These 360 volumes, plus a federal grant of $160, were the starting blocks for the first actual public library in Brampton, founded in 1887 in the Golding Building on Queen Street.

Records show donations to 1700 libraries, and the hundreds of facilities across the continent still bearing his name are living proof.

Despite being a supporter of culture in general, Carnegie was opposed to the multipurpose facility the village intended to build, as it exceeded his default start-up donation of $10,000.

As the reference branch, Chinguacousy was host to an extensive collection of microfilm, local history materials, and genealogy resources.

In addition to the six regular branches, Brampton Library also operated an interim site in the north-east region of the city.

This housed a very small collection, mostly DVDs and paperbacks, as well as allowing customers a location at which to pick up and return items.

A new full-service location at Torbram and Sandlewood, one kilometre north of the former North-East Interim site, is planned to start providing services to residents in the surrounding area in 2017.

[9] Brampton was the first public library system in Ontario to acquire federal and provincial case law records.

The case law collection was opened in this branch in 1978, on the prompt of the Central Ontario Regional Library System.

[11][12] This branch removed to Chinguacousy Park in 2023 due to Toronto Metropolitan University's (TMU) new medical school after city council voted to gift the building.

[18] When former Brampton High School principal William James Fenton died in 1952, it was decided that the proposed addition to the structure would be named in his honour.