An incredible heritage building that feels dripping with scholarly ghosts and Victorian English uppercrusts. This impressive red stone building with it's large windows was founded in 1897 and is committed to providing a free space and access to books to the local community. It sits, stern but welcoming in its dry way, on Sherbrooke next to the lovely Westmount park, near the little pond full of skateboarders when empty of water, across the street from the Westmount YMCA, just down the block from that one little stretch of shopping and food and drinks before you hit NDG.
The religious studies collection here is quite good, and in general the history and literature collections have all been lovingly developed and maintained. There is a super sweet children's section on the lower level, and as many before me have mentionned: the greenhouse puts this library over the top into the lands of magical and 5 stars.