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Opening Hours

Registration Desk (Ground floor)

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays

Reference Rooms (2nd floor)

Reference Services Room
Reference Collection Room

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays

Jacob M. Lowy Collection Room (2nd floor)

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays

Textual Documents Consultation Room (3rd floor)

Restricted Documents Consultation Room
Audiovisual Documents Consultation Room
Microforms Consultation Room
Self-Serve Digital Copying Room

8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays
12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday

Special Collections Consultation Room (3rd floor)

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays
Consultation of unpublished material is by appointment only

Canadian Genealogy Centre (3rd floor)

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays
12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday

Telephone or TTY

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays

Exhibition Rooms (Ground floor)

9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., daily

Note that staff assistance is available in all these rooms from

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays

All research facilities are closed on statutory holidays.