The nearest public library to Chisholm is East Ferris Public Library, 11 km away

After it comes Powassan & District Union Public Library (Powassan), 12 km away. No library board reports for Chisholm alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

CCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

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Civic life grade

Behind Chisholm’s civic life grade

Civic life in Chisholm grades C. Chisholm has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Chisholm’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own CCharities0 per 1,000 · Ontario towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁺Volunteering32.1% of residents · all of Ontario, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

No registered charity gives a Chisholm mailing address

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.

Volunteering

32.1%

One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The closest is 11 km from Chisholm

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

11kmEast Ferris Public LibraryEast FerrisDirections →12kmPowassan & District Union Public LibraryPowassanWebsite →18kmCallander Public LibraryCallanderDirections →30kmNorth Bay Public LibraryNorth BayDirections →34kmPhelps Public LibraryNipissing, Unorganized, North PartDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.

Questions about the library and civic life in Chisholm

Does Chisholm have a public library?

Not in Chisholm: the nearest public library is East Ferris Public Library, in East Ferris.

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).