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Frontenac Islands, Frontenac County, Eastern Ontario, Ontario, Canada (2025-04-12-03-13-26 UMBRA-09)Photo: Umbra Lab, Inc. · CC BY 4.0
Libraries · Frontenac Islands

Kingston Frontenac Public Library - Howe Island and Kingston Frontenac Public Library - Wolfe Island Branch are Frontenac Islands’s two public libraries

Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Frontenac Islands in particular.

C+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering
DirectionsLibrary websiteAll its libraries
Libraries
2
Charities
0
0 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Frontenac Islands’s civic life grade

Frontenac Islands gets a C+ for civic life. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Frontenac Islands, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Frontenac Islands’s overall grade.
–Library visitsNo library board of its ownC+Charities0 per 1,000 · Ontario towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4C+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 Frontenac Islands mailing address

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%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

2 public libraries in Frontenac Islands

In order of distance from the centre of Frontenac Islands, as the crow flies.

6.3kmKingston Frontenac Public Library - Howe IslandWebsite →7.6kmKingston Frontenac Public Library - Wolfe Island BranchWebsite →
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 Frontenac Islands

Does Frontenac Islands have a public library?

Yes, 2: Kingston Frontenac Public Library - Howe Island and Kingston Frontenac Public Library - Wolfe Island 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).