Photo: Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0No public library stands in Lake City: the closest, Cameron, is 2.8 km away
The library figures on this page are Burnaby’s: Burnaby Public Library serves all 299,682 people of the city, Lake City among them. Visits ran to 5.1 per person served in 2025. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaLake City’s civic life grade, input by input
Lake City gets a B for civic life, #156 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Lake City.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Burnaby mailing addresses hold 365 registered charities
There is no count for Lake City on its own: the charities are those of all of Burnaby. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; the median is 1.2 for British Columbia towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in British Columbia at 36.9% in 2023, somewhere between 35.2% and 38.7%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Per person served, against the 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 4,225 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Burnaby Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 2.8 km from Lake City
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lake City.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lake City
Does Lake City have a public library?
No, but Cameron in Lougheed is the nearest public library to Lake City.
How busy is Burnaby Public Library?
It counted 1,541,976 in-person visits in 2025.
Library statistics: BC Public Libraries Statistics, 2025. 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).