Toronto Reference Library
Hours: Monday–Saturday 9:00am–8:30pm, Sunday 1:30pm–5:00pm
Location: 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4W 2G8
Telephone: 416-395-5577
Website address: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/
The Toronto Reference Library is the central location of the Toronto Public Library. It holds the Urban Affairs collections taken over from Toronto City Hall in 2011. The microfilmed Special Collections, located on the 4th floor, include: periodicals, such as the Canada Health Journal, Public Health Magazine, the Journal d’hygiène populaire, the Canadian Journal of Public Health, and the American Journal of Public Health; historical publications of the Canadian Red Cross Society; a selection of federal and provincial medical association journals and lectures; local, regional, and provincial board of public health publications; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English-language writings on the history of medicine and homeopathy (Anglo-Canadian and Aboriginal), the professionalization of medicine, urban planning, and public health; histories and retrospects of the foundations of Canadian medical schools; a selection of veterinary medicine handbooks and journals; the writings of Dr. William Osler; portraits of Dr. William Harvey; and printed ephemera on a variety of subjects, located in the Baldwin Room.