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Libraries · Vulcan County

Carmangay And District Municipal Library is Vulcan County’s public library

It stands 30 km from the centre of Vulcan County. No library board reports for Vulcan County alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

ACivic life#23 of 474 in Alberta
Libraries
1
Charities
13
2.9 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Vulcan County’s civic life grade

Vulcan County gets a A for civic life, #23 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Vulcan County, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.

A
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Vulcan County’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

13 registered charities are based in Vulcan County, by mailing address

That is 2.9 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.

Volunteering

37.1%

The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Vulcan County’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Vulcan County, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.

Questions about the library and civic life in Vulcan County

Does Vulcan County have a public library?

Yes: Carmangay And District Municipal 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).