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Libraries · Algonquin Highlands

Algonquin Highlands’s public library is Haliburton County Public Library - Stanhope Branch

From the centre of Algonquin Highlands, it is 3.5 km away. No library board reports for Algonquin Highlands alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

B−Civic life#252 of 866 in Ontario
Libraries
1
Charities
4
1.4 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Algonquin Highlands’s civic life grade

Algonquin Highlands gets a B− for civic life, #252 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Algonquin Highlands has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Algonquin Highlands’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Algonquin Highlands mailing addresses hold 4 registered charities

Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.4; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

32.1%

Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Algonquin Highlands’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Algonquin Highlands.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.

Questions about the library and civic life in Algonquin Highlands

Does Algonquin Highlands have a public library?

Yes: Haliburton County Public Library - Stanhope Branch.

Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.

Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).