Library

Location and hours of operation

236 Shackleton Street, Dutton ON N0L 1J0

• Monday, Tuesday & Thursday - 9:00am - 7:00pm
• Wednesday - CLOSED
• Friday - 9:00am - 5:00pm
• Saturday - 10:00am - 2:00pm
• Sundays - CLOSED

Contact information

Telephone (519) 762-2780 or email: duttonlib@elgin.ca

For more information, visit Elgin County Library.

John Kenneth Galbraith Library 

Proudly named after John Kenneth Galbraith, who was born in 1908 in Iona Station and served as economic adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson. Under President Roosevelt, he organized and administered the system of wartime price controls. John Galbraith was a former professor, close friend and early supporter of President Kennedy.

During his position as adviser to President Johnson, he helped refine the Great Society program.  The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda  to provide aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Congress rapidly enacted Johnson's recommendations. Millions of elderly people found assistance through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act.  John Galbraith helped shape the study of liberal American economics in the twentieth century.

John Galbraith wrote dozens of books mostly about economy, but he also wrote a fictional book titled "The Scotch" about growing up Scottish in Southern Ontario which represents a journey into a culture many of us can now enjoy.