No public library stands in McDougall: the closest, Parry Sound Public Library, is 12 km away

After it comes Rosseau Library (Seguin), 40 km away.

No figures to show. The 2024 statistics list McDougall, Municipality of public library, but without visits, loans or cards for it.

Civic life grade

Behind McDougall’s civic life grade

McDougall gets a C for civic life, #709 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. McDougall has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

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

D⁻Library visits0 per resident · Ontario towns 4.5 B⁺Charities1 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

McDougall mailing addresses hold 3 registered charities

That is 1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%

In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 12 km from McDougall

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of McDougall.

12kmParry Sound Public LibraryParry SoundDirections →40kmRosseau LibrarySeguinDirections →53kmMuskoka Lakes LibraryMuskoka LakesWebsite →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.

Questions about the library and civic life in McDougall

Does McDougall have a public library?

The map shows none in McDougall; Parry Sound Public Library, in Parry Sound, is the closest.

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).