Open Mid-May until Mid-October

Who doesn’t enjoy a good book? We have discovered that a lot of people enjoy borrowing a book or sharing a book at the Little Free Library situated across the road from our LYU House, overlooking the beautiful Trent Severn Canal.

There are 25,000 Little Free Libraries registered all over the world, and Mary Marsden initiated setting up four in the community of Lakefield. Chris Jones and a wood working volunteer designed and installed the library with the help of two local volunteers. The library contains three shelves of books and a bulletin board for community and LYU advertising. LYU keeps two shelves of the library stocked with good quality reading and Christian stories from May until Thanksgiving. The library is used by both locals and touring boaters (as they walk from the canal locks into the village).

Also placed beside the library are a memorial bench and two plaques in memory of Dylan Gammon and Matt Cournyea. These two young men are greatly missed in our community.