About

We chose Parry Sound to open a book shop because we were cottagers and decided this would be a place where we could raise our family, work for ourselves and still get to Queen Street for that urban fix when necessary. In the spring of 1988 we registered the business and built an addition to our home that housed Parry Sound Books for the first five years. When the Beatty family restored and renovated the William Beatty Building in the downtown they invited us to become tenants. It seemed like a good idea – the children were a little older and more independent. Alan was happy to have the book shop location for an enlarged studio, and the move to the downtown meant increased space, staff and increased tourist trade. It has become the home of our business and a fixture in downtown Parry Sound.

After a fire in the Beatty Building the night of 31 May 2020 we were forced to move the bookshop back into our home - for a year. We spent the Pandemic Year waiting for the world to return to some sort of normal and our business to return to the Beatty Building - were you will now find us - in the past and future home of Parry Sound Books.

THE BEATTY BUILDING

26 JAMES STREET

PARRY SOUND, ONTARIO P2A 1T5

FALL & WINTER HOURS

MONDAY to SATURDAY

9:30 AM – 5 PM

SUMMER HOURS

IN JULY & AUGUST

MONDAY - SUNDAY

9:30 AM - 5 PM

SUNDAYS 11 - 4

PHONE 705-746-7625