Photo: Squirrelwhisperer · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer loans per person served than 93% of Ontario’s town libraries: Edwardsburgh Cardinal Public Library lends 1.9
Edwardsburgh Cardinal Public Library serves 7,505 people from 2 branches. It counted 1.5 in-person visits per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
CCivic life#688 of 866 in OntarioCardinal’s civic life grade, input by input
Cardinal gets a C for civic life, #688 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Cardinal has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
12 registered charities give a Cardinal mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.5; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 210 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Edwardsburgh Cardinal Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
2 public libraries in Cardinal
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Cardinal.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cardinal
Does Cardinal have a public library?
Yes, 2: Edwardsburgh Cardinal Public Library - Cardinal Branch and Edwardsburgh Cardinal Public Library - Spencerville Branch.
How busy is Edwardsburgh Cardinal Public Library?
10,920 in-person visits and 14,171 items borrowed in 2024.
Library statistics: Ontario Public Library Statistics, 2024. 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).