Freedom to Read Week, February 20-26

Freedom To Read Week is celebrated in Canada every year to "encourage Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms." Censorship occurs when anyone but the justice system attempts to enforce limits on what a person can or cannot read. Furthermore, included in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is this statement: “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms . . . thought, belief, opinion and expression.”

I have put together a display of books contained in the PRHS library that were either challenged (one or more persons wanted the book off library shelves or out of classrooms) or banned (those persons challenging the book succeeded) in the past decade in Canada or the United States, one even within Nova Scotia. Below is a virtual display of those books.

For more information about book censorship in Canada, explore the Freedom To Read Week website.

PRHS's freedom-to-read-week book montage

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