Photo: Kiyoteru Awaji · CC BY 4.0No public library stands in Glengarry: the closest, Worsley And District Public Library, is 2.7 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Glengarry among them. Its borrowers took out 8.8 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Glengarry’s civic life grade
Glengarry gets a B for civic life, #237 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Glengarry 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.
1,638 registered charities are based in Edmonton, by mailing address
There is no count for Glengarry on its own: the charities are those of all of Edmonton. It works out to 1.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Alberta as a whole: 37.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.1% and 39.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 9,532 visits a day
Everything counted at Edmonton Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 2.7 km from Glengarry
In order of distance from the centre of Glengarry, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Glengarry
Does Glengarry have a public library?
Glengarry has none mapped; the closest public library is Worsley And District Public Library, in Alberta Avenue.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
Its 2022 report counts 3,479,257 visits in person and 8,578,865 items lent.
Library statistics: Alberta public library statistics, 2022. 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).