The nearest public library to Slave Lake is Kinuso Library, 42 km away

After it comes Smith Library (Lesser Slave River No. 124), 49 km away. No library board reports for Slave Lake alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

B⁺Civic life#61 of 474 in Alberta

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Civic life grade

What Slave Lake’s civic life grade weighs

Slave Lake gets a B+ for civic life, #61 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Slave Lake has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

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Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Slave Lake’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own B⁻Charities3.3 per 1,000 · Alberta towns 1.3 · Canada 1.4 AVolunteering37.1% of residents · all of Alberta, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

24 registered charities give a Slave Lake mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.3; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

37.1%

Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 37.1% of Alberta’s people in 2023, give or take (35.1% to 39.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 42 km from Slave Lake

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Slave Lake.

42kmKinuso LibraryBig Lakes CountyDirections →49kmSmith LibraryLesser Slave River No. 124Directions →

How to read these numbers

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 Slave Lake

Does Slave Lake have a public library?

There isn’t one in Slave Lake; people there use libraries such as Kinuso Library, in Big Lakes County.

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).