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging
What Was Said to Me
The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, A Cowichan Woman
British Columbia
Land of Promises
East Side Story
Growing Up at the PNE
Stewards of Splendour
A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia
Go Do Some Great Thing
The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
Sheltering in the Backrush
A History of Twin Islands
Echoes Across Seymour
A History of North Vancouver's Eastern Communities Including Dollarton and Deep Cove
Where Mountains Meet the Sea
An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver
The Geography of Memory
Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People
On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
The Centennial Community Cookbook is here! Supplies are limited — grab your copy for $25 at the Welcome Desk.
Upcoming events
Early literacy
Circletime success: sensory friendly circletimes
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
General
North Shore Writers Festival: Literary Trivia hosted by Charlie Demers
Friday, April 10, 2026, 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
General
North Shore Writers Festival: Traditional Welcome from Tuyúsalanexw
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 10:00 am to 10:30 am
General
North Shore Writers Festival: Creative Writing 101 from Capilano University faculty
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 10:00 am to 11:30 am
General
North Shore Writers Festival: The Perils and Joys of Memoir Writing with Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho & Tara McGuire
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 11:45 am to 12:45 pm
General
North Shore Writers Festival: Lunchtime Writers' Café
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
General
North Shore Writers Festival: Between the Covers: Inside the World of Romance Novels
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 2:15 pm to 3:15 pm
General
North Shore Writers Festival: The Shape of Story: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
General
North Shore Writers Festival: Canuck of Many Crafts: Charlie Demers in discussion with Margaret Gallagher
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 4:45 pm to 5:45 pm
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead.
— Caitlin Moran
