Almost all of the books & materials found at our community bookshelves are donated by community members!
Book Donations
We are currently accepting donations of gently used or new books:
~ Children’s and teen’s books (fiction and non-fiction)
~ Pet & animal themed books
We are unable to accept donations of other books at this time due to storage limitations. Thank you!
Would you like to make a donation toward a Lakes Literacy program?
We accept cheque or cash donations.
Cheques must be made payable to School District 91 with a memo for Lakes Literacy.
Mailing Address:
Lakes Literacy c/o Ellie Jones
PO Box 103, Burns Lake, B.C. V0J 1E0
Phone: (250) 251-7424
We would like to thank the following organizations and agencies for making our programs possible:
- Province of British Columbia Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Decoda Literacy Solutions for their ongoing financial support for Literacy Outreach Coordination services!
- School District 91 Bus Transportation and Maintenance Department for keeping the W.O.W. Bus on the road until its retirement in June 2023!
- School District 91 staff for their administrative/budget support and for the use of our literacy storage room in Muriel Mould Neighbourhood Learning Centre!
- Burns Lake Public Library for their partnership in literacy initiatives!
- Bulkley Valley Credit Union for financial support of StoryWalks and the W.O.W. Bus program!
- Burns Lake Community Forest for financial support of the W.O.W. Bus program!
- Burns Lake Rotary Club for financial support of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program!
- Children First and Success by 6 for financial support through the Lakes District Early Childhood Development Committee!
- Burns Lake & District Community Foundation for the funding to support the Southside W.O.W. Bus service!
Past Financial Support/Donations:
Bulkley Valley Credit Union
Burns Lake Community Forest
Chinook Community Forest
Burns Lake & District Community Foundation
Pacific Northern Gas
Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako
Rotary Club of Burns Lake
Michels Canada
Community Members
Thank-you to all the residents who have donated books, games, puzzles & stuffed animals for our literacy outreach work!