Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Canada's Smallest Library is Three Rivers’s public library
It sits 5.3 km from the centre of Three Rivers. Without open library statistics on Prince Edward Island, the page names Three Rivers’s libraries but shows no visits or loans.
A+Civic life#1 of 12 in Prince Edward IslandThree Rivers’s civic life grade, input by input
Three Rivers gets a A+ for civic life, #1 of 12 towns graded in Prince Edward Island. Three Rivers has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
44 registered charities give a Three Rivers mailing address
That is 4.7 per 1,000 residents, against 0.7 in the typical Prince Edward Island 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.
40.3%
The 2023 survey gives Prince Edward Island one volunteering rate for all its towns, 40.3% (between 36.8% and 43.9%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Three Rivers’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Three Rivers.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Three Rivers
Does Three Rivers have a public library?
Yes: Canada's Smallest Library.
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).