Library book returned 110 years late just fine

BROCKVILLE, Ont. – An overdue library book with a storied past has been returned to its home in this eastern Ontario city 110 years late.

Though the book's fine would total more than $9,000, the 83-year-old American man who returned it to a museum south of Ottawa Wednesday isn't being forced to pay up.

Dale Fenton Baird Sr., of Denver, Colo., handed the nearly 13 centimetre-thick Webster's dictionary over to Lyn Heritage Place Museum, near Brockville, on Wednesday.

His great uncle Mutt borrowed the book from Lyn Public Library in 1899.

The entire Baird family moved from the village of Lyn, a hamlet about 8 kilometres southwest of Brockville, to New York state in the winter of 1899.

The leather-bound book, still in good condition despite having once been pulled across an ice-covered St. Lawrence River on a skid, was discovered in Baird's sister's home.

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