{"id":86,"date":"2011-04-26T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T04:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2024-08-19T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:03:30","slug":"the-library","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/?page_id=86","title":{"rendered":"The Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisa Tooker Library is located at the most westerly end of Whaletown rd. It was built in 1926 as a shelter for those waiting for the steamship to arrive at the nearby dock. Later it was taken over by the Whaletown Women&#8217;s Institute. In 1958 The Whaletown Community Club became the caretaker of the library. It is run and organized by our amazing volunteers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/libr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/libr-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/libr-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/libr-600x358.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/libr-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/libr-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/libr.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/li.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/li-1024x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/li-1024x702.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/li-600x411.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/li-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/li-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/li.jpg 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The library as it stood in 1972. For more information on the Louisa Tooker Library please visit our friends at the Cortes Museum or follow this link to their page. <a href=\"https:\/\/cortesmuseum.com\/blog\/mrs-tookers-legacy\/\"><br><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">https:\/\/cortesmuseum.com\/blog\/mrs-tookers-legacy\/<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisa Tooker Library is located at the most westerly end of Whaletown rd. It was built in 1926 as a shelter for those waiting for the steamship to arrive at the nearby dock. Later it was taken over by the Whaletown Women&#8217;s Institute. In 1958 The Whaletown Community Club became the caretaker of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletowncommunityclub.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}