A Magnet Pulling Us East

Our journey to the Ottawa Public Library began ten years ago when our daughter moved to the city to attend the University of Ottawa. We encouraged her to get an OPL library card because students need to be able to read for pleasure while studying as well.

About five years later we heard about Adisoke being built. Interestingly enough we had just visited Halifax and were so impressed with their library that we vowed if we ever moved from our home in central Ontario it would have to be to a city with a library like Halifax. We watched the updates on CTV news and got very excited about the new library, the consultations, collaborations with Indigenous communities and the vision of a learning space for the city.

Then this past year we moved to Ottawa and we now live on Lebreton Flats with an amazing view of Adisoke out our condo window.

So the magnet did its job, drawing us east to Ottawa and to Lebreton Flats and to Adisoke.

We can't wait for it to open.