Librairie Laliberté - The Social Eyes

A Tobacconist’s, A Book, A Meeting Place

10/31/2025 The Social Eyes 0

By Oumou Diakité The bookstore Librairie La Liberté is first and foremost a family story. Its roots are in Granby, where it opened in 1945. The grandfather, Lucius Laliberté, owned a tobacco store with his wife Denise. His son, with business training, decided to add […] See more

Neighborhood Bookstores: A Vanishing Species?

09/19/2025 The Social Eyes 0

By Oumou Diakité While Amazon redefines our book buying habits, and giants like Renaud-Bray extend their empires, neighborhood bookstores find themselves at a crossroads. Slim profit margins, high rents, increasingly volatile readers: several elements signal a delicate rebalancing of the literary landscape. Books still get […] See more