Photo: P. James Franks · CC BY-SA 3.0Temiskaming Shores has no public library of its own; the nearest is Bibliothèque de Notre-Dame-du-Nord, 19 km away
The population Temiskaming Shores public library serves is 9,634. Its borrowers took out 3.9 items per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B+Civic life#8 of 866 in OntarioBehind Temiskaming Shores’s civic life grade
With a B+, Temiskaming Shores ranks #8 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Temiskaming Shores.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Temiskaming Shores mailing addresses hold 48 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 4.7; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 766 visits
What Temiskaming Shores public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 19 km from Temiskaming Shores
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Temiskaming Shores.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Temiskaming Shores
Does Temiskaming Shores have a public library?
There isn’t one in Temiskaming Shores; people there use libraries such as Bibliothèque de Notre-Dame-du-Nord, in Notre-Dame-du-Nord.
How busy is Temiskaming Shores public library?
Its 2024 report counts 39,832 visits in person and 37,514 items lent.
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).