e/The Fraser-Hickson Library

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has gloss	eng: The Fraser-Hickson Institute is a private library that had provided free library services to the Montreal community. When the Fraser-Hickson Library first opened its doors in 1885, there were no other public libraries in Montreal. Perhaps this is what inspired local businessman Hugh Fraser to leave some $200,000 in 1870 to set up a library whose purpose, in the words of his will, was “the diffusion of knowledge by affording free access to all desiring it.” For more than 70 years the Library operated out of a building known as Burnside Hall at the corner of University Street and Dorchester Boulevard. Then, in 1956, the Library received an extraordinary bequest of $1 million from Montreal professor J.W.A. Hickson. Three years later, the Library moved into a large building of its own design on Kensington Avenue in NDG. Due to financial constraints, the Institute realized by October of 2006 that it would have to sell this large property which was expensive to maintain. The Board began looking for a new site and a buyer for the Kensington Avenue property.
lexicalization	eng: The Fraser-Hickson Library
instance of	c/Libraries in Montreal