Visit The Old House Museum in Frontenac Islands
27 of the 36 places to visit in and around Frontenac Islands are museums or galleries. Look within 5 km of its edge and the list grows by 35 beyond the one inside Frontenac Islands’ municipal boundary. Visits to Arthur Child Heritage Museum of the 1000 Islands run to about 30K a year. Of the places on our list, 4 are looked after by Parks Canada.
What Frontenac Islands is known for
National park · Parks CanadaThousand Islands National Park600 m outside town, to the northeast
FortFort Frontenac3.4 km outside town, to the west
CathedralCathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception3.7 km outside town, to the west
FortFort Henry2.8 km outside town, to the west
Museum · Parks CanadaBellevue House3.8 km outside town, to the westEach has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
Where they are
The dashed line is Frontenac Islands’ municipal boundary; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistics Canada 2021 outline
The list by type
Green: inside Frontenac Islands. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Run by Parks Canada: Thousand Islands National Park, Bellevue House, Cedar Island Cathcart Tower and Shoal Tower.
All of them, one by one
2Thousand Islands National Park
Protected area in Ontario, Canada.
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception
Catholic cathedral in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Fort Henry
Historic fort and National historic Site of Canada.
7International Hockey Hall of Fame
Museum in Kingston, Ontario.
8Cedar Island Cathcart Tower
Martello Tower in Thousand Islands National Park, Canada.
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10Shoal Tower
Martello Tower located in the harbour of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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12Ann Baillie Building
Residential building in Kingston, Canada.
13Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Art museum in Ontario, Canada; part of Queen's University in Kingston.
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15Murney Tower
Defensive tower built to protect Kingston, Ontario from American threats.
16Military Communications and Electronics Museum
Military museum in Kingston, Ontario.
17St. George's Cathedral
Church in Ontario, Canada.
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20Museum of Health Care at Kingston
Museum in Kingston, Ontario.
The one inside Frontenac Islands comes first, then the places within 5 km, close and well known first. Provincial and city parks are on the Outdoors page instead.
Historic places in Frontenac Islands → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Frontenac Islands →
What people ask about Frontenac Islands
Does Frontenac Islands have a museum?
Yes, International Hockey Hall of Fame, Kingston Dry Dock and Ann Baillie Building, all in Frontenac Islands or within 5 km.
Is there a Parks Canada property near Frontenac Islands?
Yes. In or within 5 km of Frontenac Islands, some places on this list are in the care of Parks Canada, as the By kind chart shows.
How is this list made?
We merge OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Statistics Canada’s ODCAF and the heritage registers into one list of museums, galleries, historic sites, forts, lighthouses, gardens, parks, waterfalls, ski hills, zoos and theme parks. To count, a historic building must show it takes visitors (hours, a fee, a website, a heritage operator or a Wikipedia article); hotels, restaurants and tours are dropped. Places inside the town’s 2021 outline come first, then those up to 5 km beyond it.
Places to visit: Canada publishes no open tourism list, so this one is assembled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), Statistics Canada’s ODCAF museums and galleries (2020, Open Government Licence – Canada), the federal and Québec heritage registers and CPCAD’s national parks, and it reflects what mappers and editors have recorded. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches count only with a sign that visitors are welcome. Places sit in each town’s 2021 census outline; visitor counts are Wikidata’s latest, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (19)
- Thousand Islands National Park: Shroha, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fort Frontenac: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception: SoftwareSimian (changes by Rabanus Flavus ), CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fort Henry: McCarthy Aero Service Ltd., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bellevue House: Skeezix1000, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- International Hockey Hall of Fame: Flibirigit, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cedar Island Cathcart Tower: Clayton MacLeod, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Child Heritage Museum of the 1000 Islands: Pierre André, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shoal Tower: Preeteesh Singh, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kingston Dry Dock: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ann Baillie Building: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Agnes Etherington Art Centre: KingstonianW, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fort Frederick: Martin St-Amant, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Murney Tower: Carlb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Military Communications and Electronics Museum: cygk, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St. George's Cathedral: SimonP, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Royal Military College of Canada Museum: Martin St-Amant, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kingston Penitentiary: P199, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kingston General Hospital: P199, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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).