Welcome to the Rural Municipality of Kingston’s newly revamped website. We have set a goal to keep our website up to date, so please visit regularly to find new updated information related to our Municipality as it becomes available. It’s a work in progress and any feedback on how we can make the site more relevant to residents would be most helpful.
The Rural Municipality of Kingston comprises 4 Communities that came together in 1974 to become the Kingston CIC, then the Community of Kingston and now the Rural Municipality of Kingston. The goal of this site is to help keep residents informed about what is happening in the area and with the Council itself. The site is also a place where potential residents can find more information about the area and, hopefully, encouragement to become members of our community.

Council has worked hard over the past 30 plus years to help make our Municipality a better place to live. In 2012 after two years of work, our Official Plan was adopted giving us a greater say over how Development would take place within our Municipality.  Over the past three years (2023-25) council has worked hard to have our new Official Plan and Development Bylaw approved.  After 10 plus years working with the original plan and bylaw, we've learned a lot and the new plan and development bylaw will better serve the community for the next 10 or more years.

We also took over ownership of the Emyvale Rec Centre in September 2024 from the non-profit group, Emyvale Rec Centre Inc. which has owned and operated the centre over the past number of decades.  This change was to ensure the long term viability of the centre and to allow us to seek provincial and federal resources to improve and maintain the centre.  The Emyvale Rec Centre Inc. continues to be the operator of the centre and we work with them to ensure current services are maintained and with goal of making the centre a busier place with more community events and programs available for the residents.  They also run and maintain our community ball field and walking track behind the Rec Centre.  Community centres are only as successful as residents make them.  Feel free to reach out to us if you have a wish to contribute both with your time and ideas for the community.

We’ve also worked to support recreational opportunities by being a member of the Communities 13 group as well as helping to fund the recent improvements to the Emyvale Ball Field and Walking track.

We also established an Emergency Measure Organization (EMO) and we’ve supplied emergency backup generators to the Emyvale Rec Centre as well as the North River 4H club in Kingston.   An emergency warming centre is available at the Emyvale Rec centre and we've also entered a lease agreement with the 4H Club should additional services to the residents be deemed necessary.  The need for such facilities became very apparent with our recent emergency caused by Hurricane Fiona. The newly formed EMO group and the community came together to support one another which was very much the silver lining in what was a difficult time for so many of our residents.

We have also taken advantage of the opportunity to invest in our community through the Gas Tax Program. In doing so we were able to extend the Fibre Op Backbone project funded by the Province and Bell, to include a great percentage of our community. And we are continuing to work to have the remainder of our Municipality connected as soon as we can. Kingston’s Connectivity make it an attractive place to live and gives our residents opportunities that would be limited with-out this essential service.

We continue to seek new ways to improve our community and welcome ideas, input and assistance from residents who wish to contribute.