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14 May 1761: The Halifax Gazette () ran the 1st advertisement of bookseller James Rivington (1724–1802) of London, UK, who had opened ’s 1st retail bookshop in Halifax “next Door to Mr. Manning nigh the [Grand] Parade”.
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Some : French lawyer & author Marc Lescarbot (d.1641) (‘ML’) had a client involved in an expedition to Acadia, New France. He invited ML, who accepted. 1606 July: They reached Port Royal (now in )… with ML’s in tow: the 1st known library* in what is now .

  • Depending on your definition of ‘library’, of course. Let’s say, ‘Lescarbot’s books are regarded as the first known collection of European-style codices in what is now Canada’.
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