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The Canadian Quaker Library and Archives is located at Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario, and is managed by a committee of Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Access is by appointment.

The Arthur Garratt Dorland Reference Library holds over 5000 titles of books, journals, newspapers and pamphlets dating from the late 1600s to today. It also holds the Rendell Rhoades Discipline Collection, an extensive collection of Quaker Books of Discipline (Society of Friends’ organization and practice).

The Archives include the records of the Yearly Meeting and its constituent Meetings and various committees since the mid 1700s. It also includes photographs of places, persons and events, the personal papers of various Canadian Quakers, and a few artifacts.