1989年，布賴恩·斯彭斯，從多倫多橫渡大西洋，令他的修道院書店變成國際化的觀眾。修道院書店在巴黎的拉丁區, 在過去的二十年成為加拿大人在巴黎的一種文化.

In 1989, Brian Spence, who hails from Toronto, crossed the Atlantic to bring his Abbey Bookshop to an international audience. The Abbey Bookshop in Paris’s Latin Quarter has for the last twenty years become a cultural epicenter for Canadians, Anglophones and Anglophiles from all corners of the world