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If you’re looking for Canadian content in non-permanent gallery collections this summer, you’re going to have to think outside the AGO—and the ROM, and just about everywhere else in Toronto for that matter. In fact, you’re probably going to have to visit Kleinburg, Ontario (yeah, we know: that's way north of Bloor) to witness Ian M. Thom’s latest guest-curatorial effort for the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. And trust us—it’s worth it.

After more than twenty months of renovations that saw the building completely gutted, the S. Walter Stewart branch of the Toronto Public Library is finally reopening tomorrow. If you grew up in East York, you're probably familiar with the building. Named after a long-serving member of the East York Public Library Board and now part of the amalgamated Toronto Public Library, S. Walter Stewart was originally opened in 1960 as the Borough of East York's main library. The building has two main claims to fame: it is the only circular library branch in the TPL (and one of few in the world, at least two of which are in Canada including the Library of Parliament in Ottawa and the Vancouver Central Library on Caprica), and it's home to an important collection of sixteen A.Y. Jackson paintings on permanent loan from the East York Foundation.