• The Shut-In Home Delivery Service to housebound members by library volunteers
• Regular volunteer-lead discussion groups, on topics of interest and current events, which take place in four local seniors’ residences
• Animation assistance, by library volunteers, with many library events courses, and programs offered both inside the library and beyond its wall out in the community.

The ‘Tell Your Own Story’ project is a new initiative created in order to help bridge the gap between seniors and teenagers living within the Côte Saint-Luc community and brought together by the library they all love.

Teen volunteer conducting Your Story interviews with Côte Saint-Luc residents.

A small group of bright and curious local teens have really stepped up over the past year in order to gather and put together a beautiful collection of the life stories of seniors from the area. The one-on-one interviews with our group of local seniors were conducted over the course of several days, and the result was a special collection, so unique and interesting that we felt that these stories just had to be shared with the entire community.

These stories span across decades and continents and range in topics from surviving the holocaust, to growing up in an orphanage, and even starting the first local synagogue in Côte Saint-Luc. They remind us that amazing people; ordinary heroes, and inspirational survivors are all around us and that the lessons they have to share are priceless and continue to be relevant today and always. We hope that they touch the spirits and lift the hearts of all who read them. Click on the following stories to learn more. Interviews conducted by our teen volunteer, Jennifer.