Cultural centre to house the Colin Rickards book collection
Late journalist's Caribbean books come to Bathurst Street By Stephen Weir Colin (l), Stephen Weir (m) and Craigg Slowly (r) Toronto bookstore owner Itah Sadu is busy organizing hundreds of books that have just been donated to her Different Booklist Cultural Centre on Bathurst Street in preparation for the unveiling later this month of the Colin Rickards Collection. Rickards, a tireless reporter and columnist for the Caribbean Camera, suffered a fatal heart attack at his East York home eight years ago, just month before his 74th birthday. “Colin was voracious reader and a book collector of all things Caribbean,” Sadu told the Caribbean Camera. “ The oldest book in this collection dates back to 1896. He had a real interest in all aspects of the Caribbean from the Indo presence to the Chinese presence to the Afro presence. This is probably the most complete library of the Diaspora culture in the city.” Apart from coll