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"The Mechanics’ Institute." It sounded like a training school for those interested in gears, cogs, and motors and their workings, perhaps a hands-on facility for blue-collar workers. In the early to mid-1800s, the Mechanics’ Institute in Canada was something quite different, a white-collar membership association with Victorian overtones. The aim of the Mechanics’ Institute was “to see the instruction of its members in the arts and in the various branches of science and useful knowledge,” said Reverend Esson in 1828, quoted by the Atwater Library and Computer Centre in “History of the Mechanics Institute of Montreal.”

Learning, Yes; Loafing, No

Offering lectures and speakers, weekly meetings and reading rooms, the Institute encouraged continuing education. Libraries of trade and interest books, magazines, periodicals, newspapers and other reading materials were an integral part of the Mechanics’ Institutes.

Encompassing Victorian attitudes, members caused debate by showing more interest in “newspapers and popular fiction rather than the works of science, art and religion promoted by institute directors,” according to Chad Gaffield in the “Mechanics’ Institutes” entry of The Canadian Encyclopedia. Certain states of decorum also had to be met. Aimlessly loitering about or committing the vulgar act of spitting caused the member to be forcibly removed.

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