Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Champlain Township Public Library lends 2.6 items per person served, fewer than 84% of Ontario’s town libraries
Champlain Township Public Library has one location for the 8,665 people it serves. In 2024 it logged 2.9 visits for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
CCivic life#756 of 866 in OntarioBehind Vankleek Hill’s civic life grade
Vankleek Hill gets a C for civic life, #756 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Vankleek Hill has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
24 registered charities give a Vankleek Hill mailing address
It works out to 2.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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.
32.1%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 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 479 visits
The year 2024 at Champlain Township Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Vankleek Hill’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Vankleek Hill, as the crow flies.















What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Vankleek Hill
Does Vankleek Hill have a public library?
Yes: Champlain Township Public Library.
How busy is Champlain Township Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 24,908 visits in person and 22,380 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).