Just outside Brockville, along Highway 29 and County Road 29, Habitat for Humanity 1000 Islands operates a ReStore that serves shoppers and donors from Elizabethtown-Kitley township and the surrounding Thousand Islands and Leeds and Grenville region. The store is open every day of the week from 9am to 5pm, a schedule that is more generous than many charity resale shops manage, and it stocks a mix of donated building supplies and furniture that varies with whatever comes through the donation bay that week: lumber, doors, cabinetry, appliances, lighting, tools, and household furnishings among the more common finds.
The 1000 Islands affiliate actually runs two ReStores rather than one, with a second location in Kemptville giving residents further north in the service area a closer option, so the Highway 29 store outside Brockville is best understood as the flagship of a small two-store network covering a largely rural stretch of eastern Ontario. Because the townships and communities around Brockville, including Elizabethtown-Kitley, do not otherwise have a dedicated large-format secondhand building supply outlet, the ReStore fills a genuine gap for area renovators and budget-conscious furniture shoppers who would otherwise have to drive well into the city for comparable selection.
Volunteers are central to how the store runs day to day, handling everything from testing donated electronics to make sure they still work, to merchandising the sales floor, to working the cash registers, and the organization actively recruits both regular and occasional volunteers rather than relying on a small paid staff. That volunteer-driven model keeps overhead low, which matters directly to shoppers, since it allows the ReStore to sell donated goods at a steep discount to retail while still generating meaningful proceeds for Habitat for Humanity 1000 Islands’ core mission of building affordable, owner-occupied homes for local families.
The organization describes its ReStores as pivotal to its ongoing fundraising, and in a service area as geographically spread out as Leeds and Grenville, that retail revenue does more work than donations alone typically could. Every dresser, window, or box of tile sold at the Brockville-area store effectively subsidizes construction costs for a Habitat build elsewhere in the region, so a routine furniture purchase carries a tangible local impact beyond the transaction itself. For anyone renovating a rural property, furnishing a first home, or simply looking to buy secondhand rather than pay full retail for building materials, the ReStore’s daily hours and rural highway location make it an easy stop.
Donors clearing out a garage, finishing a renovation, or downsizing a household can drop items directly at the Highway 29 location, and the range of accepted goods, from raw building materials to finished furniture, is broader than what a typical clothing-and-housewares thrift store will take. In short, the Habitat for Humanity 1000 Islands ReStore near Brockville is a daily-open, donation-supplied furniture and building-materials outlet serving Elizabethtown-Kitley and the wider Thousand Islands region, with every sale funding affordable housing construction for local families.
